Senior Survey Design & Methodology Expert

Obsidian; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor partners with a leading AI research organisation to engage experienced professionals in survey research, market research, consumer insights, and behavioural science for evaluating and improving sophisticated survey-based research. You will review surveys for quality, assess questions for bias, screening, quotas, and data-quality controls, and provide clear rationales and actionable recommendations.

This role welcomes practitioners from market research, behavioural science, UX research, or

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in survey research, market research, consumer insights or behavioural science.

Responsibilities

• Review and evaluate surveys for methodological quality, clarity and fitness for purpose.
• Assess survey questions for leading language, ambiguity, double-barreled questions, response-option problems, ordering effects and respondent burden.
• Evaluate screeners, eligibility criteria, survey flows, skip/display logic, scales and questionnaire structure.
• Identify potential sources of sampling, measurement, response and selection bias.
• Assess whether surveys are likely to generate reliable data from the intended population.
• Review approaches to survey fielding, respondent recruitment, quotas, sample composition and data-quality controls.
• Apply practical judgment to ambiguous survey-design problems with no single correct answer.
• Provide clear rationales explaining methodological issues and recommended improvements.
• Help evaluate AI-generated survey content and research reasoning against professional standards.

Skills

Survey design

Question wording

Sampling

Data quality

Fieldwork

Qualtrics/Surveys

Tools

Qualtrics

SurveyMonkey

Alchemer

Decipher/Forsta

QuestionPro

Job description

Mercor partners with a leading AI research organisation to engage experienced professionals in survey research, market research, consumer insights, and behavioural science for evaluating and improving sophisticated survey-based research. You will review surveys for quality, assess questions for bias, screening, quotas, and data-quality controls, and provide clear rationales and actionable recommendations.

This role welcomes practitioners from market research, behavioural science, UX research, or