Gallup
Director—TalentAssessmentScience
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“Director — Talent Assessment Science at Gallup. Skills: Talent Assessment Science, Psychometric, AI in assessment, Validation, Client Partnership. The Director of Talent Assessment Science will lead the strategic direction and scientific advancement of Gallup's pre-hire assessment offerings. This role involves guiding the development and validation of new assessment instruments, including adaptive testing and AI-augmented approaches, while partnering with clients and internal teams to deliver sc”
What You'll Achieve.
The primary objective is to advance assessment science and provide clients with scientifically sound tools to answer the critical question of who to hire. This includes drawing novel insights from Gallup’s extensive dataset, ensuring assessments are valid, fair, and meet commercial timelines, and ultimately reshaping careers and company trajectories through better talent selection.
Industry & Context.
root cause analysis; confirmatory factor analysis; criterion-related designs; norming and standardization
This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship. Must be eligible to work in the United States. Commitment to working on-site at Gallup’s Omaha office at least three days per week.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Requires a Ph.D. in I-O psychology or a closely related field, with at least 10 years of experience in client-facing assessment building on commercial timelines. Must have demonstrated test construction experience, including item writing at scale with quality and bias review, scale development, and IRT modeling. Proficiency in statistical analysis using R, Python, or similar tools is essential. Must commit to working on-site at Gallup’s Omaha office at least three days per week and be eligible to work in the United States.
Nice to Have
Experience in an applied, non-academic setting for at least five years. Demonstrated experience in confirmatory factor analysis for construct validity, criterion-related designs, norming and standardization, and adverse impact analysis. A researcher's instinct for discovery and fluency in AI as both a tool and context are highly valued.
What You'll Do.
The Director of Talent Assessment Science will lead the strategic direction and scientific advancement of Gallup's pre-hire assessment offerings.
This role involves guiding the development and validation of new assessment instruments, including adaptive testing and AI-augmented approaches, while partnering with clients and internal teams to deliver scientifically sound talent selection solutions.
The position requires a blend of deep psychometric expertise, applied research skills, and leadership to mentor a senior team and defend assessment methodologies to diverse stakeholders.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborates closely with researchers, technologists, client teams, strategy, analytics, technology, and client-service colleagues to advance assessment science and serve clients. Guides researchers and psychometricians on methodology and assessment science for major client engagements.
Communication Scope
executive presentations; legal defense; non-technical stakeholder communication
Process & Methodology
adaptive testing, AI-augmented assessment
Full Job Description
Set the direction and shape the science behind who gets hired. At Gallup, our pre-hire assessment science is backed by decades of research, millions of data points and a body of work that has influenced how organizations select talent around the world. We are looking for a director to lead the next chapter of that science in close partnership with the researchers, technologists and client teams who carry it to market. The work of our Hiring Analytics practice spans the full range, from building proprietary instruments to curating and validating the best of what already exists. Leading this practice requires exceptional judgment to choose the right solution and strategic vision to modernize and advance assessment science in a rapidly evolving industry. This is a player-coach role in the truest sense: senior enough to set where the portfolio goes, yet close enough to the methods that the work still carries your fingerprints. You will guide the practice into adaptive testing, AI-augmented assessment and modern validation while developing a small, senior team that grows because you are in the work alongside them. What You’ll Do Lead the construction and validation of assessments from the ground up across cognitive, behavioral, situational and work-sample formats: item writing at scale; scale development; IRT calibration; and the criterion, content and construct validation that hold up to EEOC and Uniform Guidelines scrutiny. Partner directly with clients, scoping needs, shaping solutions, presenting psychometric findings and defending the science with equal fluency to legal teams, executives and non-technical stakeholders. Build structured interview systems at speed, developing behaviorally anchored, job-relevant guides that balance scientific rigor against commercial timelines — two demands that rarely agree — so clients have tools they can actually use. Draw discoveries out of our data, mining Gallup’s 17M+ pre-hire assessment dataset for novel validity evidence, perf
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