Responsibilities

• Counsel senior clients
• Oversee the design of qualitative and quantitative research and analytics programs to inform messaging, strategy, and tactics
• Partner closely with senior communications strategists, digital experts, and creative teams to develop data-driven strategies that measurably drive real-world reputational and business outcomes
• Serve as an integrator who bridges technical expertise with creative narrative. Guide the team through change by simplifying complex methodologies into clear, strategic narratives, ensuring our data-driven insights remain accessible, human-centric, and actionable for senior stakeholders
• Lead & develop the team
• Lead a team of researchers, analysts, and data scientists.
• Set the standard for the team's work, from research design to what we put in front of a client
• Foster an environment of rigorous curiosity. Encourage the team to constantly challenge the status quo, move beyond experimentation to scale ideas into standard practice, and embrace a 'bias toward what’s new' to keep BPI on the cutting edge of modern insights
• Structure capacity planning and team development
• Build a culture of innovation, curiosity, excellence, and collaboration Reinforce a supportive environment characterized by high expectations and low ego. Encourage risk-taking and collaboration by maintaining a culture of mutual responsibility and support.

Requirements

• 12+ years of senior experience in research and analytics. Experience in public affairs, corporate reputation, or political campaigns strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience synthesizing multi-modal data across opinion research, behavioral analytics, social listening, and digital media to drive programs
• A strong strategic and tactical command of data. You can explain the result to the C-suite, and interrogate how the data was produced.
• An understanding of what matters to drive campaigns. You thrive in data but understand the difference between statistical significance and importance.
• You think in first principles and systems. Once you’ve solved something, you can scale it across the team
• A deep intellectual curiosity for how to understand and influence opinion and behavior.

Preferred

• Experience in public affairs, corporate reputation, or political campaigns strongly preferred.

Benefits

• BPI offers a wide range of benefits to U.S.-based employees, including 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) program with employer match up to 4%, generous time off for vacation, $50 monthly phone reimbursement, unlimited sick time, and 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents.