Behavior Architect

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About Fractal:
Summary:
The Behavior Architect role is responsible for understanding behavioral challenges and develop strategies for addressing them. This role will also involve closely working with their counterparts in the Consulting, Data Science and Engineering teams, to ensure complete integration and alignment of work that is done by all the three workstreams in a project.

Location: Mumbai

Key Responsibilities:

- Provides hands-on mentoring to User Researchers, Behavioral Science experts, Interaction Designers and Visual Designers through the entire design process from the best research / strategy methods, tools, approaches that are best suited for a client project
- Build and present Proposal and Point of View (POV) documents for new business
- Identify key descriptive hypotheses, and approach to research, that will build an understanding of context and actors’ behavior within that context, and speculate on prescriptive hypotheses to test as prototypes
- Comfort working in cross functional team, to represent a behavioral science and design perspective
- Lead & collaborate on planning, execution, analysis / synthesis on a variety of research efforts; ranging from quick / tactical to deep / strategic.
- Moderate customer interviews to identify underlying motivations, values, mental models and emotions
- Synthesize research findings into concise, actionable insights and visual frameworks that provoke client teams to think differently about the problem / opportunity space
- Ensure the Behavior Science and Design teams are delivering world-class deliverables and outcomes to the internal and external stakeholders.
- Persuasively communicate findings in reports, presentations and workshops
- Thought leadership internally within Fractal and in the external communities around the coming together of AI, Engineering and Design (and related topics).
- Shape and refine the culture of the design team; its rituals, practices, personality, values and norms.

We're looking for someone who:

- Must have demonstrable portfolio of work that reflects the breadth & depth of skills as a Behavior Architect.
- A passion for continuous learning, including interest in reading and synthesizing research papers and books pertaining to the practice, and the ability to translate them into behavioral intervention.
- Has real-world experience in managing projects & design teams and stakeholders (clients / customers) and is comfortable with extreme ambiguity
- Loves an entrepreneurial culture and is excited about the challenge of building a Behavior Science and Design capability (within an established organization)
- Desire to incorporate data science and design thinking into your practice of applied behavioral science
- Strong writing skills
- Adaptable to different business contexts, team structures, & project phases
- Ability / Desire to synthesize vast quantities of qualitative data points into meaningful and digestible chunks
- Willingness and comfort in building rapport with clients (at all levels of their organization), throughout the various project phases
- Humble and sincere confidence clubbed with pragmatic optimism
- Understand that thinking evolves through making (and making through thinking)
- Desire to argue in support of a vision, and the ability to do so respectfully while keeping the team’s collective objectives at the fore
- Exposure and experience working with international clients / geographies will be a plus
- Experience in consulting will be a big plus

We’re looking for someone with this kind of experience:

- Master’s Degree in Behavioral science/ Cognitive Science/ Behavioral Economics/ Applied Social Psychology or equivalent degree
- We’re looking for ’T-shaped people’ with broad skills in Business/ Management & Behavioral Science and deep skills in a particular Behavioral Science domain (ie. Behavioral Economics, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, etc)
- You might have been a SME in a large corporation or consultancy, or you may have worn many hats in a smaller organization

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us