• Type: Full-time 

• Flexible working options include flexible start and finish times, work-from-home, and compressed hours 

• Starting salary: DOE $170k - $180k per year, plus benefits

• Based in NYC or DC

Are you looking for a new challenge? Take on a senior leadership role at a successful, rapidly growing organization dedicated to social impact.Reporting directly to the Managing Director, BIT Americas, the US Director will oversee the Behavioral Insights Team’s portfolios of work in the US and Latin America. This will include identifying what issues BIT should be working on, ensuring that BIT has the resources needed to do its work, and setting the standards for efficient delivery of high-quality projects.

What does the US Director do?

• Work collaboratively with the Managing Director and Senior Management Team to oversee the ongoing growth of BIT’s US and Latin America practice, balancing the need to expand our social impact while mitigating risks related to team culture and work quality. 

• Oversee and coordinate business development, including setting targets by market in consultation with the Managing Director, assigning resources, and holding senior market leaders accountable for their performance. 

• Develop and execute strategies to promote on-time, on-budget delivery of complex projects. Support Project Directors in identifying solutions to budget challenges, making tradeoffs between projects when necessary.

• Make key decisions on staffing, hiring, and budgets, in consultation with the Managing Director. Liaise with the MD and Head of Operations to monitor and analyze financial performance in terms of consultancy income.

• Develop the consulting team’s structures, capabilities, roles, and management setup, as required - for example, considering the best internal organizational structures for delivering our work. 

• Identify the need for proactive recruitment - including liaising with market leads and the MD to identify and recommend which opportunities to invest in.

• Identify emerging issues (with, e.g., quality, personnel, delivery) and raise to MD / Head of Research / Corporate Management with recommendations for decision. 

Key questions your work may answer are:

• What systems, processes and roles are needed to manage growth successfully? 

• How can we organize ourselves and our work to land those projects? 

• How can we best support the continued development of our senior leaders? 

• Do we have the resources to deliver expected future work effectively?

What makes a great candidate for this role?

• Highly developed organizational, planning, and management skills (creating business cases, assessing new markets, qualifying targets, and prioritizing)

• Strong judgment / business acumen

• Excellent people skills, including client relationship and team management 

• Deep commitment to the values of BIT (social impact, empiricism and humility, fresh thinking and intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and lasting partnerships) and the philosophy of social purpose businesses

• Experience of successfully managing and growing a business, preferably a consulting business in the US that worked with the federal government and/or philanthropic sectors

Who are we and what can we offer you?

The Behavioral Insights Team is the world leader in applying behavioral science to public policy challenges in order to strengthen communities and improve lives. 

We design and rigorously test new ideas across a range of areas such as health, crime, and education, to establish what works and what doesn’t. We have helped Tuberculosis patients take their medicine; reduced police susceptibility to cyberattacks; and helped organizations close their gender pay gap.

We are committed to using and generating evidence, so we test our interventions using techniques like randomized controlled trials (RCTs) before they are scaled. For some of our recent projects, please see https://www.bi.team/our-work/blog/.

BIT was created inside the UK government in 2010 as the first government organization dedicated to applying behavioral science to policy and programs. Indeed, we created the term “behavioral insights.” We became a separate social purpose corporation in 2014; in 2015, we opened our North America office and work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment in Brooklyn, NY.

Most recently in 2021, BIT was acquired by Nesta, the UK’s innovation agency. By bringing together two leaders in their fields, the acquisition will help Nesta tackle some of the UK’s most pressing social challenges, and each organization will gain and exchange world class technical expertise in behavioral science, experimentation, design and data science.  BIT will remain a commercial social purpose company, whose profits will be invested in social impact initiatives and also help Nesta to advance its social missions.

BIT selects staff on the basis of our organization's values: always prioritizing social impact; empiricism and humility; fresh thinking, collaboration; and lasting partnerships.

BIT really is a great place to work!

• We offer:

  • comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage or $1,170 healthcare allowance per month;

  • $104 cell phone stipend per month;

  • $1,200/year professional development reimbursement fund;

  • 15 vacation days with the option to purchase an additional 10 days at the beginning of each year, 

  • 7 sick days;

  • 9 public holidays per year;

  • Holiday office closure (late December)

  • 5% 401(K) match with no waiting period;

  • life insurance;

  • commuter benefits;

  • flexible work arrangements;

  • discretionary annual bonus (dependent on company performance); 

  • 12 weeks paid parental leave;

  • an IT set up which allows for easy working from home options.

• We’re a social bunch and have a variety of interest groups.

• We have regular team lunches with inspirational guest speakers. 

To learn more about what it's like working at BIT, check out this handy FAQ sheet and feel free to make suggestions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hjnb5VLlxjVoMrI-FiFJ9soEmo5A_OdpVP8D2JNggxo/edit#

The Behavioral Insights Team is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favorable treatment on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, or because an employee or applicant is a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, other protected veteran, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.

Some of the personal data you provide to Applied when you apply for a role with The Behavioral Insights Team will be passed on to The Behavioral Insights Team for the purposes of (a) reviewing your application; (b) inviting you for interview; and/or (c) offering you a job and getting you set up as an employee/contractor. For full details on how BIT collects and uses your personal data please visit our website - https://www.bi.team/bit-global-recruitment-privacy-notice/ 

If your application is not successful, any personal data provided to us by Applied (including any personal data relating to equal opportunities monitoring as set out above) will be retained by The Behavioral Insights Team for no longer than 6 months after the application deadline has passed (other than in exceptional circumstances where we may need to retain your personal data for longer), at which point your personal data will be securely deleted. We only keep your information for that period in order to allow us to comply with relevant legal obligations.