Qualitative Specialist - Consumer Insights

About the role

We’re growing fast, and we move fast. Let’s help clients change the game in their industries while we change the game in our own.

Hypothesis is a leading insights, strategy, and innovation consultancy at One of the businesses within the Elixirr Group. We blend insights, design, and strategy to help important brands do amazing things. We work with the world’s most dynamic, admired, and disruptive companies to answer their high-stakes questions and help build the future.

We are a nimble, forward-leaning, independent agency whose culture empowers amazing people to do their best work. We’re a collection of researchers, strategists, designers, and marketers who are also musicians, travelers, astrophysicists, rock climbers, and gamers, with two big things in common: we love a good challenge, and we believe our ideas get better when we work together.

Qualifications

• 5+ years expertise leading, moderating, and executing all qualitative methods: interviews, ethnography, focus groups, online boards, workshops
• Fieldwork experience as the lead moderator on 25+ focus groups, 50+ ethnographic interviews, and 50-75+ virtual IDIs led
• Willingness to travel for in-person qualitative fieldwork (50% in-person, 50% online)
• Comfort leading meetings and debriefs with demanding clients
• A self-directed, proactive work ethic with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Able to anticipate potential issues with studies or handle unexpected problems, and propose efficient solutions
• Highly developed communication skills, both in writing story-driven reports and verbally communicating approaches and insights
• Experience working remotely and collaborating with a distributed team
• Experience in moderating for video-based deliverables
• Interest and experience in Hypothesis’s core categories of technology, automotive, entertainment, and CPG/retail

Requirements

• Nice To Have’s:
• RIVA credentials or formal qualitative training
• Experience in project scoping, including methodology recommendations, client consultation, and pricing
• Facilitation experience of collaborative client workshops
• Speaking or publishing experience in qualitative research conferences

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off
• Flexible work with optional office locations in Los Angeles and Seattle
• 9 Paid Holidays
• Bonus 3-day weekends on those months we don’t have a scheduled holiday
• Health, Dental, Vision
• Healthcare & Dependent Care FSA
• 401K + 5% company match
• Employee Assistance Program
• 12 weeks paid Parental Leave
• Annual stipend for the first two years of new family member's daycare
• Monthly Internet Stipend
• New Hire Home Office Stipend

Pay

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Full-time, remote position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Hypothesis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to bringing together humans from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We strive to create a diverse & inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do impactful work together.