Research Manager
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Research Manager at HIT Strategies managing research on Black populations for the 2026 election cycle. Overseeing project logistics and delivering culturally competent research and insights.
Responsibilities:
- Manage research projects logistics (timeline, substance, quality standard), plan implementation, and coordinate team members to drive towards client product delivery
- Drive accurate, high-quality, culturally competent analysis of behaviors, attitudes, values, and other drivers within research populations
- Provide specialized consultation that allows clients to achieve their objectives and goals
- Leverage research expertise to pitch to clients and expand revenue generation
- Manage research projects of both qualitative and quantitative substance from the design stage to final analysis
- Lead a portfolio of work within issue, geographic, or demographic verticals and ensuring research across all clients in those verticals is consistent and iterative
- Design and pitch research projects to prospective clients during the sales process
- Manage client’s timeline and project objectives and goals, helping define the scope of work with guiding questions to ensure research substance aligns with client’s actionable operations.
- Manage project team’s timely and complete delivery of research products
- Draft public opinion surveys for a variety of research audiences, including determining appropriate questions, developing polls and screeners, composing moderator and research guides for qualitative research
- Monitor survey response partial data, mid-project, and reporting up progress, notifying concerns, and managing adjustments with sub-contractors
- Brief and train qualitative group moderators
- Review and approve data products including cross tabs, toplines, dashboards, and analytical reports
- Produce and deliver snapshot briefs for clients ahead of final analysis and reports
- Write and produce visually compelling and accurate analytical reports including statistical facts, key data trends, and critical insights pertinent to client objectives and outcomes
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, Marketing, Mass Communications, Economics, Statistics, Humanities, or related concentration.
- 4 years of previous work experience in public opinion including a focus on Black and African-American research
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, especially succinct and concise reporting, as demonstrated by a research assessment
- Experience conducting polls
- Experience managing vendors’ progress and interacting with clients for product delivery
- Experience managing people including supervision and delegation of work
- Ability to produce a variety of high-quality analysis and presentations as demonstrated by a portfolio of work samples
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office – especially Excel and PowerPoint.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision health plans with 75% of premiums paid by HIT
- Employer paid short-term disability insurance, life & AD&D insurance, and employee assistance program
- Voluntary long-term disability, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity insurance
- 401(k) retirement program with discretionary profit sharing
- Unlimited health and wellness and paid time off
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