Center of Excellence Research and Insights Manager

The Awardco Center of Excellence (COE) helps shape best practices in recognition, engagement, and employee experience through research, practical insight, and education.

The COE Research and Insights Manager will support this work by designing and delivering high-quality research studies, helping translate findings into thought leadership content, and contributing to internal and external education efforts. This role is ideal for someone with a strong foundation in I/O psychology, employee research, and survey design who enjoys turning data into practical, usable insight.This is an individual contributor role focused on research execution, study delivery, benchmark development, and content support.

Key Responsibilities

Research Design and Delivery

Design, field, and manage original COE research studies focused on topics such as employee engagement, recognition, motivation, wellbeing, and workplace experience

Support the development of surveys, questionnaires, benchmarks, and measurement frameworks that can be used across COE initiatives

Help maintain high standards for study quality, methodology, interpretation, and reporting

Partner with internal stakeholders to align research priorities to COE content and insight needs

Thought Leadership and Insight Development

Translate research findings into practical thought leadership assets including reports, white papers, articles, presentations, and supporting materials

Contribute to the development of a recognizable Awardco point of view on employee recognition and engagement

Support external-facing research storytelling through digestible, practitioner-friendly outputs

Education and Enablement

Help design and deliver webinars, workshops, internal learning sessions, and training materials grounded in research findings

Turn complex organizational psychology concepts into clear, useful education for HR and EX practitioner audiences

Support the COE in building repeatable research-based materials that can be used across events, content, and enablement efforts

Qualifications

Master’s degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Psychology, Applied Psychology, Behavioral Science, or a related field

4-7 years of experience in employee research, survey design, people science, organizational research, or a related field

Demonstrated experience designing and delivering research studies end-to-end

Strong analytical and written communication skills, with the ability to turn findings into practical recommendations

Experience working with survey platforms, research methods, and data storytelling

Comfortable presenting findings to internal stakeholders and professional audiences

Experience contributing to thought leadership, research publications, or educational content is a plus

Preferred Profile

Strong grounding in I/O or people science principles

Able to balance methodological rigor with business practicality

Curious, collaborative, and comfortable working across functions

Excited by building research that informs content, education, and market perspective

Why Awardco:

We have a revolutionary, client-approved product .

One of the fastest growing companies in the nation: 3x Inc. 500 , 2x Deloitte Technology Fast 500 , 2x Mountain West Capital Network Fast 100 , 3x Fast 50 (Utah Business), and 3x UV50 Fastest Growing Companies (BusinessQ), to name just a few.

Great Place to Work certified, ranked in Inc. Best Workplaces , one of the Best and Brightest companies to work for, and ranked on the Salt Lake Tribune's Top Workplaces .

Backed by renowned investors , both local and national .

Awardco is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Disclaimer: Please be aware that all official communication regarding your application will only come from an email address ending in @awardco.com. If you receive any communication from a different domain, it may be fraudulent, and we encourage you to report it.