Product Researcher: Shape Curriculum & Product Strategy

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote‑first culture

Competitive salary by geographic tier

100% employer‑paid medical, dental, & 

Vision coverage

Flexible paid time off

13 paid holidays

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k)

Annual professional development budget

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a researcher to drive research that informs product direction, curriculum design, and GTM decisions for a workforce development platform. You will partner across product, design, learning, and GTM teams to ground every decision in real user behavior.

The role involves planning diverse studies, evaluating new product areas, and translating findings into curriculum priorities. You will support operations, build advisor pipelines, and optimize research workflows in a

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in research, data, or insights roles such as consulting, venture or impact investing, or user research.
• Comfort working from limited information and fluency with both qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Experience operating in a startup or small team environment, owning loosely defined projects end to end.
• Ability to synthesize research into actionable insights and communicate them effectively to decision‑makers.
• Familiarity with research operations, including repositories, survey platforms, recruitment networks, and transcription or tagging tools.

Responsibilities

• Plan, run, and synthesize a range of research studies, from landscape scans to usability tests, informing both product and curriculum decisions.
• Support early‑stage exploration of new product areas and industries, identifying pain points and opportunity areas among users.
• Conduct pre‑release usability testing and post‑release monitoring using quantitative data, surveys, interviews, and session replays.
• Gather curriculum input from subject matter experts and translate research findings into curriculum priorities.
• Build and maintain a pipeline of subject matter expert advisors, including sourcing, screening, scheduling, and compensation logistics.
• Organize research repositories and operations so findings remain accessible, and identify where automation can improve efficiency without losing quality.

Skills

Research experience

Qualitative & quantitative methods

Synthesize insights

Startup environment

Research operations

Tools

Survey platforms

Recruitment networks

Transcription / tagging tools

Job description

Hidden Jobs is seeking a researcher to drive research that informs product direction, curriculum design, and GTM decisions for a workforce development platform. You will partner across product, design, learning, and GTM teams to ground every decision in real user behavior.

The role involves planning diverse studies, evaluating new product areas, and translating findings into curriculum priorities. You will support operations, build advisor pipelines, and optimize research workflows in a