Your Role
As an Associate Director at Now What, you’re given the autonomy to lead within the business – refreshingly free of red tape. You’ll lead 3-4 projects at a time largely independently, developing breakthrough strategy and insight, and guiding 1-2 junior team members along the way. You’ll set the standard for high-quality deliverables and will work with leadership to develop new human- centered methodologies and creative work with your personal stamp. You’ll flex between leading quantitative and qualitative projects, and often you’ll be integrated working within both teams.

Your days will include...

• Owning client relationships with little to no supervision; surface opportunities for business development within and outside of projects

• Working with Directors to provide consistent and continual feedback for strategists; suggest ways to accelerate their growth

• Elevating project work – delivering on exceptional work, project success, and replicable legacy opportunities

• Experimenting with new processes to improve project and new business efforts, efficiency, and deliverables

• Collaborating with strategists, qualitative colleagues, and clients to understand business challenges

• Organizing and managing complex strategic projects with exceptional attention to detail

• Managing both quantitative and mixed methods research projects from proposal to delivery

• Processing data, including working with respondent-level datasets, running crosstabs, creating charts, and running ad-hoc analysis requests

• Identifying and resolving data quality issues with support staff and vendors

• Developing insights to strategies and pulling together crisp narratives that inspire action

• Spearheading and overseeing the development of insights and strategy decks

• Contributing to and leading client presentations

• Mentoring the NWQ team of strategists; developing the next generation of NW leaders

• Elevating quantitative thinking on both proposals and project work

• Helping to grow the NWQ portfolio of clients by identifying and winning new clients and deepening existing relationships

• Constantly questioning existing ways of doing things and frameworks while optimizing internal systems for thinking and working

About you...
In addition to a deep passion for quantitative research and the role that it plays in driving strategy, you have 8+ years of insights and strategy experience at an agency or consultancy, and at least 5 years of experience in quant specifically.

You are:

• Knowledgeable in a range of analytic approaches and have a firm grasp of where, how, and why to apply these methodologies (including tracking, positioning/messaging, segmentation, concept tests, A&U, and more).

• Adept at integrating quant and qual insights to inform transformational strategy; you have experience managing hybrid studies and have a strong familiarity with qualitative methodologies.

• Adept at working on multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
  

And finally, your values align with ours...

• Courageous

• Playful

• Instinctive

• Visionary