GameChanger

Senior Manager, Strategic Insights, Market Research

GameChanger

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Establish and maintain a centralized, structured repository consolidating market insights, customer insights, competitive intelligence, and research outputs from cross-functional teams.
  • Serve as our steward for insight quality by driving methodological rigor, clarity, shared definitions, and common frameworks.
  • Build dashboards, briefs, and meta-analysis summaries that highlight cross-team patterns and strategic opportunities.
  • Promote self-service access to insights by training teams on how to navigate, contribute to, and use the repository.
  • Lead quantitative, qualitative, and secondary research projects that assess industry dynamics, customer needs, competitive movements, and market trends.
  • Build frameworks to track competitive intelligence, industry shifts, disruptive entrants, and evolving market conditions.
  • Conduct segmentation, behavioral analyses, and needs assessments to inform strategic decisions.
  • Translate complex findings into strategic recommendations and present them to senior leadership.
  • Analyze internal performance metrics to uncover growth drivers, diagnose risks, and identify opportunities across GameChanger's portfolio.
  • Support long-term planning with insights on market positioning, growth vectors, and potential headwinds.
  • Provide strategic input to Product, GTM, Partnerships, and Business Development by integrating internal data with external market signals.
  • Source and manage external research vendors, ensuring high-quality outputs aligned to strategic needs.
  • Be GameChanger's subject-matter expert on market research and insights.
  • Partner with Product, Marketing, Finance, CX, Design, and BD to embed insights into planning, roadmaps, and our goals.
  • Promote a culture of curiosity, analytical rigor, and insight-driven thinking.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in corporate strategy, market research, consulting, insights, or related roles.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Marketing, or a related field.
  • Proven experience leading research programs—including qualitative, quantitative, and secondary methodologies.
  • Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to synthesize complex inputs and develop actionable recommendations.
  • Experience managing research vendors, projects, timelines, and budgets.
  • Familiarity with research tools, data visualization platforms, and syndicated data sources.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills and comfort presenting to senior executives.
  • Experience in the youth sports industry is a plus.
Benefits
  • Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
  • Unlimited vacation policy.
  • Paid volunteer opportunities.
  • Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology
  • WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
  • Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development
  • Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly
  • Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe
  • Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
  • Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match.
  • Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
  • Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
  • Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
  • Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
  • DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
market researchquantitative researchqualitative researchsecondary researchdata analysissegmentationbehavioral analysiscompetitive intelligencestrategic recommendationsinsight synthesis
Soft skills
analytical skillscommunication skillspresentation skillsleadershipcollaborationcuriosityinsight-driven thinkingproject managementvendor managementstrategic thinking