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Remote assistant professor of psychology jobs are actively hiring across the U.S. at remote-first universities, online colleges, and distributed academic institutions delivering degree programs in behavioral science, clinical psychology, and counseling. Employers hiring remotely right now include Emory University, Walden University, and Faculty. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Franklin University, a private, independent, accredited, not-for-profit University located in Columbus, Ohio invites applicants for an adjunct faculty member to teach PSYC 605: Psychology of Marketing. The Adjunct Faculty role includes primary responsibility for providing quality instruction and maintaining a positive learning environment with an emphasis placed on teaching, supporting and evaluating students.
Position Summary:
The Adjunct Faculty role includes primary responsibility for providing quality instruction and maintaining a positive learning environment with an emphasis placed on teaching, supporting and evaluating students.
Course Description:
This course applies psychological science to consumer behavior, marketing decision-making, and marketplace interactions. Students examine cognition, emotion, motivation, perception, attitudes, identity, social influence, learning, memory, consumer decision journeys, branding, persuasion, trust, preference, customer experience, digital behavior, personalization, behavioral data, AI, recommendation systems, predictive analytics, social media, and AI-generated marketing. Consumer neuroscience is evaluated critically, and ethical behavioral influence is emphasized.
Students examine the central question: How does psychological science explain consumer behavior, influence, trust, preference, decision journeys, and marketplace behavior?
The major applied assignment is a Consumer Behavior Diagnostic and Behavioral Marketing Strategy, through which students integrate psychological research, behavioral evidence, ethical considerations, and organizational recommendations.
Students also develop artifacts for their practitioner toolkit, including:
- Customer/Consumer Behavior Diagnostic
- Consumer Decision Journey Map
- Behavioral Marketing Strategy Framework
- Ethical Behavioral Influence Checklist
- Executive Consumer Insights Brief
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitate an engaging graduate-level online learning experience grounded in current psychological and behavioral science.
- Help students apply psychological science to consumer and marketplace behavior.
- Guide students in analyzing cognitive, emotional, motivational, social, cultural, and contextual influences on consumer decisions.
- Examine consumer decision journeys, behavioral barriers, persuasion, trust, branding, preference, and customer experience.
- Help students critically evaluate consumer neuroscience research and distinguish scientifically supported applications from overstated or unsupported claims.
- Integrate contemporary applications involving AI, personalization, recommendation systems, behavioral data, predictive analytics, digital behavior, and social media.
- Facilitate critical discussion of ethical issues involving behavioral influence, persuasion, privacy, targeting, consumer data, and vulnerable populations.
- Guide students in translating consumer research and behavioral evidence into practical organizational recommendations.
- Provide timely, substantive feedback on student work.
- Support students in developing applied practitioner tools, including consumer behavior diagnostics, decision journey maps, behavioral marketing strategies, ethical influence frameworks, and executive-level consumer insights.
- Maintain active engagement with students and fulfill University expectations for online instruction, assessment, communication, and academic quality.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
Candidates must possess an earned doctoral degree in psychology or a closely related behavioral science discipline with demonstrated academic or professional expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Industrial-Organizational or Business Psychology with relevant consumer-behavior expertise, Consumer Psychology, Marketing Psychology or a closely related interdisciplinary area, Consumer Behavior, Behavioral Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Judgment and Decision-Making, and/or Behavioral Economics.
Preferred Skills and Characteristics:
- Strong candidates will demonstrate experience in several of the following areas:
- Graduate-level or adult online teaching
- Consumer or behavioral research
- Customer or consumer insights
- Behavioral marketing strategy
- Market research
- Behavioral analytics
- Customer experience
- Branding, persuasion, or decision science
- Digital consumer behavior
- AI-enabled marketing, personalization, or recommendation systems
- Applied behavioral science consulting
- Translating behavioral research into recommendations for organizational or executive audiences
- Professional experience in consulting, industry, research, technology, consumer insights, advertising, customer experience, or behavioral strategy is highly desirable.
- We are particularly interested in a scholar-practitioner who can bridge psychological science and contemporary marketplace practice.
- The successful candidate should be comfortable moving beyond textbook instruction to help graduate students evaluate evidence, diagnose consumer behavior, analyze emerging technologies, challenge unsupported behavioral claims, and develop practical recommendations that organizations can use.
- The faculty member should also demonstrate an interest in the changing relationship among psychology, consumer behavior, data, artificial intelligence, technology, and ethical behavioral influence.
We are not able to hire in California, New York, Massachusetts, Montana, or the City of Philadelphia at this time.
About Franklin University
Founded in 1902, Franklin University has built its reputation on removing barriers to higher education for ambitious adults who must balance their educational goals with other commitments. Accredited and nonprofit, Franklin has earned its long-standing reputation as an innovator in online education. The University offers applied, in-demand undergraduate, master’s and doctorate programs that enable adult learners to achieve their educational and professional goals. From entrepreneurs to CEOs, more than 50,000 Franklin alumni can be found around the world contributing to the communities in which they live and work.
Franklin University is committed to creating a respectful and inclusive educational and workplace environment. Franklin does not discriminate on the basis of age, religion, race, ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, immigration status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or familial status, disability, or veteran or military status.
We embrace diversity and strive to create an environment where students, faculty and staff feel a sense of belonging. We recognize that our collective potential can only be realized when difference is valued, equal access to opportunity is sought, and inclusion is practiced.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
Franklin University, a private, independent, accredited, not-for-profit University located in Columbus, Ohio invites applicants for an adjunct faculty member to teach PSYC 605: Psychology of Marketing. The Adjunct Faculty role includes primary responsibility for providing quality instruction and maintaining a positive learning environment with an emphasis placed on teaching, supporting and evaluating students.
Position Summary:
The Adjunct Faculty role includes primary responsibility for providing quality instruction and maintaining a positive learning environment with an emphasis placed on teaching, supporting and evaluating students.
Course Description:
This course applies psychological science to consumer behavior, marketing decision-making, and marketplace interactions. Students examine cognition, emotion, motivation, perception, attitudes, identity, social influence, learning, memory, consumer decision journeys, branding, persuasion, trust, preference, customer experience, digital behavior, personalization, behavioral data, AI, recommendation systems, predictive analytics, social media, and AI-generated marketing. Consumer neuroscience is evaluated critically, and ethical behavioral influence is emphasized.
Students examine the central question: How does psychological science explain consumer behavior, influence, trust, preference, decision journeys, and marketplace behavior?
The major applied assignment is a Consumer Behavior Diagnostic and Behavioral Marketing Strategy, through which students integrate psychological research, behavioral evidence, ethical considerations, and organizational recommendations.
Students also develop artifacts for their practitioner toolkit, including:
- Customer/Consumer Behavior Diagnostic
- Consumer Decision Journey Map
- Behavioral Marketing Strategy Framework
- Ethical Behavioral Influence Checklist
- Executive Consumer Insights Brief
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitate an engaging graduate-level online learning experience grounded in current psychological and behavioral science.
- Help students apply psychological science to consumer and marketplace behavior.
- Guide students in analyzing cognitive, emotional, motivational, social, cultural, and contextual influences on consumer decisions.
- Examine consumer decision journeys, behavioral barriers, persuasion, trust, branding, preference, and customer experience.
- Help students critically evaluate consumer neuroscience research and distinguish scientifically supported applications from overstated or unsupported claims.
- Integrate contemporary applications involving AI, personalization, recommendation systems, behavioral data, predictive analytics, digital behavior, and social media.
- Facilitate critical discussion of ethical issues involving behavioral influence, persuasion, privacy, targeting, consumer data, and vulnerable populations.
- Guide students in translating consumer research and behavioral evidence into practical organizational recommendations.
- Provide timely, substantive feedback on student work.
- Support students in developing applied practitioner tools, including consumer behavior diagnostics, decision journey maps, behavioral marketing strategies, ethical influence frameworks, and executive-level consumer insights.
- Maintain active engagement with students and fulfill University expectations for online instruction, assessment, communication, and academic quality.
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
Candidates must possess an earned doctoral degree in psychology or a closely related behavioral science discipline with demonstrated academic or professional expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Industrial-Organizational or Business Psychology with relevant consumer-behavior expertise, Consumer Psychology, Marketing Psychology or a closely related interdisciplinary area, Consumer Behavior, Behavioral Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Judgment and Decision-Making, and/or Behavioral Economics.
Preferred Skills and Characteristics:
- Strong candidates will demonstrate experience in several of the following areas:
- Graduate-level or adult online teaching
- Consumer or behavioral research
- Customer or consumer insights
- Behavioral marketing strategy
- Market research
- Behavioral analytics
- Customer experience
- Branding, persuasion, or decision science
- Digital consumer behavior
- AI-enabled marketing, personalization, or recommendation systems
- Applied behavioral science consulting
- Translating behavioral research into recommendations for organizational or executive audiences
- Professional experience in consulting, industry, research, technology, consumer insights, advertising, customer experience, or behavioral strategy is highly desirable.
- We are particularly interested in a scholar-practitioner who can bridge psychological science and contemporary marketplace practice.
- The successful candidate should be comfortable moving beyond textbook instruction to help graduate students evaluate evidence, diagnose consumer behavior, analyze emerging technologies, challenge unsupported behavioral claims, and develop practical recommendations that organizations can use.
- The faculty member should also demonstrate an interest in the changing relationship among psychology, consumer behavior, data, artificial intelligence, technology, and ethical behavioral influence.
We are not able to hire in California, New York, Massachusetts, Montana, or the City of Philadelphia at this time.
About Franklin University
Founded in 1902, Franklin University has built its reputation on removing barriers to higher education for ambitious adults who must balance their educational goals with other commitments. Accredited and nonprofit, Franklin has earned its long-standing reputation as an innovator in online education. The University offers applied, in-demand undergraduate, master’s and doctorate programs that enable adult learners to achieve their educational and professional goals. From entrepreneurs to CEOs, more than 50,000 Franklin alumni can be found around the world contributing to the communities in which they live and work.
Franklin University is committed to creating a respectful and inclusive educational and workplace environment. Franklin does not discriminate on the basis of age, religion, race, ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, immigration status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or familial status, disability, or veteran or military status.
We embrace diversity and strive to create an environment where students, faculty and staff feel a sense of belonging. We recognize that our collective potential can only be realized when difference is valued, equal access to opportunity is sought, and inclusion is practiced.
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote assistant professor of psychology jobs.
- PhD in psychology or a closely related field completed or defended by start date
- Active research program with peer-reviewed publications in a psychology subspecialty
- Evidence of effective undergraduate or graduate teaching experience
- Ability to teach foundational courses such as statistics, research methods, or introductory psychology
- Experience mentoring undergraduate or graduate student research projects
- Record of external grant pursuit or funding in a relevant psychology discipline
Tips for Your Remote Assistant Professor of Psychology Job Search
Demonstrate async teaching competency upfront
Remote psychology faculty are evaluated on how well they instruct without real-time contact. Build a sample syllabus, record a short lecture module, or document LMS experience with Canvas or Blackboard so hiring committees can assess your remote instructional approach before the interview.
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Align your research agenda with the program's focus
Remote institutions hiring psychologists want faculty whose scholarship supports their existing curriculum areas, such as clinical, forensic, or industrial-organizational psychology. Review the program's course catalog before applying and frame your research statement around the gaps your work fills.
Prepare for a remote teaching demonstration
Many online universities replace campus visits with a live video teaching demo conducted over Zoom or Teams. Practice delivering a 15-minute lesson to a cold audience, managing screen-share transitions smoothly, and handling student questions in a virtual format before your interview.
Remote Assistant Professor of Psychology Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote assistant professor of psychology job?
Remote assistant professor of psychology positions go to candidates who can demonstrate independent scholarship, strong asynchronous communication, and the ability to mentor students without in-person contact. Online universities, regional colleges with distance-learning programs, and research-focused institutions are the most active remote hirers. Showing a published research record, experience teaching via video platforms, and comfort managing a course independently all give you a clear edge.
Which companies hire remote assistant professor of psychologys?
Employers currently hiring remote assistant professor of psychologys include Emory University, Walden University, and Faculty, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be online universities, fully distributed academic institutions, and regional colleges that have built out permanent distance-learning programs across behavioral science, clinical psychology, and related fields.
Can you get a remote assistant professor of psychology job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level positions are competitive because you're expected to manage courses, advise students, and produce research with minimal supervision from day one. Online universities and community colleges with growing distance programs are more open to early-career candidates. A strong dissertation, adjunct teaching history, conference presentations, or graduate-level instructional experience can substitute for a full faculty record.
Do you need a degree for remote assistant professor of psychology jobs?
Usually, yes. Most remote assistant professor of psychology roles require a doctoral degree in psychology or a closely related field, and many institutions specify the PhD or PsyD as a minimum qualification for tenure-track appointments. Some online colleges hire candidates ABD for temporary or visiting positions, but a completed doctorate is the standard expectation for a permanent remote faculty role.
Which industries hire the most remote assistant professor of psychologys?
Remote assistant professor of psychology roles concentrate in Education, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed faculty teams to staff growing online enrollment in psychology, counseling, and behavioral health degree programs.
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