Lead Quantitative Market Research Scientist

Prodege, LLC; New Jersey; On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Prodege is seeking a Principal, Market Research Scientist to lead quantitative research methodologies and applied statistics across client projects. You will shape sampling, weighting, multivariate analyses, and experimental design, ensuring rigorous, defensible insights across tracking, surveys, and behavioral data.

In this senior role, you’ll mentor researchers, collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Visualization, and represent Prodege's research capabilities through client sessions,

Qualifications

• Master's or Ph.D. in Statistics, Survey Methodology, Economics, Quantitative Psychology, Political Science, Biostatistics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of experience applying advanced quantitative research methods within market research, survey research, or another applied research environment.
• Strong expertise in survey methodology, sampling, weighting, statistical inference, multivariate analysis, and experimental design.
• Experience advising researchers or clients on research design and statistical methodology.
• Proficiency with R, Python, SAS, SPSS, Sawtooth or comparable statistical software.

Responsibilities

• Advise research teams on study design, sampling, questionnaire design, weighting, and statistical methodology.
• Recommend the most appropriate analytical approach for each research problem, balancing sound methodology with practical business needs.
• Develop and validate weighting methodologies, significance testing approaches, derived metrics, and other statistical standards used across client projects.
• Support advanced quantitative analyses, including segmentation, maxdiff/conjoint, experimental design, longitudinal research, and the integration of survey and behavioral data.
• Apply advanced stratification, oversampling, and quota-management techniques to large, non-probability, incentivized consumer panels.
• Partner with Product, Programming, Engineering, and Data Visualization to ensure research methodologies are implemented accurately within our platforms and reporting solutions.
• Evaluate emerging research methodologies, statistical techniques, and analytical technologies, recommending where they can improve our research practices and products.
• Develop documentation and best practices that make complex methodologies easier to apply consistently across the organization.
• Mentor researchers and analysts, providing guidance on challenging methodological and analytical questions.
• Represent Prodege's research expertise through client presentations, internal training, webinars, conference presentations, white papers, and other industry contributions.

Skills

Strong analytical and problem-solving

Clear communication of complex ideas

Advising researchers on design

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in Statistics or quantitative field

Tools

R

Python

SAS

SPSS

Sawtooth

Job description

Prodege is seeking a Principal, Market Research Scientist to lead quantitative research methodologies and applied statistics across client projects. You will shape sampling, weighting, multivariate analyses, and experimental design, ensuring rigorous, defensible insights across tracking, surveys, and behavioral data.

In this senior role, you’ll mentor researchers, collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Data Visualization, and represent Prodege's research capabilities through client sessions,