Principal Measurement Scientist

At Tracksuit, we’re building the world’s most loved brand‑tracking platform - simple on the surface, scientifically serious underneath. As we scale globally, the stakes get higher: more brands, more markets, more scrutiny, more ambition. To meet that moment, we’re expanding our Research Governance function and looki...

This is not a typical “research role”. It’s a Principal Investigator position in the truest academic sense; defining the scientific agenda, designing the programme, and producing the evidence base that underpins how Tracksuit measures brand health.

If you’re an academically trained measurement scientist who loves hard questions, rigorous validation, and the psychology of how humans respond to surveys at scale, this is your playground.

Create and lead Tracksuit’s measurement science programme
Define the questions, methods, evidentiary standards, and sequencing across a multi‑year horizon.
Audit and challenge existing methodology
Assess every core methodological choice with scientific independence - confirm, refine, or flag for investigation.
Design and run academic‑level validation studies
Partner with Survey Operations on Mode 3 test design and execution; partner with Data Science on statistical validation.
Own the science of respondent psychology
Investigate attention, cognitive load, satisficing, recognition effects, order effects, and panel fatigue; and build evidence‑based mitigation strategies.
Define and maintain Tracksuit’s metric and methodology frameworks
Conceptual definitions, incidence rules, measurement standards, and survey design constraints - all documented with academic rigour.
Build the Methodology Knowledge Base
Create Tracksuit’s scientific record: rationale, standards, validation evidence, and decisions
Assess external data sources with scientific independence
Evaluate synthetic modelling inputs and multi‑source data for scientific credibility.
Engage with the academic community
Build a scientific advisory network; maintain relationships with external academics; represent Tracksuit at conferences where relevant

Deep academic training - ideally PhD/Master’s in psychology, statistics, behavioural science, or similar.
10+ years in quantitative research or measurement science, ideally in a rigorous empirical environment (Ehrenberg‑Bass or equivalent strongly preferred).
Expert in survey methodology, measurement theory, psychometrics, and respondent psychology.
Comfortable challenging assumptions and defending evidence‑based positions.
Able to produce scientific documentation that could withstand peer review.
Collaborative across Survey Ops, Data Science, Product, and Marketing Science - without compromising scientific standards.
Commercially aware enough to understand constraints, but scientifically independent enough not to bend to them.
 
We’re a fast‑growing, values‑driven company with a deep belief in brand science. You’ll join a Research Governance team that is reshaping how brand tracking is defined, validated, and communicated - with the autonomy to build a scientific programme from first principles.
You’ll work with curious, kind humans who care deeply about doing things properly. And you’ll have the space to do the kind of rigorous, meaningful measurement science that rarely exists outside academia.
We’d love to meet you.
⦿ Compensation: Competitive market-rate salaries. We’ve also got a fully transparent compensation framework, so everything’s out in the open.