CR’s investigative journalism team has alerted consumers to the potentially dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in their drinking water and arsenic in their baby food, taken both a well-known manufacturer and the government to task for keeping a product linked to infant fatalities on the market and, and shared how neighborhoods with a disproportionately high number of people of color and low-income residents are adversely affected when Amazon warehouses come to town.    We're looking for an Investigative Reporter well-versed in consumer safety issues to join our award-winning team. In partnership with the Special Projects Director, our safety experts, plus our Testing, Survey, and Statistics teams, you’ll conceive, create, and produce stories of impact—including deeply reported enterprise and investigative pieces plus daily news projects—in order to champion consumers’ interests and change people’s lives.      Responsibilities:   - Produce deeply reported stories for all of CR’s platforms that focus on consumer safety issues, including those related to product and food safety. - Play a strategic role in conceiving, executing,and shaping content that bridge ideas from across the organization including from testing, advocacy, communications, and other divisions. - Work with content leaders and editors across platforms, as well as advocacy leadership and research, testing, and insight teams to produce investigations that are likely to create high impact in the marketplace. - Follow news in assigned beats in order to create original and updated reporting in Consumer Reports areas of focus. - Partner with Social Media and Video teams to help leverage CR’s work with external audiences.  

In this time of constant change and upheaval, consumers depend on Consumer Reports to help inform their choices and advocate on their behalf.  We're looking for a Director of Enterprise Strategy and Planning to support the design and execution of CR’s strategy, from initial development to continuous iteration, helping our social enterprise continue to advance its mission.   Reporting to the SVP, Chief Strategy Officer, you serve as a strategic cross-organizational thought partner effectively advancing growth and innovation efforts. You'll leverage your expertise forecasting and analyzing marketplace dynamics and your ability to think and operate at the macro and micro levels to create and scale concrete, practical strategies that drive revenue and impact.  You will engage leaders and staff at all levels to drive CR’s priorities and ensure teams effectively balance consumer needs and financial expectations.     Your work will focus on three key areas: enterprise strategy, growth and innovation and special projects.  Working closely with matrixed teams, you will shape deliberate and emergent strategies, often in new spaces and in contexts of high ambiguity; foster a results-driven culture based on learning and experimentation; and navigate complex issues in ways that enable multiple, diverse stakeholders to drive action and hold accountability. You will also apply scenario thinking as well as corporate and social sector frameworks for creation and diffusion of innovation – including products, services, and social movements – in service of CR’s growth agenda.  Key Responsibilities:  Enterprise Strategy - Develop strategic roadmaps including key choices about “where to play” and “how to win” to achieve CR’s mission of a fair and just marketplace. - Lead cross-organizational working groups shaping the overall approach to choice-making surfacing relevant issues and tradeoffs to enable effective, efficient decision-making. - Partner with CR leaders and outside experts/firms to provide strategic insights, new approaches, and strategies for short and long-term enterprise growth and sustainability –and assess the core competencies and skill sets needed to deliver. - Ensure that right-sized data, both internal and external, is brought to bear and informs decisions, with an understanding of risks and mitigation approaches. - Serve as an ambassador for the enterprise strategy and cultural priorities, presenting work to CR’s full team, leadership, and Board/Committees. Growth and Innovation - Support the development of a strong innovation pipeline that accelerates the development of adjacent/new products and services for CR’s growth. - Partner with leaders to define and deliver a portfolio strategy and set of norms to bridge across the core membership work and newer models (e.g., brand licensing, data intelligence, new ventures).  - Advise on facilitates and provides strategic thought partnership to teams to further development of specific growth products and services in close partnership with them Special Projects - Lead cross-functional teams in making strategic choices to achieve organization business and impact goals. - Work with teams across all of CRs functions (including Social Impact, Marketplace Change Strategies, Research Testing and Insights, Content, and Marketing, New Products & Services) to help CR focus on areas of growth and competitive differentiation (Sustainability, Financial Fairness, Digital Rights & Safety). - Engage stakeholders at all levels of the organization to drive CR’s agenda for relevance and sustainability.    

CR is interested in expanding the range of products that we test so we can provide consumers with a wider scope of the category reviews and ratings they have come to depend on.  As Senior Product Test Technician you will report to the Mgr. Test Technicians, in order to update, modify and establish the testing protocols and lab procedures that will help our in-house experts determine which of these products will make the cut.    Responsibilities - Work with Project Leader to conduct and/or review a variety of product tests and record results according to protocol. - Ensure test data meets established standards. - Analyze and correlate test data for review by others. - Assist with the development of test methodology and design of testing equipment. - Build test equipment and develop methods to meet test protocols, as required. - Work cross functionally with stakeholders across the organization include testing, survey and content as needed. - Prepare, maintain,calibrate and repair (as needed) testing devices and equipment. - Assist with the training of other Technicians. - Help with testing in other labs as needed.  

Consumer Reports, one of the most influential mission-driven organizations in the world, is seeking a Taxonomist to lead its ontology/taxonomy strategy. An award-winning media organization with close to 3 million paying digital members, CR publishes daily articles covering consumer news, insights and investigations, as well as 8,500+ products and services.   As CR's Taxonomist, you will work closely with a wide array of talented staffers (e.g., editors, marketers, SEO experts, product testers, web developers, etc.) towards optimizing our content's discoverability.  This role - which reports to Operations Director in the Content division - will also be responsible for developing a taxonomy roadmap, managing near and long-term objectives for the organization as a whole.    Key Responsibilities: - Develop and align taxonomies for classifying assets across content, testing, and product development. - Recommend process improvements to key stakeholders that relate to ontology and taxonomy structure. - Work with key stakeholders to identify the impact to existing internal systems when implementing changes. - Monitor taxonomy governance and change management. - Utilize data-centric tools and methodologies to ensure the taxonomy evolves with the business. - Work across all divisions and products to manage controlled vocabularies and metadata. - Serve as the business owner of the taxonomy management tool.

This is a great career opportunity for a technically-minded financial services expert, interested in making a measurable impact on consumer privacy, cybersecurity, and the quality of digital financial products and services, as they relate to consumer safety, privacy, cybersecurity, and financial fairness.  You will develop an innovative and iterative testing framework to solve a steady stream of interesting challenges, be exposed to the latest software products across the digital finance industry, and have the opportunity to examine them, evaluate them, and increase public knowledge in a way that benefits millions of people.  Your work will inform and influence business practices, industry standards, and laws that protect consumers’ financial health and personal data. Responsibilities: - Develop and oversee overall testing strategy for digital financial services, including prioritization of product categories, protocols, methodologies, and work plan. - Lead category evaluations of digital financial services, including new and emerging services like money management apps, mortgage and personal loan apps, financial planning apps, retail investing apps, cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges, next-generation loyalty and rewards programs, and more. - Document criteria and test procedures; work with CR researchers and technicians to collect and synthesize data, ensuring that data meets standards for accuracy, repeatability, reproducibility and dependability. - Collaborate across CR on ways to compare information and report out these services, and participate in the development of dissemination strategies to make our findings useful and relevant for consumers, regulators, legislators, and the companies themselves. - Build capacity and expertise on digital finance and the future of money, as part of an emerging “community of practice” at CR 

As a Lead Project Engineer you will oversee testing projects for a variety of consumer prodcuts. You will ensure that testing protocols and procedures are followed, and develop methodologies to meet testing objectives.   This is an exciting opportunity to use your engineering skills to innovate and create new ways to test products. You will be analyzing the test data using your advanced Excel skills.   This position is a hybrid position and will work out of our Yonkers, New York office (as needed)!   Responsibilities: - Plan, coordinate and oversee test projects of considerable scope - Develop new testing protocols and ensure proper documentation - Ensure that test data meet established standards for accuracy, repeatability, reproducibility and dependability - Research new test procedures, and evaluate and recommend improvements to existing test procedures - Develop product performance ratings based on test data,delivered accurately and within established deadlines. - Interact with manufacturers, retailers, and internal stakeholders as necessary in order to communicate very technical information in a concise and understandable format

The Senior UX Researcher, Customer Experience will be responsible for iterating Voice of the Consumer (VOC/CX) and UX research.You will work with multiple sources to gauge customer's feedback about their experiences and expectations for CR’s products and services. This feedback will be used to provide consumers with CR’s best in class services and products. At CR, you will be part of a team that creates new, exciting experiences for the next generation of members. The goal is to see significant results, like higher conversion rates, satisfaction and longer time spent on the site. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of Consumer Reports for the next generation of consumers. Responsibilities: - Partner with the Associate Director to design research needed to collect consumer information, analyze data and create actionable reports for the business around consumer insights. - Collaborate with various divisions in the organization driving a VOC centric culture, via  working with team members and vendors to identify requirements, create a plan, and execute research. - Develop and support an enterprise-wide CX measurement system to gauge the customer experience of interactions with CR Digital, traditional, and new ventures products. - Create concise, insightful presentations, scorecards and dashboards for the business and executive levels to help the organization keep track of KPIs. - Conduct in depth analysis of metrics to identify themes, research outputs, and narratives.Synthesizes and communicates research insights and findings to a variety of audiences.  

The Software Engineer is part of one of the technology teams responsible for designing and building software components for the delivery of web applications to millions of Consumer Reports users. This role involves working hand-in-hand with team members and other team units to help design, develop, deploy, and maintain complex Data management Application, ETLs, data pipelines and APIs.   Responsibilities: - Analyze business requirements and design software solutions. - Develop and tests new software components, data management applications, data pipelines, and data services - Collaborate with other software engineers, and teams ( Devops, Infosec, Product, QA etc ) to implement quality software solutions  - Support, troubleshoot, and maintain existing software systems. - Help streamline software development by contributing to the implementation of a continuous integration process, and automating manual processes

The Software Engineer is part of one of the technology teams responsible for designing and building software components for the delivery of web applications to millions of Consumer Reports users. This role involves working hand-in-hand with team members and other team units to help design, develop, deploy, and maintain complex Data management Application, ETLs, data pipelines and APIs.   This is a remote opportunity!   Responsibilities: - Analyze business requirements and design software solutions. - Develop and tests new software components, data management applications, data pipelines, and data services - Collaborate with other software engineers, and teams ( Devops, Infosec, Product, QA etc ) to implement quality software solutions  - Support, troubleshoot, and maintain existing software systems. - Help streamline software development by contributing to the implementation of a continuous integration process, and automating manual processes.

As Analyst, Marketing Intelligence you will produce analytics and customer insights that identify consumer trends and opportunities that help CR help consumers.    Reporting to the Director, Consumer Data Analytics, you'll dig deep into BI platforms, Excel and other analytical tools to communicate multi-channel customer analytics and share insights with internal stakeholders. You will also work cross functionally bridging marketing and technology to understand information needs, develop data requirements, and implement new data into reports.    Responsibilties: - Create visual charts and other designs that convey Business Intelligence insights, ranging from infographics to interactive dashboards. - Work cross functionally across the organization to gather requirements for reports and interactive dashboards. - Communicate insights via review sessions with business users/stakeholders. - Train end users and serve as subject matter expert for Marketing on BI tools. - Maintain, evolve and distill insights from new & existing reporting. - Work hand-in-hand with developers to design and build databases and processes.