About PlugShare:
Based in El Segundo, CA, PlugShare is home to the world’s largest community of EV drivers and maintains the most comprehensive census of EV charging infrastructure in the world. PlugShare enables drivers to easily locate and navigate to chargers, offering the ability to filter results by network, charging speed or connector type (e.g., CCS, CHAdeMO, NACS/Tesla). The PlugShare app is available for download on iOS and Android, including in-dash for Android Automotive OS, and online. PlugShare also provides sophisticated data dashboards and reports to automakers, utilities, charging networks, government, and the rest of the EV industry. PlugShare Research offers custom consulting and operates the world's largest EV driver survey research panel, PlugInsights.
PlugShare, a wholly owned subsidiary of EVgo Inc. (NASDAQ: EVGO), has been a part of the EVgo family since 2021. For more information, visit www.plugshare.com
Position Summary:
The PlugShare Research business practice within PlugShare is an industry leading source for EV driver research and consulting, powered by an EV research panel over of over 130K drivers in 6 countries globally. The position of Senior Research Analyst reports directly to the Director of EV Driver Analytics.
The Senior Research Analyst will use deep experience within the EV category to design, analyze and author EV category primary research projects, both in a support role to other team members, or independently. This includes including assessing client needs, recommending a research strategy, interpreting results, and presenting final insights.
Responsibilities:
- Research design: map out the best primary research design to fit unique client requirements. The right candidate will assiduously avoid cookie-cutter solutions and will always custom-fit methods to the problem at hand.
- Present and interpret primary research and consulting projects in a way that adds great value beyond the facts and figures, looking beyond the obvious and finding the essential truths in the data that drive our clients’ businesses forward.
- Maintain a razor-sharp, current understanding of the EV category, including vehicle capabilities, the public infrastructure space, home charging equipment and behaviors, V2H, V2G, the managed charging landscape and more.
Required Skills and Experience:
- The successful candidate needs a minimum of a bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience, with a major in Psychology, Marketing, Statistics, Organizational Psychology, Business or related discipline, with coursework in research methods and statistics. Candidate should have an expert’s command of consumer research methods, both qualitative and quantitative. This includes, but is not limited to questionnaire design, sampling strategy, multivariate analysis, factor analysis, conjoint methods, and more.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant research experience in the automotive.
- At least 5 years of experience with a SaaS-based online survey research panel, preferably using the Qualtrics platform.
- Ability to distill results of research projects quantitatively with the highest level of data integrity, using a wide variety of software tools including SPSS, Qualtrics, and Excel. In particular, Excel skills need to be high level, including a solid working knowledge of pivot tables and advanced Excel techniques.
- Highly level of organization and the ability to track multiple projects at once.
- Clear, cogent writing skills, with fastidious proofreading and style consistency.
The estimated salary range for this position is $120,000 USD to $140,000 USD. Actual salary may vary depending on job-related factors, which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition to a competitive base salary, discretionary target cash bonus and restricted stock units (subject to Board Approval). PlugShare offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, life and disability insurance, unbounded paid time off including parental leave, and a 401(k) plan with a company match.
