Associate Insight Director

Are you a seasoned insight professional curious about brands, innovation and people? Are you a strategic commercial thinker who believes market research should go further? Are you smart, nice and open-minded? If so, we want to speak to you about an exciting opportunity to join Canvas8 as our Associate Insights Director in New York.

Our Brooklyn studio is a tight and dynamic team that designs and inspires strategic solutions for some of the world's most loved brands, agencies and organizations including Nike, Google, Lego, Universal Music and over 200 others.

About us

We are Canvas8, a strategic insights practice operating out of NY, LA, London and Singapore. We help our clients understand people so they can make better business decisions.

Our work investigates the hidden insights in everyday life – from the psychology of boredom to teenage make-up rituals to why Barbiecore is a Gen Y thing – and makes them meaningful for brands. Our team blends disciplines and skills – from psychology to journalism, anthropology to behavioral economics. What unites them is a desire to understand people and a passion for delivering outstanding work.

About the role

We're hiring a remarkable Associate Insight Director (min 7 years experience) to lead innovative strategy and insights projects, own streams on Canvas8's Membership Platform and manage and develop a local analyst team.

Whether investigating shifts in culture, society, technology or industry, the topics are varied. One day might be interviewing a scientist about the psychology of doom scrolling, the next steering a team to discover why teenagers have stopped playing sports.

Critical to the role will be partnering with our clients - proactively helping them achieve their goals. Whether reacting to their ambitions or responding to their brief, you will be designing considered and innovative client solutions.

The day-to-day

• Managing a team of analysts
• Developing key accounts
• Supporting Strategic Partners' team with pitching
• Mixed method strategic research design into trends and shifts in behavior and culture
• Leading strategic analysis and client advisory
• End-to-end project ownership, from design to delivery
• Membership stream ownership, from Live events to Editorial
• Owning timelines, deliverables and budgets
• Working across cultures and travelling as needed

About you

You have consumer trends, cultural analysis, strategy and mixed-method research experience. You have an impeccable track record of designing exceptional proposals, managing teams, owning insights projects and solving strategic problems.

You are an emotionally intelligent lateral thinker. Naturally curious, you push for better answers and enjoy delivering advice that gets people off their seats.

You are a brilliant writer, editor and communicator able to unlock powerful insights, intuitively understand client challenges, and reveal learnings through inspiring storytelling.

Requirements

• A minimum of seven years experience in an insights role
• Mixed methods research experience
• A lateral thinker and confident strategist
• A natural team coach
• Commercially mindset
• Exceptional communicator - on paper and in person
• Impeccable client management
• Natural organizer, comfortable with complexity
• Curious, collaborative and tenacious
• Smart, nice and open-minded

Benefits

• Salary: $105,000 - $125,000 dependent on experience
• Company matching 401k
• 29 days paid holiday (including Federal holidays, an additional day for Thanksgiving and a further three days for a seasonal shut-down)
• HMO health insurance (100%) and dental and vision insurance (50%)
• Access to physical and mental well-being support including two ‘Mental Wealth’ days
• YuLife Health App, life insurance and Commuter Benefit
• Hybrid working with flexible start times
• Interest-free ‘Life Unlock Loan’ for lump sum payments (rental deposits, sponsorship etc.)
• Personalized career development plan
• Summer Fridays, seasonal benefits, and lots of staff socials
• A friendly and welcoming team (pooches included)

If you think this sounds like a good fit, please apply below by outlining why and attaching your CV.

Applications will close on Friday, October 27, 2023.