Brooks aims to create amazing products that help everyone run their path by exploring how runners move, feel, and respond to products in real-world conditions. This role will bridge data and empathy to ensure runners are at the center of every performance innovation, guiding product design decisions to make every run feel better and more joyful.
Requirements
- Proficient in coding to prep, blend, analyze and visualize data (Python, SQL, MATLAB, Qualtrics).
- Experience identifying new features in wearable data that can be translated into research insights.
- Expertise with qualitative and quantitative data collection and study design evaluation, including collecting and analyzing data in an unbiased manner.
- Experience in presenting scientific principles to technical and non-technical groups.
- Understanding of running shoe design features and components and how they influence product experience.
- Knowledge of athletic performance and injury prevention preferred.
- Proficient Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint skills.
Responsibilities
- Design and lead research studies with moderate complexity that capture both the physical and emotional dimensions of the run including movement usage, usage patterns and subjective feedback.
- Analyze running behavior through wearable metrics and product usage logs to uncover insights that inform footwear design and performance testing. Identifying new features within established tools to quantify on the run and product experience.
- Integrate qualitative feedback from surveys to understand how runners interpret comfort, performance and connection to the product.
- Develop frameworks and visualization tools that quantify runner behavior and link it to product perception that reveal new insights that guide decision making.
- Ensure on-time conclusions regarding product experience informed through the runner in accordance with critical calendar deadlines to enable on time delivery of product to market.
- Collaborate cross functionally with the Run Research Team including biomechanists, physiologists, and data scientists to translate behavioral findings into actionable product direction.
- Communicate findings through visual storytelling and clear summaries that connect complex data to real runner needs. Cross functional teams with non-technical backgrounds must be able to build on ideas and provide feedback.
Other
- May manage up to 1 direct report.
- Other responsibilities as required.
- Ph.D. in biomechanics or related field including engineering, kinesiology, physiology, exercise science, human factors and ergonomics plus 1+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent combination of education, experience, and training (e.g., M.Sc. +3). 6+ years of experience in the performance industry in lieu of a graduate degree.
- Keen attention to detail. Organizational and time management skills with the ability to plan, organize and execute tasks with short timelines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with an advanced ability to communicate points of views concisely and functional expertise within project teams.
