Center 3 (19075), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Senior Associate, Talent Assessment

As a Talent Assessment team member, you'll work closely with Talent Acquisition partners and other I/O Psychologists to design and deliver innovative selection strategies to support our shared business goals. With an emphasis on quantitative and qualitative analysis, you'll support the design, validation, and implementation of assessment tools and processes to help ensure Capital One secures outstanding and diverse talent across our enterprise.

Our ideal candidate will display a strong balance of analytical and problem solving skills, business consulting, and communication competencies as well as the ability to work in a dynamic team environment. You'll be on a team of employee selection subject matter experts and will design, conduct, and document analyses (e.g., adverse impact metrics; sampling plans; validation studies) supporting projects with enterprise-wide impact and specific to lines of business as well.

• Developing and maintaining large data sets for analyses on various selection and assessment programs
• Completing large-scale and complex validation studies
• Serving as an analyst for selection tool evaluation and reporting, including business impact analyses for selection solutions and programs
• Communicating results of statistical analyses, along with their implications, to technical and non-technical audiences
• Participating in the design, development, validation, testing, and implementation of practical, effective, defensible, and candidate-friendly products and selection tools and processes

• Analysis: Identify opportunities for improvement and use data to make strategic and tactical recommendations
• Execution: Develop and test hypotheses, design solutions, assess operational feasibility, lead implementation efforts, and develop plans and tools for monitoring outcomes
• Partnership: Collaborate with colleagues across Capital One including: HR, Technology, Sales, Operations, Finance and others to drive candidate experience improvements and business results.
• Strategic & Analytic orientation: A proven track record of decision making and problem solving based on analytics. Conceptual thinking skills must be complemented by a strong quantitative orientation.
• Business communication: Impeccable written and oral communication skills, including strong visualization skills (i.e., able to "tell the story" and highlight key insights in a clear and concise manner that is easily understood by stakeholders at all levels across the organization and with varying levels of technical savvy).
• Results focus: Drives for results and achieves important goals applying strong organizational skills and detail orientation

• Master's degree
• At least 1 year of employee selection and assessment work experience
• At least 1 year of data analysis experience conducting analyses, and building statistical models in R, Python, or SQL
• At least 1 year of experience in consulting with external or internal clients across a variety of seniority levels and technical experience

• PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, or other technical or quantitative discipline, including but not limited to Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Economics, Behavioral Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Chemistry or Statistics
• 2+ years of employee selection experience
• Knowledge of a variety of employee assessments and methods
• Knowledge of advanced statistical methodologies, including regression, longitudinal analysis, or Bayesian modeling
• Proficiency in Python
• Proficiency in using Google Suite