Senior Behavioral Designer, Financial Health

Work Authorization: Candidates must already be authorized to work in the U.S.

Salary Range: $78000 $93000 depending on experience

Role and Responsibilities

ideas42 is seeking mission-aligned team members to join our Financial Health team. You will have an opportunity to do work that drives financial health for people living on low- to moderate- incomes by working on creating or refining products institutional processes and systems change. Diagnosing behavioral problems and designing behaviorally informed interventions and products is integral to what we do.

Most of the teams work is in the United States though there are opportunities to work with international partners. All team members are supported for their growth internally and externally ultimately preparing them for a wide range of roles in both the private and public sector.

Our team works towards a financial system that:

• Supports people in financial distress
• Building an emergency fund or improving your credit score are hard to achieve while in financial distress. Our work aims to ensure financial products services and policies are designed to support people in financial distress including:
• Making reaching out for help easy and normalizing it especially at moments when people might avoid it.
• Making it easy for people facing financial stress to find and understand safe affordable products that could help them navigate their circumstances.
• Building flexibility and guardrails into products.
• Enables more people to leverage opportunities
• Our financial system offers tools to build wealth and create long-term financial well-being; tools like mortgages 529 college savings plans business loans and tax-advantaged accounts and programs like those for clean energy products. However people with lower incomes and marginalized groups access and use these tools at significantly lower rates.
• We aim to ensure these tools are designed to ensure equitable access (raise awareness and intention) and use these tools by people with low-to-moderate incomes and marginalized groups.

Responsibilities will include:

• Managing projects including intervention design field work/project implementation monitoring and impact evaluation; serving as the day-to-day contact for partners and clients
• Managing and developing relationships with external partners and stakeholders
• Designing full-scale project plans structure and timelines
• Assisting/leading primary and secondary research such as surveys interviews and literature reviews
• Assisting/leading solution design and development such as brainstorming sketching and user testing
• Contributing to briefs blog posts grant proposals and other external communications
• Collaborating with peer and junior staff and mentoring more junior staff
• Participating in internal strategic projects including various aspects of organizational improvement

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 4-8 years of relevant work experience
• Mission-aligned self-starter
• Willing to ask questions make suggestions and discover ways to make things work better; Also willing to be wrong and figure out how to make it right
• Strong analytical skills and working knowledge of statistics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a commitment to high-quality output
• Available and willing to travel on a flexible schedule as needed (typically less than 25%)
• Record of academic excellence and/or excellent recommendations from prior work
• Creative smart logical and structured thinkers
• Collaborates effectively with colleagues

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Stata R or other statistical analysis tools
• Financial services experience
• A background in strategy marketing or product management & client-facing experience
• Passion for understanding human behavior and pursuing innovation

About ideas42

Were a non-profit looking for deep insights into human behaviorinto why people do what they doand using that knowledge in ways that help improve lives build better systems and drive social change. Working globally we reinvent the practices of institutions and create better products and policies that can be scaled for maximum impact.

We also teach others ultimately striving to generate lasting social impact and create a future where the universal application of behavioral science powers a world with optimal health equitable wealth and environments and systems that are sustainable and just for all.

For more than 15 years weve been at the forefront of applying behavioral science in the real world. And as weve developed our expertise weve helped to define an entire field. Our efforts have so far extended to 40 countries as weve partnered with governments foundations NGOs private enterprises and a wide array of public institutions.

We value diversity and inclusion and are dedicated to growing our teams with people who have diverse experiences backgrounds and skills. We are committed to fair and unbiased hiring practices that support equal employment opportunities regardless of race color ancestry religion ethnicity gender national origin age abilities sexual orientation or veteran status.

Workingwith Us

We are aculture-first organization where rulesor processesdo not take precedence people and their ability to make well-reasoned decisions find that our team members are deeply caring smart andboth tenacious andrigorousin their work.We are committed to building an inclusive team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives beliefs and experiences.

Our core values areat the heart of everything at ideas42:

• We live and breathe what we do. We look at everything through aBEHAVIORAL LENS.
• We takeOWNERSHIP. We dont just work at ideas42 we take shared responsibility for it.
• WeDO GOOD. We use our expertise to improve millions of lives and create a better worldfor all.
• We have fun. We letPLAYFULNESSinform the way we work and our approach to the world helping to drive our creativityand improve our solutions.
• We live with aSPIRIT OF GENEROSITY. We approach our colleagues partners and people whose lives we seek to improve with an attitude of selflessness and cooperation.
• We areTENACIOUS. We never take the easy route but push to stretch the limits of whats possible.
• We areRIGOROUSin how we think and how we tackle problems.

Benefits

We hope that you are excited by the opportunity to work with are proud to offeracomprehensive and behaviorally designed benefitspackageand otherperksto support our team and allow us to focus on our work of solving tough social problems.

• Insurance:We offerfully-coveredmedical dental visiondisability and life insurance coverage for you and your families.
• 401(k) Match: We contribute 3% even if you dont contribute at all.
• Generous Vacation and Paid Time Off:Weve built infrastructure to encourage our team to rest and recharge throughout the year.
• Paid Parental Leave
• Fitnessbenefits
• Dependent Care Accounts
• Communication benefits including reimbursement towards a new smart phone.
• Professional Development fund
• Loan Forgiveness:Based on our 501(c)3 status youare able toreceive loan forgiveness under thePublic Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Application Process Overview

• Application: Submit your application and resume.
• Case Study: Selected candidates will receive a short assignment to be completed over approx. 1 week.
• First Round Interview: Selected candidates will be invited to interview with an ideas42 program team member.
• Final Round Interview: Selected candidates will be invited to interview with an ideas42 senior team member. References will also be requested and contacted during this time.