We’re building a team of thoughtful, curious problem solvers who want to shape a more resilient, decarbonized, and community-centered power sector. We partner with clients to design research, strategies, and innovation pathways that accelerate the clean energy transition.
At Swift, we value trust, rigor, clarity, and partnership. We differentiate ourselves by delivering reliable, trusted, and excellent support – grounded in a culture of authenticity, humor, and humanity. If this resonates, we’d love to meet you.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to hello@swift-strategy.com. In your cover letter, share a bit about the kind of problems you love solving and why Swift’s mission, culture and the position feel like a fit.
Open Roles
Researcher / Senior Researcher
The Researcher / Senior Researcher at Swift plays an important role in executing and supporting research and development, strategy, and evaluation efforts for the clean energy transition. This position is ideal for a curious, collaborative professional who thrives on gathering and making sense of information, coordinating moving pieces, and helping innovative teams and projects stay on track. This role offers a strong foundation for growth into a future of broader research leadership, advising, and project responsibility over time.
The Senior Researcher / Consultant will support Swift’s primary consulting workstreams including R&D, pilots, program design and evaluation. Our work helps utilities, agencies, and organizations in navigating a rapidly evolving energy landscape. We help these partners design, test, and evaluate strategies that enable them to lead on electrification, grid flexibility + decarbonization, and customer-centric solutions – all with the understanding that real innovation occurs at the intersection of people and technology.
This position is open to remote candidates; with preference for staff based in Oregon, Wisconsin, or Arizona.
Key Responsibilities
Research & Analysis
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative applied research tasks on a variety of clean energy topics including electrification, efficiency, consumer behavior, demand flexibility, and more.
- Design, administer, and analyze surveys and interviews in support of research project goals.
- Synthesize data and information into research findings in clear, structured summaries for project teams and clients.
- Contribute to a collaborative team environment while growing expertise across Swift’s core research methods and subject areas; support the Research Manager and project leads in developing and executing research plans,
- Actively develop deeper research skills across qualitative and quantitative methods for primary and secondary research, creating opportunity to take on increasing responsibility and growing Swift’s impact.
Project Coordination
- Provide organizational and logistical support on project teams, including with Swift’s partners, keeping work moving forward across multiple concurrent projects.
- Track tasks, timelines, and deliverables to help keep projects on schedule and budget.
Outreach & Participant Coordination
- Support outreach and recruitment efforts for surveys, interviews, and focus groups; coordinate with project leads to align recruitment strategies with research objectives.
- Manage research participant relationships, scheduling, and communications to ensure strong response rates.
Communication
- Craft and edit research summaries, reports, and client-facing materials.
- Maintain organized records of data sources, research materials, and analysis outputs.
- Contribute to internal documentation, templates, and knowledge resources.
Qualifications
Required
- 2–5 years of experience in research, consulting, evaluation, program coordination, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience designing or administering surveys and/or conducting interviews.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Excellent written communication skills; comfortable producing polished, structured documents.
- Comfortable working both independently and collaboratively in a small, growing firm.
Preferred
- Familiarity with residential building or energy systems, market actors such as contractors and builders, and/or utility programs is a plus, as well as an area of growth for this role.
- Basic coding or data skills (e.g., SPSS, Qualtrics, Python, or R) to support data processing and analysis.
- Experience supporting outreach efforts for research studies, pilots, or other customer engagement programs.
- Prior experience with utilities, public agencies, or mission-driven organizations.
Characteristics for Success at Swift
- Curious, and committed to human-centered innovation and problem-solving.
- Organized and rigorous in approach.
- Collaborative and communicative, with a service-oriented mindset.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and adapting as project needs evolve.
