Qualitative Specialist - Consumer Insights

About Hypothesis One of the businesses within the Elixirr Group is Hypothesis, a leading insights, strategy, and innovation consultancy. At Hypothesis, 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. At Hypothesis, 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.

As a Qualitative Specialist, you bring a high level of qualitative expertise and craft to the Hypothesis team. You are a senior team member who works collaboratively with the project team, has excellent moderating techniques, and plays a consultative role with clients. This person confidently leads a variety of types of qualitative methods while constantly “moderating to objectives”.

What You’Ll Do

: Client Impact Act as a trusted partner to clients, and maintain strong client satisfaction Serve as the senior contributor to qualitative projects from kickoff to final report delivery Moderate a range of qualitative methods, focus groups, IDIs, ethnographies, and co-creations, both in-person and online Create key qualitative deliverables, such as the discussion guide, report, and executive summary that fully deliver upon research objectives Synthesize qualitative data into insights that align with the research objectives Collaboratively partner with the team on qualitative story of the deliverable including slide conceptualization Lead client presentations, debriefs, and calls Team Impact Act as a mentor for other qualitative team members and the wider Hypothesis team Serve as a strong collaborator and thought partner when working cross functionally Business Impact Contribute to company culture and champion the Hypothesis Way Contribute to business growth and success by delivering high quality insights Continuously innovate and elevate the company’s qualitative approaches, methods, techniques, and use of platforms What You Have: 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

Nice To Have

’s: RIVA credentials or formal qualitative training Experience in project scop