Performance Research Lead, Innovation

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As a Performance Research Lead, you will carry out sports science research in both the lab and field settings that help to identify key performance challenges across a range of athletes and sports. Together we will help to build key insights into solution based strategies that could influence footwear, apparel, equipment, digital, and other innovations. On occasion, you may also need to act as the link between the Research Lab and Sports Marketing to support the performance services offered to our elite level teams and athletes.

This role will require an appropriate level of sports science and/or applied human performance knowledge, research capability, and extensive experience of working with athletes and performance staff at the highest level!

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will lead projects, collaborate with multiple researchers through all phases of the project, including briefing, planning, execution, data analysis and presentation. It will be vital that you have experience to analyze and provide an understanding of data collected in both lab and field settings. Also, being able to present to a variety of groups including athletes and coaches as well as internal partners. You will be encouraged to promote the work and image of the NSRL group externally to the performance science community!

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

Reporting into the Senior Director and working closely with the Principal Researcher(s), you will work within the Applied Performance Innovation team within the NSRL on projects designed to identify and explore performance opportunities for athletes. Partnering with Sports Marketing to support the performance services offered to our elite level teams and athletes. Along with working across the NSRL and Advanced Innovation groups to identify key performance challenges that may provide insight into product solutions across the footwear, apparel, equipment, and digital innovation teams.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Human performance research experience in various settings covering both lab and field environments
• Extensive capabilities with data collections tools commonly used in the performance science environment
• Expertise in signal processing, data analysis, and statistical analysis of data collected in both lab and field settings
• Ability to interpret complex data, provide reports, and recommendations to athletes and coaches visually and effectively
• Experience working with elite level athletes and/or teams
• Masters level degree or equivalent experience with at least 4 years additional experience (in fields relevant to basic or applied human performance, sport science, kinesiology, integrative physiology, etc).
• Sport- and athlete-related certifications are a plus (such as Strength & Conditioning, Physical Therapy, Sports Dietetics, Sports Psychology, or other athlete related needs)
• Maintain knowledge and experience of the best uses of leading technologies and procedures being applied at the elite level
• Handle relationships and project requirements as defined by internal roadmap for responsibilities along with ability to prioritize multiple project simultaneously
• Act as an internal performance expert to provide insight to footwear, apparel, equipment, and digital innovation teams
• Experience being a creative scientist (e.g. novel protocols, processing techniques, communications, or applications and translations)
• Bias towards growth mindset, and action and resilience in the face of adversity or ambiguity
• Tendency towards curiosity and exploration of possibilities
• An ability to solve team-centric demeanor within a dynamic workplace environment
• Promote the work and image of NXT Sport Research group externally to the performance world