Senior Director, Technical Researcher

Job Description:

The Sr. Director, Technical Researcher is Prodege's senior expert in advanced research design and methodology. This person turns complex business questions into research solutions that hold up methodologically and practically. 

Working directly with clients, this role determines what needs to be learned, identifies the right research approach, and designs studies that connect the business question to a clear, defensible recommendation. When deeper statistical design, modeling, or analysis is needed, the Senior Director, Technical Researcher collaborates with the Principal, Market Research Scientist.

Prodege:

A cutting-edge marketing and consumer insights platform, Prodege has charted a course of innovation in the evolving technology landscape by helping leading brands, marketers, and agencies uncover the answers to their business questions, acquire new customers, increase revenue, and drive brand loyalty & product adoption. Bolstered by a major investment by Blackstone in Q1 2026, Prodege looks forward to more growth and innovation to empower our partners to gather meaningful, rich insights and better market to their target audiences.

As an organization, we go the extra mile to “Create Rewarding Moments” every day for our partners, consumers, and team. Come join us today!

Primary Objectives

• Serve as Prodege's senior expert for complex research challenges, establishing methodological standards that support data quality, consistency, and comparability across research programs.
• Own the research thinking from client discovery through study design, interpretation, and recommendations.
• Advance Prodege's research capabilities by identifying opportunities to apply advanced analytics and emerging research approaches.

Qualifications

To perform this role successfully, an individual must be able to fulfill each responsibility listed below. The qualifications listed represent the knowledge, skills, and experience required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Detailed Job Duties

• Translate complex business and research questions into sound research designs, considering the 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 methodological, data quality, comparability, or respondent-experience issues.
• Apply a strong working knowledge of statistics, sampling, weighting, normalization, significance testing, and experimental design, and know when deeper statistical expertise is needed.
• Can identify, specify, and defend weighting approaches with clients and understands complex sample analysis
• Collaborates with the Principal, Market Research Scientist when work requires deeper statistical design, modeling, advanced weighting methodology, trend analysis, or validation. 
• Lead client conversations on research strategy and methodology, translating technical issues, recommended approaches, tradeoffs, and limitations into clear terms.
• Evaluate data patterns and study performance for potential issues, including incidence shifts, speeding, straightlining, survey satisfaction, length of interview, and other indicators of data quality or respondent experience.
• Gather and assess new technical requirements and implementation requests, and translate research needs into clear requirements for Sampling, Programming, Data Visualization, Product, Engineering, and other execution teams.
• Lead interpretation of findings and translate complex results into business implications and recommendations people can act on.
• Evaluate emerging methodologies, technologies, and data sources that could strengthen Prodege's research capabilities, and mentor researchers and analysts on advanced methodology and research design.

What Success Looks Like

Success looks like stronger research designs, better business recommendations, trusted client relationships, and Prodege's ability to take on more complex research challenges.

This person also raises the broader research organization's methodological capabilities by sharing expertise, establishing strong practices, and developing other researchers.

The MUST Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Market Research, Marketing, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Business, or a 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.

The Nice to Haves

• Experience combining survey research with behavioral, transactional, first-party, or third-party data.
• Experience building new research methodologies, frameworks, products, or research offerings.
• Experience with Sawtooth or other advanced research platforms.
• Experience with emerging approaches like AI-assisted research, synthetic data, or advanced experimentation.
• Publications, conference talks, webinars, or other contributions to the market research industry.

Pay Transparency:

The anticipated salary range for this position is $155,000 to $170,000. The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include, but are not limited to; the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, the type and length of knowledge and skills for the position, education, training, etc. Prodege is a multi-state employer and final compensation within this range could be impacted by work location. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits.

Prodege Benefits:

Prodege offers a comprehensive benefits package to US Full-time employees including medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD and basic life insurance. Employees receive flexible PTO, as well as paid sick leave prorated based on hire date. US Employees have eight paid holidays throughout the calendar year.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Prodege, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

FCIHO

Employers will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of FCIHO.