Science Lead

Mentimeter is an engagement tool with a clear goal in mind. To turn presentations into conversations. Through real-time interactivity and clear visualizations, we get people to participate, engage and become more productive. Transforming all those passive meetings, airless classrooms and drawn out trainings into valuable and memorable moments.

We truly believe that you achieve the best results by doing things together. And that successful leaders need to adopt a curious and collaborative mindset in order to get there. So with you at Mentimeter, you'll be a big part of the ambition to help over 1 billion people listen, learn and work better together.

We are now looking for our first
Science Lead
—a senior individual contributor role that will establish a new field within Mentimeter. If you're excited about taking a scientifically grounded product to the next level, shaping our scientific perspective from scratch, and building a long-term competitive moat based on research, this is a rare opportunity.

As our Science Lead you work cross-functionally with high trust and independence. Together with our Chief People & Culture officer you will be part of driving our overarching Thought Leadership, which spans across the whole company.

You will work deeply integrated into product development, and shape marketing messaging and sales advisory, making sure our users and customers trust our guidance and opinions because it is grounded in science.

With you at Mentimeter, you'll help shape how millions of people worldwide teach, lead, and collaborate in a more engaging and impactful way. Ultimately, you help positioning Mentimeter as a premium, trusted thought leader and partner for cultural transformation and business success.

What You Will Do
Contribute to Mentimeter's Thought Leadership

• Bring a strong, science-informed perspective to how Mentimeter supports better teaching, leading, and facilitation.
• Go into behavioral science and social cognitive neuroscience to extract relevant peer-reviewed research, meta-analyses, and applied insights related to learning, leadership, collaboration and habit-creation.
• Be part of our Thought Leadership Team contributing to translating research into simple frameworks, summaries, and principles used across the company.
• Support Product, Marketing, Sales and Customer Success with clear explanations of why Mentimeter works—and how it connects to scientific understanding.
• Build relationships with researchers and external experts to keep our viewpoint sharp and current.
• Design and run studies through our own product to validate research and hypothesis and help users and customers succeed.

Work integrated in Product Development

• Turn research insights into practical guidance that shapes product decisions and user experience.
• Work embedded with product teams from discovery through delivery, providing clear scientific input on features, user flows, and product strategy.
• Help the product better reflect how people actually think, learn, behave, collaborate, and build new habits.
• Partner with data scientists and AI engineers to embed validated scientific principles into our recommendation engine and LLM-powered features.

Influence Sales, Marketing & Customer Success

• Equip Marketing, Sales and Customer Success with a deeper understanding of why Mentimeter works—at feature level, use-case level, and business-impact level.
• Translate complex academic studies into accessible explanations and actionable recommendations.
• Review and quality-assure sales decks, campaigns, lifecycle messaging, keynotes, courses, and internal/external materials.
• Strengthen the clarity, honesty, and consistency of how we communicate science—and create guidelines for referencing research appropriately.
• Join enterprise customer conversations when a scientific explanation helps build trust or articulate value.
• Shape executive workshops, trainings, and courses as part of our premium advisory and executive education offering.
• Occasionally give talks, keynotes, and interviews that bring our scientific foundation to life in an engaging way.

Science Lead reports to Chief People & Culture Officer, who also has the overarching responsibility for Mentimeter's thought leadership.
We Believe You Have

• An academic background in social cognitive neuroscience, behavioral science, psychology, leadership research, or a related field.
• Proven ability to translate scientific principles into clear customer value and practical business relevance.
• Skilled at understanding complex research deeply—and explaining it in simple, everyday language.
• Demonstrated experience influencing decisions without direct managerial authority.
• Hands-on experience working with product development teams.
• Successful track record collaborating cross-functionally, with excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience teaching, training, or communicating complex ideas to diverse audiences.

What Mentimeter Can Offer
At Mentimeter we can offer a diverse and inclusive work environment supported by smart and driven colleagues. We believe in continuous professional development for all of our colleagues and therefore offer access to a leadership program (including external personal coach) and relevant education to ensure that we continue to be state-of-the-art when it comes to innovating and building Mentimeter. Your place will be in a growing company with lots of career opportunities, working on a beloved product used by more than 300 million people. It's not all about work though, we also offer a very healthy view on work-life balance.

All of this comes attached with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including pension contributions. Learn more about our benefits by visiting our Benefits & Perks page

AI and Hiring at Mentimeter
At Mentimeter, we believe AI helps us work smarter - but it never replaces the human assessment, curiosity, and personal connection that define our culture and our hiring. We use AI as a sparring partner: to bounce ideas, bring new perspectives, support structure, and make our work more efficient. But the meaning, decisions, and interactions always come from people.

• AI does not screen or decide on candidates.
• There is no automated filtering, ranking, or decision-making in our recruitment process. Every application is reviewed by a person.
• Hiring teams may use AI to support their work - for example, to structure notes, prepare interview questions, or organize their thinking.

AI strengthens our work, but it does not define it. At Mentimeter, we're not building an AI-driven hiring process - we're building a people-first culture, where technology helps us listen, learn, and grow together.

Culture at Mentimeter
At Mentimeter we believe in giving everyone a voice - regardless of who you are. So we build a platform that does just that. Our platform is not only our product but also our organization. A platform where people feel safe, where differences are embraced, a place where you can have fun. We strongly encourage applicants who are people of color, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, and/or formerly incarcerated people, and a college degree is not strictly required. In order to give everyone a voice, we need to be as diverse as our users.

Learn more about our culture by visiting our Culture page.

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