Senior Growth Operative

Vurvey Labs, Inc.; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vurvey Labs is seeking a Senior Growth Operative to own the end-to-end AI product delivery, from pre-sales pitching to final delivery, and to mentor cross-functional teams. You will translate complex client challenges into structured programs of work, driving strategic growth and leveraging AI initiatives across multi-market contexts.

The role requires 5-7 years in consumer insights or related client-facing roles, strong AI/LLM fluency, and excellent stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years in consumer insights, market research, strategy consulting, or a client-facing solutions role within fast-paced startup environments, including leadership or mentorship experience.
• Technical expertise in qualitative research frameworks, data collection methodologies, and respondent panel management.
• Strong AI/LLM product fluency with the ability to evaluate prompt and workflow outputs, benchmark quality, and identify weak responses at scale.
• Operational proficiency tracking dependencies and managing multi-stage client engagements and team workflows using Jira.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with executive presence to advise senior enterprise stakeholders and lead internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead Pre-Sales Growth: Partner with sales on enterprise pitches, field RFI/RFP responses, set up custom workspaces, and host office hours to drive strategic expansion opportunities.
• Scope Strategic Programs: Translate ambiguous client problems into structured programs of work, recommending strategic use cases, delivery models, and long-horizon roadmaps while guiding junior team members.
• Direct Research Operations: Manage qualitative research end to end at a senior level, including respondent sourcing, data collection, rate negotiations, panel engagement, and multi-market localization.
• Architect AI Builds: Design and QA standard and custom AI builds-including agents, populations, workflows, and bespoke portals-to maintain benchmark output quality across the team.
• Drive Project Execution: Track deliverables, schedules, and dependencies in Jira while leading client workshops, managing stakeholder relationships, and running lean project operations.
• Scale Product Innovations: Enable reseller and agency partners to deliver independently while advocating for productization of high-value, recurring use cases and leading cross-functional AI initiatives.

Skills

Client leadership

AI/LLM fluency

Qualitative research frameworks

Project coordination

Executive communication

Tools

Jira

Job description

About the Role

Our Solutions team owns the full arc of a client relationship-operating across pre-sales pitching, project scoping, research operations, AI product builds, and productization feedback loops. In this senior role, you will lead these efforts, partnering directly with sales teams to translate complex, ambiguous client challenges into structured, deliverable programs of work, providing technical, domain credibility, and strategic leadership from initial pitch conversations through final delivery.

As a Senior Growth Operative in an AI-first organization, you will oversee end-to-end AI product delivery and mentor cross-functional teams, shepherding solutions such as custom agents, synthetic populations, and client-specific portals from kickoff through benchmark quality assurance. By bridging research execution with platform innovation, you will ensure client success, drive strategic growth, and surface recurring enterprise use cases to standardize across our core product organization.

What you'll do:

• Lead Pre-Sales Growth: Partner with sales on enterprise pitches, field RFI/RFP responses, set up custom workspaces, and host office hours to drive strategic expansion opportunities.
• Scope Strategic Programs: Translate ambiguous client problems into structured programs of work, recommending strategic use cases, delivery models, and long-horizon roadmaps while guiding junior team members.
• Direct Research Operations: Manage qualitative research end to end at a senior level, including respondent sourcing, data collection, rate negotiations, panel engagement, and multi-market localization.
• Architect AI Builds: Design and QA standard and custom AI builds-including agents, populations, workflows, and bespoke portals-to maintain benchmark output quality across the team.
• Drive Project Execution: Track deliverables, schedules, and dependencies in Jira while leading client workshops, managing stakeholder relationships, and running lean project operations.
• Scale Product Innovations: Enable reseller and agency partners to deliver independently while advocating for productization of high-value, recurring use cases and leading cross-functional AI initiatives.

What you'll bring:

• 5-7 years of experience in consumer insights, market research, strategy consulting, or a client-facing solutions role within fast-paced startup environments, including proven leadership or team mentorship experience.
• Technical expertise in qualitative research frameworks, data collection methodologies, and respondent panel management.
• Strong AI/LLM product fluency with the proven ability to evaluate prompt and workflow outputs, benchmark quality, and identify weak responses at scale.
• Operational proficiency tracking dependencies and managing multiple multi-stage client engagements and team workflows simultaneously using Jira.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the executive presence and confidence to advise senior enterprise stakeholders and lead internal teams.

ABOUT VURVEY LABS

Vurvey Labs is where frontier intelligence meets real human experience. Our core product, Freckle, allows organizations to move beyond what people say, building People Models that capture how they actually think, feel, and behave. By blending advanced AI simulations with real-world validation, we help major global brands and agency partners co-create deeply with their audiences.

Why Join Us:

• Category-Defining Work: You aren't just maintaining legacy systems; you're actively ensuring that real human voices remain central to AI. Your work lands directly in the hands of global industry leaders.
• A Unified, Autonomous Team: We believe in small, cross-functional teams where researchers, engineers, and strategists work in one seamless loop. You will always see the big picture and own your piece of the puzzle.
• Driven by Connection: We prioritize genuine human connection in everything we do. We are intentional about how we collaborate, fostering a culture of transparency, trust, and deep respect for the people behind the work.