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Building Impact Through Eaters (BITE) is a nonprofit working to make climate-smart food choices the norm. BITE equips the people and institutions that shape food culture with the tools to make climate-smart choices the easy, appealing, and profitable ones, using narrative and behavioral design. Our methods have consistently proven that when food environments and communications are designed differently, eaters choose differently — without coercion, lectures, or lost revenue.
The Role
The Data Analyst is the embedded data lead for the Insights to Action project working on-site with the client sustainability team (80%) and remotely with the BITE team (20%). The Data Analyst collaborates closely with culinary professionals, BITE researchers, and external data partners to design instruments, collect data, and translate the findings into clear, actionable insights that inform how the program is designed and how best to scale.
Type: Full-time, 11-month contract
Reports to: Senior Research Manager
Compensation is $70,000-$80,000 per year depending on experience
Core Responsibilities
Phase 1 | Chef Change Management Assessment
- Co-design and program mobile-friendly survey instruments used to assess readiness, motivation, and barriers across culinary and front-of-house teams
- Recommend a sampling approach calibrated to the chosen scope of culinary roles and dining locations
- Coordinate fielding logistics on-site, including outreach, reminders, and response tracking to hit target response rates
- Lead the quantitative analysis of survey responses and validate survey findings with previously-conducted qualitative interviews
- Design and analyze short pre/post reflection instruments (2-3 questions, mobile-friendly) embedded in each chef engagement module
- Track proposed menu change submissions and synthesize patterns across hero dishes, sustainability elements, choice architecture interventions, and staff engagement
- Manage handoff of recipe inputs to major emissions database (HowGood) for sustainability analysis and concepts to food and beverage market research firm (Datassential) for consumer testing
- Integrate all outputs back into program decisions
- Lead the day-to-day execution of the impact measurement plan during the 4-8 week single-site pilot, working hand-in-hand with the client team
- Coordinate with culinary, marketing, and front-of-house teams to ensure interventions (menu language, signage, choice architecture) are implemented consistently and that data is captured cleanly and consistently
- Serve as the primary point of contact for data questions during the pilot
- Capture and quality-check baseline and pilot data, flagging anomalies in real time
- Analyze data to measure changes in sales and menu mix, guest satisfaction indicators, site-specific kg CO2e using HowGood, and chef satisfaction and engagement
- Build and maintain a dashboard and summary report that provides a clear, near-real-time view of tracked metrics
- Translate findings into clear, actionable insights for the final deliverable and for a BITE case study
- Serve as the BITE team’s on-site lead for pilot data collection and analysis
- Recommend and configure data collection tools (mobile-friendly surveys, POS data extracts) appropriate to the on-site environment, and maintain clear data documentation, version control, and reproducible analysis workflows
- Conduct regular check-ins with BITE researchers and the Director of Programs to align on methodology, share progress, and surface challenges early
- Identify gaps in data collection or analysis processes and propose practical, field-tested solutions
- Document lessons learned to inform impact measurement design for future BITE engagements and scaling to additional sites
- Support client’s evaluation of sustainability work contracted with other partner organizations, applying consistent data and measurement standards across their portfolio
- 2–4 years of behavioral science experience in quantitative research, data analysis, or applied research, ideally within nonprofit, hospitality, foodservice, sustainable food systems or consumer behavior settings
- Demonstrated experience designing and fielding mobile-friendly surveys in Qualtrics, including sampling strategy, fielding logistics, and response-rate management a plus
- Proficiency in statistical methods (descriptive statistics, regression, ANOVA) and data visualization, analysis, and interpretation using R Programming to measure and validate intervention impact
- Detail-oriented data analysis and documentation, with experience creating reproducible analysis workflows
- Ability to translate quantitative findings into recommendations for program design and scaling decisions across technical and non-technical audiences
- Familiarity with Scope 3 emissions accounting strategies, ideally in Food & Beverage or Agriculture sector
- Building and maintaining dashboards or other reporting tools that synthesize multiple data streams into clear, actionable updates
- Quality-checking and cleaning foodservice data such as point-of-sale, sales/menu mix, and other operational data
- Ability to work independently and adaptively in a fast-paced, embedded on-site role, managing multiple concurrent project phases and timelines
- A growth mindset, comfortable with constantly evolving projects and client requirements
- Easily operates in a dual-stakeholder environment, managing responsibilities and communication across both BITE and the client
We work with the people who shape what we eat – the largest, most influential foodservice operators – to shift perceptions and make climate-smart food choices the norm. You’ll be working with a major brand on an exciting project at the edge of food culture, behavioral science, and climate action. BITE is small enough that your voice shapes the work and established enough that the work has reach.
Benefits
- Hybrid, 2 days a week at the client site in Anaheim, California
- Generous paid time off, including two weeks office closure at year-end
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with company match
We will be accepting applications on a rolling basis with a deadline of August 10th. Please send your resume (max 2 pages) and Statement of Interest responses to: [email protected]
Instead Of a Cover Letter, We Would Appreciate You Answering The Following 8 Questions As Your Statement Of Interest With a Maximum Of 2 Sentences For Each Answer
- Why are you applying for this role?
- Which 4 of your top skills and prior experience are relevant to the job description
- Summarize your experience in: (5 sentences, 1 for each a-e)
- Behavioral science experience in quantitative research, data analysis, or applied research
- Developing surveys in Qualtrics
- Statistical methods using R Programming
- Data documentation, version control, and creating reproducible analysis workflows
- Translating quantitative findings into actionable recommendations
- Where do you see any gaps in your experience in relation to the job description requirements?
- What appeals to you most about this role?
- How would you fit the dual stakeholder culture of BITE (20%) and client (80%)?
- Why should we select you over another qualified candidate?
- What questions do you have about the role or job description at this time, if any?
The negative impacts of climate and nutrition access disproportionately affect the most marginalized people in society, including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQ+ people. Because we believe these communities must be centered in the work we do, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.
