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Senior Quant Researcher

Mansfield

£45000 - £60000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

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Senior Quantitative Researcher

£45,000-£60,000 Mansfield or London – Hybrid (2 days per week)

I’m hiring a Senior Quantitative Researcher for a well-established creative communications and insight agency, helping major brands understand customer behaviour, uncover opportunities, and make better commercial decisions through research.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced researcher who enjoys owning projects end-to-end, combining strong quantitative expertise with client-facing consultancy and insight storytelling.


The company

You’ll join a large creative and communications business where research, insight, behavioural science, strategy, and creative delivery all sit under one roof.

The Insight function spans quantitative research, qualitative research, market intelligence, and behavioural science, creating a genuinely multidisciplinary environment where research directly influences client strategy and business decisions.


The role

This is a senior-level quantitative research position responsible for managing projects from the initial client brief through to methodology design, analysis, and final recommendations.

Unlike many research roles where delivery is split across multiple specialists, you’ll own the full process and be trusted to make decisions throughout the project lifecycle.


What you’ll be doing

Research Design & Delivery

  • Scope and design quantitative research projects in response to client briefs.
  • Develop questionnaires, sampling approaches, and research methodologies.
  • Manage projects from initial proposal through to delivery.
  • Oversee survey programming, fieldwork, data processing, and analysis.

Quantitative Analysis

  • Perform statistical analysis and interpret findings.
  • Work with customer, survey, market, operational, and commercial datasets.
  • Apply techniques such as:
    • Segmentation
    • Regression
    • Correlation analysis
    • Conjoint
    • MaxDiff

Insight & Storytelling

  • Turn data into compelling commercial recommendations.
  • Present findings clearly to clients and internal stakeholders.
  • Explain what the findings mean, why they matter, and what should happen next.

Client Management

  • Work directly with clients throughout projects.
  • Handle questions, recommendations, and methodology discussions.
  • Partner closely with account managers, project managers, and researchers.

What they’re looking for

Essential

  • Around 5+ years’ experience in quantitative research.
  • Agency-side or hands-on client research experience.
  • Strong project management capability.
  • Experience designing and running research projects independently.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  • Strong quantitative analysis and reporting capability.
  • Ability to translate findings into clear commercial recommendations.

Strongly desirable

  • Conjoint analysis
  • MaxDiff analysis
  • Statistical modelling
  • R or Python
  • Survey scripting experience
  • Experience introducing or evaluating new methodologies

Ideal backgrounds

  • Senior Research Manager
  • Associate Director
  • Quantitative Research Manager
  • Research Director
  • Consumer Insight Manager
  • Market Research Consultant

Why join?

  • Run research projects end-to-end, not just one part of the process.
  • Work alongside Qualitative Research, Behavioural Science, and Market Insight teams.
  • Broad exposure to major client projects and strategic decision making.
  • Technology-agnostic environment where methodologies matter more than specific tools.
  • Strong opportunity to apply and develop advanced quantitative techniques.
  • Genuine influence on client strategy through actionable insight.

Working pattern

Mansfield

  • Hybrid working (2 days per week)
  • Collaborative environment with regular interaction across departments

Package

  • £45,000-£60,000
  • Hybrid working
  • Strong project ownership
  • Exposure to major clients and varied sectors
  • Opportunity to influence both methodology and commercial outcomes

Interview process

Stage 1

  • Interview with senior research leadership

Stage 2

  • Practical research and analysis task
  • Methodology discussion
  • Insight presentation

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining research design, quantitative analysis, stakeholder engagement, and commercial storytelling to deliver insight that genuinely influences client decisions.

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AI Product Manager

San Francisco

$200000 - $250000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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AI Product Manager

San Francisco

$200-250k base + bonus (No equity)

We’re partnering with a fast-growing financial services business that is using AI to fundamentally rethink how core business processes operate.

The company already has production AI agents live across credit and underwriting workflows and is now expanding that approach across Sales, Customer Lifecycle, Finance, and Capital Markets.

This is not a traditional product management role focused on feature backlogs and incremental improvements. The remit is to work directly with business teams, understand how processes operate today, and redesign them from the ground up using AI.

The Opportunity

You’ll work directly on a core AI initiative, owning projects from discovery through launch.

You’ll partner with business teams to understand their processes, identify where AI can help, and turn those needs into clear product requirements.

You’ll then work closely with engineering teams to bring those solutions into production.

It’s a high ownership role with strong exposure to senior stakeholders and a great opportunity to build deeper AI product experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Lead discovery sessions with business teams to understand existing workflows, pain points, exceptions, and opportunities for AI
  • Translate complex business problems into clear AI product designs and technical briefs
  • Reimagine workflows from first principles rather than simply automating existing processes
  • Define product requirements, acceptance criteria, quality controls, and evaluation frameworks
  • Manage specialist engineering partners through the build and delivery process
  • Partner with Data Science and Engineering teams to define evaluation metrics, golden datasets, and production readiness standards
  • Coordinate testing, shadow runs, and go live activity for new AI products
  • Work closely with end users to drive adoption and ensure products solve genuine operational problems
  • Measure post launch impact against defined baselines and identify opportunities for continued iteration

What We’re Looking For

  • 3 to 5 years of experience across Product Management, Product Analysis, or a similar product focused role
  • Hands on exposure to AI enabled products, LLM applications, or AI agents
  • Strong experience running discovery with business stakeholders and turning ambiguous problems into structured solutions
  • Ability to create clear product artefacts including process maps, requirements, design briefs, and specifications
  • Comfortable working with engineers and challenging technical solutions when they do not align with the product intent
  • Strong written communication and structured problem solving skills
  • Comfortable operating independently in ambiguous, fast moving environments

Ideally You’ll Also Have

  • Experience within an AI native, fintech, lending, or high growth technology environment
  • Exposure to AI agents, LLM powered products, or workflow automation
  • Experience managing external engineering partners or vendors
  • Strong instincts around when AI genuinely adds value versus when a simpler solution is more appropriate
  • Experience taking AI products from discovery through production and adoption

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Staff Data Engineer

San Francisco

$220000 - $300000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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Staff Data Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$240K-$300K base + equity

We’re partnered with one of the most recognized developer platforms in the world, trusted by engineering teams at OpenAI, Meta, Netflix, and Adobe, who are scaling their data platform and looking to hire a Senior Data Engineer to own the pipelines and foundations at the core of their data ecosystem.

You’ll own the full pipeline lifecycle, from ingestion architecture through to analytics-ready data, working closely with Data Platform Engineers and partnering with analysts and data scientists who depend on what you build every day.

What You’ll Do

  • Design and build scalable ingestion pipelines and orchestration frameworks across structured, semi-structured, and event-based sources
  • Own reliability, observability, and performance across the full pipeline lifecycle from raw ingestion to analytics-ready delivery
  • Build and maintain dbt transformation pipelines serving as the single source of truth across Finance, Product, GTM, and Engineering
  • Ensure revenue and billing data meets the accuracy and auditability required for public company reporting, including SOX compliance
  • Apply software engineering principles throughout: CI/CD, testing, observability, version control, and automation
  • Enable self-serve analytics through semantic layer development, strong abstractions, and clear documentation
  • Champion data quality and governance across classification, ownership, access policies, and data lifecycle management

What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years in data engineering or a hybrid data/analytics engineering role, with a track record of owning pipelines end-to-end in high-growth or enterprise environments
  • Advanced SQL and dbt (Core or Cloud), Snowflake or comparable cloud data warehouse, Python, and Airflow
  • Deep experience with Kafka and streaming data systems, with strong working knowledge of ClickHouse, Iceberg, or similar technologies
  • Experience with ingestion tools such as Fivetran, Airbyte, or Polytomic
  • Cloud-native architecture expertise across AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience designing and scaling data systems to support petabyte-level workloads
  • Track record of building data infrastructure that meets compliance and governance requirements, including SOX or equivalent
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to operate as a senior technical voice across engineering and business stakeholders

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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Los Angeles

$160000 - $200000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Los Angeles, California

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Senior Data Platform Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Salary: $160-200k base

We’re partnering with a fast-scaling, mission-driven advanced technology company building complex software and hardware systems deployed in real-world environments. Their platform processes and operationalizes high-volume data to power critical decision-making across the organization.

They are hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and scale the core data infrastructure that supports company-wide operations.

The Role

As a Senior Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will:

  • Design and build scalable data pipelines and transformation frameworks
  • Own ingestion and egress systems that unify multiple operational data sources
  • Develop reliable, secure data models that power internal data products and applications
  • Partner with engineering, product, and operations to translate business needs into production-grade systems
  • Advocate for best practices across testing, CI/CD, data modeling, and security
  • Debug and optimize complex transformation pipelines in production environments

What They’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering
  • Strong programming skills in Python or similar languages
  • Experience with Spark, PySpark, SQL, and dbt
  • Familiarity with large-scale data platforms and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience with containerization and modern deployment practices
  • Ability to operate autonomously in fast-moving environments
  • Strong ownership mindset and attention to security best practices
  • Must be a U.S. Person due to export-controlled information requirements

This is a high-impact role focused on building durable data systems that directly support operational execution at scale.

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Director of AI

Nashville

$225000 - $275000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
Nashville, Tennessee

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Director of AI

US Remote (EST/CST preference)

$225-275k base + 20% bonus (no equity)

We’re partnering with a global travel management organization that is making a significant investment in AI and is looking for a Director of AI to lead the next stage of that journey.

This is a hands-on leadership role focused on building and scaling agentic AI across the business, from internal productivity and workflow automation through to customer facing AI products.

You’ll own the AI roadmap, technical architecture, team, vendor strategy, governance, and budget, while staying close enough to the technology to guide design and implementation decisions.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Define and deliver the agentic AI strategy across the organization
  • Build the frameworks and architecture that intelligent agents operate within, including tool access, context management, control flow, guardrails, and error handling
  • Set standards around MCP, A2A, RAG, evaluation, and production readiness
  • Build AI into customer facing products and operational workflows
  • Drive internal productivity through copilots, automation, and AI enabled tools
  • Own model strategy, including provider selection, model routing, self-hosting, and inference cost
  • Lead AI governance, security, privacy, and regulatory readiness
  • Build and lead a global team of full time and contract engineers
  • Own vendor relationships and make build versus buy decisions

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong background in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning, or applied AI
  • Hands on experience building and shipping production AI systems, including agentic applications
  • Strong understanding of RAG, MCP, A2A, model orchestration, evaluation, and agent security
  • Experience leading technical teams and influencing senior stakeholders
  • Strong engineering fundamentals across architecture, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and production systems
  • Good understanding of the current model landscape across frontier and open weight models
  • Experience working with enterprise governance, cybersecurity, privacy, and AI regulation
  • Comfortable balancing strategy with hands on technical involvement

Nice to Have

  • Experience building ML models beyond API based applications
  • Background in Data Science or Machine Learning
  • Experience in travel, hospitality, logistics, or another operationally complex industry
  • Experience with workflow automation platforms such as n8n
  • Experience with ISO/IEC 42001 or EU AI Act readiness
  • Experience running AI systems in multi-tenant, customer facing environments

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Analytics Engineer

Nashville

$110000 - $130000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Nashville, Tennessee

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Analytics Engineer

US Remote (EST/CST preference)

$110-130k base

We’re partnering with a global travel management organization that is making a significant investment in its data and analytics capabilities and is looking for an Analytics Engineer to help build and scale its next generation analytics platform.

The role sits across data engineering, analytics, and product, turning complex data into trusted, scalable analytics products used by teams internally and by customers around the world.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Build and maintain analytical data models that support reporting, dashboards, and customer facing data products
  • Transform raw data into clean, reliable, and reusable datasets
  • Develop semantic models and consistent business metrics across the organization
  • Build dashboards, visualizations, and embedded analytics experiences
  • Partner with business, product, IT, and engineering teams to understand requirements and deliver scalable data solutions
  • Improve the performance, reliability, and usability of analytics products
  • Support data quality, governance, documentation, and compliance
  • Help establish best practices around testing, version control, and analytics engineering workflows

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets
  • Hands on experience with dbt, including building, testing, documenting, and maintaining transformation models
  • Experience building analytical and semantic data models
  • Strong understanding of the full data lifecycle, from pipelines and warehousing through to reporting and analytics
  • Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Azure Data Lake
  • Experience with BI platforms such as Looker, Tableau, or Power BI
  • Experience with Python, Scala, R, or another language used in data and analytics engineering
  • Understanding of data quality, query performance, testing, and optimization
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work with both technical and non technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

  • Experience building embedded analytics or customer facing data products
  • Exposure to React, Vue.js, or other frontend technologies
  • Experience with APIs and application integrations
  • Experience with data governance, security, or compliance frameworks
  • Experience working across AWS, Azure, or GCP

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys combining strong technical analytics skills with an engineering mindset and wants to help shape a modern, scalable analytics platform.

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Senior Data Architect

Los Angeles

$220000 - $260000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
Los Angeles, California

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Senior Data Architect

Los Angeles, CA

$220-260k base + bonus

We’re partnering with a large investment organization that is continuing to build out its enterprise data capabilities and is looking for a Senior Data Architect to help shape the next generation of its data platform.

This is a senior individual contributor role focused on enterprise data architecture, Databricks, data modeling, governance, and security. You’ll work closely with business and technical teams to design scalable data structures and standards that support analytics, operations, reporting, and AI use cases.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models across enterprise data platforms
  • Build dimensional models using Kimball, 3NF, Data Vault, and related approaches
  • Help define Databricks Lakehouse architecture, including medallion patterns and Delta Lake design
  • Establish Unity Catalog standards for governance, lineage, access control, and data organization
  • Partner with Data Engineering teams on pipelines, schema design, transformation logic, and performance
  • Build data architecture standards, naming conventions, metadata frameworks, and data quality controls
  • Work closely with business teams across Finance, Accounting, Investor Relations, and Investments to translate requirements into technical solutions
  • Support security and privacy controls across sensitive enterprise data
  • Help define how Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB, and other platforms should be used across different workloads
  • Support downstream ML, GenAI, and RAG use cases through well designed data foundations

What We’re Looking For

  • Strong enterprise Data Architecture or Data Modeling experience
  • Deep hands on experience with Databricks and Delta Lake
  • Strong knowledge of dimensional modeling, Kimball, star schema, 3NF, and Data Vault
  • Experience designing medallion architecture in Databricks
  • Strong Unity Catalog experience across governance, lineage, and access controls
  • Strong SQL skills and familiarity with enterprise data modeling tools
  • Experience with Azure data platforms
  • Strong understanding of data governance, security, privacy, metadata, and data quality
  • Ability to work directly with senior business stakeholders and translate complex requirements into scalable architecture
  • Comfortable operating independently in environments where standards and frameworks are still being built

Nice to Have

  • Experience within financial services, private equity, asset management, or alternative investments
  • Knowledge of investment data including funds, investors, NAV, capital calls, and distributions
  • Experience building architecture standards from scratch
  • Exposure to Snowflake, MongoDB, Kafka, CDC, and Azure Event Hubs
  • Experience supporting AI, ML, or GenAI workloads
  • Databricks, Azure, or TOGAF certifications

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Product Marketing Manager – Mobile Gaming

Miami

$140000 - $170000

+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights

Permanent
Miami, Florida

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Product Marketing Manager – Mobile Gaming

Location: Miami, FL (Hybrid)

Salary: $140,000-170,000

Job type: Full-time, Permanent

We’re partnering with a leading mobile game studio in Miami, part of a major international gaming group, to hire a Product Marketing Manager for its flagship title.

This is a rare opportunity to own the full player journey for one of the most recognizable games in its genre, from first ad impression to long-term retention, and turn new content launches into viral cultural moments.

Why This Role?

You’ll be the bridge between the development team and millions of players, owning full-funnel marketing strategy for a chart-topping mobile game. You’ll shape how new features and content packs go to market, drive aggressive organic growth, and lead expansion into new international markets, with real budget ownership and cross-functional influence from day one.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Define target audiences using player data, user research, and community insight, and dig into what’s driving unexpected player trends
  • Shape product positioning and brand narratives that turn content updates into must-play moments, backed by competitive analysis and market research
  • Design and execute full-funnel go-to-market (GTM) plans that integrate product features with user acquisition (UA), owning budgets and success metrics along the way
  • Lead user acquisition and retention campaigns across paid, organic, PR, social, and non-traditional channels, including live events, influencer partnerships, and referral programs
  • Build co-marketing and collaboration strategies with influencers, IPs, and consumer brands, coordinating cross-functional teams across product, paid UA, data science, and creative
  • Partner with ASO and creative teams to optimize the App Store funnel, listings, and featured placements
  • Own CRM and lifecycle marketing strategy to keep every player segment engaged
  • Measure marketing impact through incrementality analysis, brand lift studies, and marketing mix modeling (MMM), using the data to optimize spend

What You’ll Bring

  • 5+ years of product marketing experience in gaming or entertainment (mobile gaming strongly preferred)
  • Bachelor’s degree or MBA in Marketing or a related field
  • A proven track record of product marketing strategies and activations that delivered measurable growth
  • Fluency in mobile gaming metrics (LTV, retention curves, ROAS, CPI) and the ability to turn analytics into action
  • Strong cross-functional leadership: you can align developers, data scientists, and creatives around one goal
  • A genuine passion for games and a sharp read on industry trends and the psychology of player engagement

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