Senior Run Research Physiologist

Senior Run Research Physiologist

The Brooks Run Research Lab is at the forefront of transforming human movement and runner experience into innovations that empower every runner to go faster, run longer, and feel more alive. Our deep understanding of runners encompasses their movement, feelings and responses in real-world conditions, integrating mind science, biomechanics, physiology and data science to capture the full runner experience. We examine the external forces acting on the body and the internal demands of fatigue and recovery adaptation, revealing how runners truly feel in body and mind both on and off the run.

This holistic approach uncovers patterns that no single discipline could identify alone.

The Senior Run Research Physiologist you will manage original research projects related to athlete physiology to expand Brooks innovation footwear pipelines. In this role, you will use your advanced knowledge of exercise physiology and scientific methods to investigate key performance indicators to maximize runner performance and recovery and reduce injury risk. You will collaborate with product teams across the company to create more optimal and customized product solutions.

Your Responsibilities:

• Manage exercise physiology research programs that lead to new insights and technologies to improve runner performance and reduce injury incidence. Lead project management of owned research projects across multiple business objectives, utilizing project management tools to track project development, tasks, deadlines, and budgets.
• Independently lead research projects including collecting, recording, and analyzing exercise physiology data, in an unbiased, objective manner.
• Creates new frameworks and vision that will define research strategy that encompasses broad themes of applications.
• Thoughtfully connects with the run and the runner to identify opportunities that have yet to be explored
• Support advancements in data collection and data analysis (hardware and software) opportunities that will advance the ability to evaluate human physiology data. Drive initiatives that take the human physiology data collection out of the laboratory and onto the road with the runner.
• Generating original ideas and combine existing concepts in new ways. Systems thinking with the ability to avoid solutions that fix one issue but create another.
• Manage original research projects that relate to running physiology independent of product. Combine these learnings with key business partners to drive business decisions for future opportunities.
• Initiate and lead meetings with functional managers of product creation teams (Development, Product Line Management, Merchandising, Design, Engineering and Color) during various phases of the product development process to ensure alignment of projects, discuss impacts of our exercise physiology research findings and how they impact current and future iterations of a product, and key upcoming calendar dates for future iterations of product.
• Effective translation of research project findings and project status updates to Senior Level Executives. Provide articulate, persuasive, and actionable conclusions with recommendations for next steps and how projects will drive a positive business impact. Drives project decisions through data storytelling. Cross functional teams with nontechnical backgrounds are able to build on ideas and provide feedback. Aligns the storytelling and priority of messaging across functions.
• Initiate and lead meetings with senior level members (Senior Manager, Director) to identify growth opportunities for the research program.
• Ability to share the science of research programs and how it fits into the footwear framework to scientific and non scientific communities
• Understands the Brooks point of view as it relates to the entire brand as well as the competitive market.
• Teach, train and present scientific principles related to exercise physiology and runner performance and their relationship to product. Present to technical and non-technical groups, clearly communicating the Brooks point of view inside and outside of our walls.
• Identify opportunities in the market based on trends and consumer needs related to exercise physiology and human performance that will give Brooks a competitive advantage.
• Display an expert understanding of exercise physiology and the interaction with performance athletic product. Partner with senior product creation team members to identify collaborative opportunities between development and Run Research, creating prototypes for new and innovative concepts unlike anything else on the market.
• May manage up to one direct report, instilling in them the ability to challenge the status quo, think outside the box, and translate research findings and concepts into tangible and actionable product suggestions.
• Network with industry leaders and participate in key industry functions to communicate Brooks' points of view that help shape the current thinking of exercise physiology and…