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Associate Director, Research & Insights

New York, NY - 225 Liberty StreetFull-time$105k–$125k2026-05-07 → 2026-11-13
Hybrid · United States

Core

Lead research strategy for Beauty, Style, & Entertainment verticals using first-party data to inform content, media, and advertising strategies for 175M+ US consumers.

Role type

Senior management IC (Associate Director)

Builds

Strategic insights, category one-sheets, go-to-market materials, and data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing teams.

Domain

Media & Entertainment (Beauty, Style, Entertainment)

Deliverable

dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Team enablement and mentorship, data synthesis from large datasets, media math and statistics, research storytelling, strategic thinking, project management, proficiency with comScore/MRI-Simmons/Telmar/Looker/Tubular, understanding of digital advertising landscape.

Preferred skills

Beauty/Style/Entertainment category experience, passion for pop culture.

Responsibilities

Develop systems to enable analysts, manage analyst workflows and capacity, create and update collateral, support RFPs and ad-hoc requests, synthesize large datasets to draw key insights.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities