Senior Research Strategist, Research Studio

Alida; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Alida's Research Studio in Vancouver is seeking a Senior Research Strategist to help build it from the ground up. You will lead end-to-end research for world-known brands and become an ongoing strategic thought-partner to clients, shaping roadmaps and guiding insights across studies.

You’ll build client relationships, synthesize learnings, and accelerate thinking with Alida's in-house AI tools, moving from brief to actionable insights with impact.

Qualifications

• Lead end-to-end research for top brands.
• Define research roadmaps and synthesize learnings.
• Build long-term client relationships as strategic partner.

Responsibilities

• Advise on research roadmaps and program direction.
• Synthesize insights across studies through meta-analyses.
• Help clients maximize value from their insights program.

Skills

Strategic research

Client partnership

Cross-brand synthesis

Job description

Alida’s Research Studio is a full-service strategic research function that pairs experienced researchers with enterprise-grade AI tooling to take client projects from brief to final reporting. We're looking for a Senior Research Strategist to help build it with us from the ground up.

This isn't a traditional project-execution role. You'll lead end-to-end research for some of the world's best-known brands, and you'll become an ongoing strategic thought-partner to those clients - helping them shape research roadmaps, connect insights across studies, and get more value from their entire research program, not just the next project.

Research Studio is human-led by design. Our researchers own the thinking, the judgment and the client relationship. Our proprietary AI tools, developed in-house, move the starting point forward, so you get to the thinking faster instead of getting caught up in the doing.
Why this role is different:

• Build something from the ground up. Research Studio is new, and you'll be one of the people who shapes it. Working with team leadership and our internal research experts, you'll help define how we deliver: the processes, the workflows, the standards and the client experience.
• Be a strategic partner, not just a project executor. You'll work with clients at the account level, not only project by project. That means advising on research roadmaps, synthesizing learnings across studies through meta-analyses, and helping clients get more value from their whole insights program.
• Get to the thinking faster. Alida's proprietary AI tools build efficiencies with every project. Instead of