Senior Director of Technical Research & Insight

Prodege; United States; On-site; USD 155,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Prodege seeks a Senior Director, Technical Researcher to lead advanced research design and methodology, turning complex business questions into rigorous, defensible insights. You will own study design from discovery to recommendations and collaborate with senior scientists on advanced analytics.

You will set data-quality standards, guide clients, and mentor researchers while expanding Prodege's capabilities with innovative approaches across multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 10+ years designing and leading quantitative market research.
• Expertise across segmentation, MaxDiff/conjoint, pricing research, experimental design, and longitudinal research.
• Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into strong research strategies and explain trade-offs.
• Strong questionnaire design, statistics, sampling, weighting, and data quality knowledge.
• Experience leading senior client conversations and delivering actionable recommendations.
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams.

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 approaches like segmentation, MaxDiff/conjoint, pricing research, experimental design, and longitudinal research.
• Set methodological and data-quality standards across studies, trackers, and markets to support consistency, comparability, and reliable interpretation.
• Review questionnaires, programming specifications, and study designs before fieldwork to identify potential issues.
• Apply a strong working knowledge of statistics, sampling, weighting, normalization, significance testing, and experimental design.
• Collaborates with senior scientists when deeper statistical design is needed.
• Lead client conversations on research strategy and methodology, translating technical issues into clear terms.
• Evaluate data patterns and study performance for potential issues such as incidence shifts and respondent experience.
• Gather and assess new technical requirements and translate research needs into clear requirements for execution teams.
• Lead interpretation of findings and translate complex results into business implications and recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging methodologies and mentor researchers on advanced design.

Skills

Quantitative design

Client leadership

Statistical methods

Research methodology

Cross-functional

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Sawtooth

Job description

Prodege seeks a Senior Director, Technical Researcher to lead advanced research design and methodology, turning complex business questions into rigorous, defensible insights. You will own study design from discovery to recommendations and collaborate with senior scientists on advanced analytics.

You will set data-quality standards, guide clients, and mentor researchers while expanding Prodege's capabilities with innovative approaches across multidisciplinary teams.