Senior Insights Strategist, Market Research
About the team
The Customer & Partner Insights team sits within Zillow Research & Insights (ZRI), a multidisciplinary team of researchers that includes Insights Strategists, UX Researchers, Behavioral Scientists, and Population Scientists. We all play a significant role within the greater product and marketing organizations. ZRI sits within Zillow Experience Design (ZxD), a fast-paced, collaborative, and driven product design team. We’re a tight-knit, fun-loving, and upbeat group.We build useful, usable, and innovative experiences for Zillow customers. These experiences live across web, mobile, and internal software platforms.
Our team cares deeply about solving problems for real people – customers, co-workers, and everyone else. We seek to make everything a little better than we found it.
About the role
As a Senior Insights Strategist, you're responsible for driving research and product strategy to craft phenomenal B2C customer and B2B partner experiences. If you want to provide data-hungry teams with a view of our customers and partners via planning, executing, and sharing quantitative and qualitative research, then this job is for you! Our mission is to make Zillow the most-loved place to discover, buy, sell, or rent a home.
Responsibilities:
Define short-term and long-term research roadmaps aligned with customer problems and business priorities, identifying and prioritizing research needs throughout a cycle.
Collaborate with marketing (primarily), design, product, data science, and other teams.
Prioritize and coordinate related work, synthesizing data from all sources across ZRI to create a comprehensive view of the marketplace, customers, and business partners.
Advocate for customer and partner needs throughout the product design and development process, and ensure they align with business initiatives.
Effectively communicate findings and insights in a way that drives stakeholders’ decisions.
Lead multiple projects independently, prioritize business objectives, and deliver high-quality work on time.
Contribute, learn, grow, and have fun.
Who you are
6+ years as an Insights Manager, Insights Strategist, Market Researcher, or similar role.
Expertise in quantitative and qualitative research to understand customer needs and address business or marketing objectives. Higher emphasis on quantitative background.
Excellent data and analytical skills. Ability to analyze data and translate into concrete. insights which can be easily understood and applied by the entire organization.
Demonstrated ability to synthesize results from multiple sources to build a richer, more complete perspective of the issue or opportunity, and related implications.
A great storyteller who finds powerful ways to communicate insights and develop empathy among our internal partners, engage senior leaders in research, and influence them to take action.
Experience working successfully with diverse, cross-functional product teams to guide strategic decisions.
Experience collaborating with other research/analytics disciplines (UX and behavioral science researchers, data scientists, population scientists, etc) especially for sophisticated/multi-modal studies.
PhD in relevant research or marketing field preferred.
Get to know us
Zillow is reimagining real estate to make home a reality for more and more people.
As the most-visited real estate website in the United States, Zillow® and its affiliates help movers find and win their home through digital solutions, first class partners, and easier buying, selling, financing and renting experiences. Millions of people visit Zillow Group sites every month to start their home search, and now they can rely on Zillow to help make it easier to move. The work we do helps people get home and no matter what job you're in, you will play a critical role in making home a reality for more and more people.
Our efforts to streamline the real estate transaction are supported by a deep-rooted culture of innovation, our passion to redefine the employee experience, a fundamental commitment to Equity and Belonging, and world-class benefits. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverages as well as parental leave, family benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off. We’re also setting the standard for work experiences of the future, where our employees are supported in doing their best work and living a flexible, well-balanced life. But don’t just take our word for it. Read recent reviews on Glassdoor and recent recognition from multiple organizations, including: the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equity Index, and TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
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