Data Scientist, People Analytics

20 Hours ago • 3 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Data Scientist, you'll be part of the People Analytics team, applying advanced analytics to address talent challenges. You will build models, conduct research, and drive business impact by predicting talent acquisition, development, and retention. You will also work on quantifying employee experience, optimizing team performance, maximizing productivity, and rethinking talent measurement. Human capital problems require particular attention to sample size impacts, covariance, selection bias, modeling choices, and other issues that can be the difference between highly meaningful & impactful results, and noise. In this role, you will leverage structured problem solving approaches and data science skills to identify and deliver high impact solutions, as well as develop unique data science skills and human-capital expertise.
Must have:
  • 3+ years of experience in people analytics, HR or workforce planning
  • Expert proficiency in Python or R, and SQL
  • Experience in building and deploying machine learning models
  • Experience with statistical analysis and experimental design
  • Strong project management and communication skills
Good to have:
  • Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with Organizational Network Analysis
  • Experience in visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI)
  • Experience with natural language processing and unstructured data analysis
  • Track record of publishing or presenting analytical work

Job Details

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

At Motive, our People Analytics team sits at the intersection of data science and talent strategy, transforming how we understand and enhance organizational performance.  As a Data Scientist on our rapidly growing team, you'll leverage advanced analytics to tackle our most pressing talent challenges and drive measurable business impact.

Role Description

You'll pioneer the application of data science to human capital, building sophisticated models and research that decode organizational behavior and shape Motive's talent strategy. Your work will span critical areas including:

  • Predicting and enhancing talent acquisition, development, and retention
  • Quantifying and elevating employee experience
  • Optimizing team performance 
  • Maximizing productivity
  • Rethinking how we measure talent

Human capital problems require particular attention to sample size impacts, covariance, selection bias, modeling choices, and other issues that can be the difference between highly meaningful & impactful results, and noise.  In this role, you will leverage structured problem solving approaches and data science skills to identify and deliver high impact solutions, as well as develop unique data science skills and human-capital expertise.

The Ideal Candidate is:

  • Passionate about human capital: You are excited by the value we can add to our company and our employees, and are inspired to help make a large positive impact
  • Innovative. You continually research and evaluate emerging technologies. You stay current on published state-of-the-art methods, technologies, and applications and seek out opportunities to apply them.
  • Creative. You thrive on bringing definition to big, undefined problems. You love asking questions and pushing hard to find answers. You’re not afraid to share a new idea.
  • Technical. You’re comfortable with open-source languages and are passionate about developing further. You have hands-on experience developing data science solutions using open-source tools and cloud computing platforms.
  • Statistically-minded. You’ve built models, validated them, and backtested them. You know how to interpret a confusion matrix or a ROC curve. You have experience with network analysis, clustering, classification, time series, and sentiment analysis.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field
  • Background in organizational psychology or behavioral economics
  • 3+ years of experience applying advanced analytics in people analytics, HR, or workforce planning
  • Expert proficiency in Python or R, and SQL
  • Proven track record of building and deploying machine learning models
  • Experience with statistical analysis, experimental design, and causal inference
  • Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to lead complex analytical initiatives
  • Excellent communication skills - ability to translate complex analyses into actionable insights for diverse stakeholders

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience with Organizational Network Analysis
  • Experience in visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI)
  • Experience with natural language processing and unstructured data analysis
  • Track record of publishing or presenting analytical work
  • Familiarity with HR systems and people data structures



Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

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The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

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About The Company

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. We serve more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, agriculture, trucking and logistics, delivery, and more.


At Motive, we are committed to building a company that creates products customers love and fostering a culture that enables people to do their best work. We are looking for people from all backgrounds who want to make an impact on the millions of businesses that power the physical economy.


Please visit gomotive.com or email us at feedback@gomotive.com for more info.

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