Senior Director, Advanced Research & Strategy

Prodege, LLC; Idaho; On-site; USD 155,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible PTO

8 paid holidays

Job summary

Prodege is seeking a Senior Director, Technical Researcher to lead advanced research design and methodology, turning business questions into defensible study plans and collaborating with clients and the Principal, Market Research Scientist.

You will establish methodological standards across programs, own research thinking from discovery to recommendations, and drive integration of emerging analytics across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Market Research, Marketing, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years designing and leading quantitative market research, including complex custom engagements.
• Deep practical expertise across multiple advanced research methodologies, including segmentation, MaxDiff/conjoint, pricing research, experimental design, and longitudinal research.
• A track record of turning ambiguous business questions into strong research strategies and clearly explaining the reasoning, trade-offs, and limitations behind them.
• Expert questionnaire design and measurement skills, along with a strong working knowledge of statistics, sampling, weighting, research data quality, and experimental design.
• Experience leading senior client conversations and turning complex research findings into clear business implications and actionable recommendations.
• Proven ability to work across multidisciplinary teams to execute complex research.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make sophisticated research concepts clear to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex business and research questions into sound research designs, considering methodology, study structure, data requirements, and respondent experience.
• Design advanced quantitative research using segmentation, MaxDiff/conjoint, pricing research, experimental design, and longitudinal research.
• Set methodological and data-quality standards across studies, trackers, and markets for consistency and comparability.
• Review questionnaires, programming specifications, and study designs before fieldwork to identify potential issues.
• Apply statistics, sampling, weighting, normalization, significance testing, and experimental design know-how; escalate when deeper expertise is needed.
• Identify and defend weighting approaches with clients and understand complex sample analysis.
• Lead client conversations on research strategy and methodology and translate technical issues into clear terms.
• Evaluate data patterns and study performance for issues like incidence shifts or respondent experience.
• Gather and assess new technical requirements and translate needs into clear requirements for teams.
• Lead interpretation of findings and translate results into business implications and recommendations.
• Mentor researchers on advanced methodology and research design.

Skills

Lead client conversations

Advanced statistics

Cross-functional collaboration

Research methodology design

Data quality standards

Education

Bachelor's degree in Market Research, Marketing, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Business, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Sawtooth

Other advanced research platforms

Job description

Prodege is seeking a Senior Director, Technical Researcher to lead advanced research design and methodology, turning business questions into defensible study plans and collaborating with clients and the Principal, Market Research Scientist.

You will establish methodological standards across programs, own research thinking from discovery to recommendations, and drive integration of emerging analytics across the organization.