Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end project schedules, timelines, and key milestones
• Contribute to research concepting, strategic framing, and story angles
• Write surveys and research instruments from outlines with moderate oversight, ensuring clarity and strong insight potential
• Manage fielding quality, e.g., reviewing survey instruments, preparing surveys for programming, testing field readiness, troubleshooting fielding issues, and coordinating with the data processing team
• Prepare field progress updates and performance summaries for internal teams and clients
• Prepare and populate report templates with accuracy and high-quality outputs
• Write detailed findings and translate data into clear insights, implications, and strategic narratives
• Participate in client discussions, readouts, and presentations
• Proactively support client research needs with fresh ideas and emerging trends
• Work across multiple client accounts simultaneously and manage time accordingly
• Own the analysis and narrative development of findings for externally facing thought leadership

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (concentrations in journalism, sociology, business or marketing a plus)
• 2+ years of experience in market research, marketing, management consulting, media planning, media buying, strategic planning, investment banking, data journalism or related functions
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to independently author reports, storylines, and presentations
• Ability to interface effectively with multiple levels of management (senior executives to managers and third parties)
• Ability to work as part of a team and support junior analysts while handling multiple tasks under tight deadlines
• Strong attention to detail paired with big-picture strategic thinking
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where ownership and initiative are valued
• Experience translating data into insights suitable for media/PR use (bonus)
• Familiarity with thought leadership research or PR-driven studies (bonus)

Preferred

• Experience translating data into media-friendly insights, headlines, or story angles
• Familiarity with thought leadership research or PR-driven studies
• Experience in media- and PR-oriented research
• Ability to propose creative solutions to client problems and own research ideas from concept through execution and storytelling