Job Openings Research Associate

About the job Research Associate

About:

Our partner organization is a human-centric AI company that delivers the deepest understanding of human behaviour to power better health for all.

It is a Public Benefit Corporation building the worlds most comprehensive and insightful AI-powered socio-behavioral data platform. They uncover the unseen drivers of health - peoples beliefs, barriers, and behaviours - and transform that intelligence into scalable products that enable healthcare organizations to drive impact, reduce costs, and advance equity.

Role and Responsibilites:

  • Own the end-to-end quality of survey data, from raw inputs to analysis-ready datasets.
  • Ensure preprocessing, coding, and transformations are accurate, consistent, and reproducible.
  • Ensure metadata is complete, accurate, and trusted by downstream users.
  • Identify and resolve data quality issues before they impact analyses or products.
  • Establish scalable data quality checks and standards as our survey footprint grows.
  • Identify ways to streamline processing, including experimenting with AI tools.
  • Enable faster, more confident research by making data quality a solved problem.

About you:

  • Masters degree or higher in a relevant domain (e.g. psychology, economics, social science, healthcare, epidemiology).
  • Understand the fundamentals of survey design and survey statistics.
  • Experience working with survey data, cleaning messy data sets, creating variables, and handling metadata.
  • Exceptional attention to detail and a strong instinct for data quality issues.
  • Comfortable working with complex, imperfect, real-world datasets.
  • Basic analytical skills (Python preferred)
  • Able to balance speed and rigor in a fast-moving environment - we are a startup so we need you to be flexible and fast.
  • Strong command of English to enable good internal communication and metadata accuracy
  • Clear and proactive communicator who documents decisions and flags risks early.

Location: India-based, ideally in Delhi NCR

Benefits:

  • Working with fantastic incredibly passionate and smart colleagues, and the opportunity to solve tough challenges in healthcare
  • Ability to be entrepreneurial and tremendous opportunities for growth
  • Public Benefit Corporation with an impact and equity mission
  • Professional Development opportunities
  • Hybrid environment
  • Fantastic colleagues and opportunity to solve tough challenges in health