Jack Conrad Friedrich

I’m a people analytics professional with a PhD in Industrial-Organizational (Work) Psychology. Alongside my research background, I bring several years of human capital consulting and applied data science experience. I currently live in Bern, Switzerland, and hold a B permit with full authorisation to work.

I chose work psychology because I care about understanding what helps people experience healthy, fulfilling lives at work, and what does the opposite. I also chose it because it gives me a strong skillset across every stage of answering a given question, from framing it to measuring it to acting on what I find. This allows me to work on “whole pieces of work” where I can understand how all the parts of a question or problem fit together. I believe this also makes me an asset in informing organisational people strategy and decisions.

My consulting background has taught me how to dig deeper into a given organisational challenge and identify the true question. From there, I have developed knowledge of the tools to measure and investigate that question, such as survey design and data analysis or analysing open-ended text data with natural language processing. I also have experience moving beyond one-off projects to maintain and improve ongoing measurement work. Throughout, I have learned to present and interpret results for stakeholders and fold in my own knowledge from work psychology, so that the findings optimally inform organisational decisions.

Over the last two years, I worked as a data scientist at Nestlé Purina, where I owned analytics projects end-to-end, from scoping research questions and clarifying stakeholder goals, to building forecasting models and analytics pipelines, to translating results into actionable recommendations. I worked across functions in an internal consulting capacity, with a tech stack including Power BI, R, Python, PySpark, and Databricks. Outside of Purina, I’ve consulted throughout my PhD on employee experience measurement, organisational development, and leadership strategy, including leading data analysis for engagement surveys, facilitating focus groups on climate and culture, and supporting workplace mentoring programme implementation and assessment.

On the research side, my doctoral work examined how employees talk about electronic performance monitoring in online workplace communities, drawing on a corpus of roughly 33,000 posts and combining machine learning classification, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, and time series methods. My master’s thesis took a different angle: I surveyed 1,200 organisational researchers about their use of, and attitudes toward, questionable research practices. That study reflects my values as a scientist, namely pushing for rigour and credibility in my field.

Outside of work, you’ll mostly find me spending time with my wife in Bern, where we share a flat with my orange cat, Todd. We love exploring Switzerland together and trying out new cafes and restaurants, and I’m slowly learning German on the side. I try to maintain an active lifestyle, making time for running or the gym, but outside of that I enjoy playing Nintendo games at home, playing around with Claude Code, and watching whatever new films are out.

I’m currently looking for my next role in people analytics or human capital consulting within Switzerland. If you’re building a team that works on hard and interesting questions about people at work, I’d be glad to connect.

Get in touch: jackcfriedrich@gmail.com