Senior Project Manager, Survey Research

Responsibilities

• Lead projects end to end: own design, implementation, and delivery, and keep management, partners, and clients informed of progress.
• Translate ambiguous client requests into rigorous, defensible research designs - and guide clients toward sound methodological choices, pushing back where needed.
• Write and execute surveys; manage sample and field.
• Conduct statistical analysis of survey data, including panel participation, nonresponse, weighting, imputation, and matching.
• Respond quickly and credibly to internal and external client requests.
• Write and deliver clear reports and presentations.
• Bring methodological rigor to every engagement - choosing the right design, weighting, and analysis approach for the problem at hand.
• Improve how we deliver: identify reusable methods, tooling, and quality checks that make client work faster and more rigorous, and run internal methods experiments that feed directly back into our work

Requirements

• Advanced degree (PhD or master's-plus-experience) in statistics, quantitative social science, computer science, or a related quantitative field. Demonstrated expertise in survey methodology and quantitative research design is essential.
• Five or more years of related experience (graduate research experience counts).
• Strong client and stakeholder management - comfortable advising sophisticated clients and steering them to better decisions under real timelines.
• Experienced programming in R, QSL, and SQL.
• Strong attention to detail and a track record of delivering rigorous work to deadline in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, and the ability to pick up new software and techniques quickly.
• This is a fully remote vacancy based in the US.
• Paid vacation, holidays and sick days
• Flexible working arrangement available
• Group medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) with company match
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• Why join YouGov?
• Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people's opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
• Life at YouGov
• We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
• We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• As an Equal Opportunity Employer,

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Additional Information

The Senior Project Manager, Survey Research leads internal and external survey research projects end to end - from inception and proposal through questionnaire development, programming, fielding, delivery, and reporting. Reporting to our SVP Data Science also based in the US, The Senior Project Manager, Survey Research manages several large projects at once across multiple markets, often for sophisticated academic and institutional clients, and you'll be the person responsible for getting each one delivered to a high standard and on time. This is a client-delivery role at its core. Most of your time goes to executing commissioned projects rigorously and guiding clients toward sound methodological choices - pushing back where a design is weak, and steering partners to decisions they can defend. The people who thrive here find genuine satisfaction in doing client work excellently, in untangling ambiguous asks into clean research designs, and in raising the bar on how we deliver. Alongside delivery, the Senior Project Manager, Survey Research strengthens the methods and tooling the Data Science function relies on. This work is delivery-adjacent by design: better approaches, reusable components, and sharper quality checks that make our client work faster and more rigorous over time. Management and mentoring of junior team members is welcome but not required.

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