Senior Researcher, Strategic Insights

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Manage a collection of syndicated market-intelligence data sources, ensuring high data quality, effective reporting schedules, and straightforward access to market indicators.

• Evaluate internal operational data in conjunction with external market, consumer, and competitive information to uncover trends, resolve conflicting insights, and differentiate lasting changes from transient fluctuations.

• Convert business inquiries into targeted research objectives and analysis plans utilizing hypotheses, success metrics, existing data, primary research, or a combination of these approaches.

• Oversee research delivery, encompassing study briefs, partner coordination, quality assessments, analysis, synthesis, and stakeholder engagement.

• Develop consistent views of category health, customer behavior, competitive dynamics, and market transformations.

• Simplify intricate analyses into clear recommendations aligned with key metrics and strategic objectives, elucidating implications and subsequent actions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of direct experience in market research, consumer insights, market intelligence, business analytics, strategy, or a closely related field.

• Proven ability to integrate operational, customer, or product data with syndicated, market, competitive, or consumer information to address genuine business inquiries.

• Excellent analytical and critical-thinking abilities, with practical skills in Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, a business-intelligence platform, or similar analytical tools.

• Experience in designing and executing both quantitative and qualitative research, taking ownership of methodology, quality, synthesis, and recommendations from start to finish.

• Extensive experience in generating and analyzing survey data, employing advanced analytical techniques.

• Comfortable conducting qualitative studies and cognitive tests as necessary to support quantitative analyses.

• Strong sense of ownership and commitment to follow-through.

• Utilize AI-powered research and analysis tools responsibly for synthesis, open-text analysis, or workflow enhancement, applying human validation and sound judgment.

• Background in sports, gaming, entertainment, consumer technology, or another rapidly evolving industry.

• Demonstrated success in establishing repeatable feedback systems that enhance decision-making during fast-paced launch cycles.

• Senior individual contributor capability, adept at navigating between data, research, and business contexts.

• Must possess authorization to work for any employer in the U.S.; employment visa sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans

• 401(k) plan with company match

• Annual bonus

• Flexible PTO to promote a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)

• Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits

• Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on productivity, not hours worked

• Company-wide in-person events and team outings

• Lifestyle enhancement program

• Company-provided equipment (Windows & Mac options)

• Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development