Director of Insights

Statara Solutions

Director of Insights leading Statara's Insights practice. Evolving research from polling-centered to strategic insights capability with analytical interpretation and storytelling duties.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and evolve Statara's Insights practice, ensuring the function delivers rigorous, strategically valuable, and commercially relevant research across political, commercial, product, audience, and market contexts.
Develop the frameworks, standards, operating rhythms, and deliverable models that allow the Insights function to scale beyond project-by-project execution.
Define how insights should support client strategy, account growth, product development, audience understanding, message strategy, and narrative development across the organization.
Partner with leadership to identify opportunities to expand Statara's insights capabilities, offerings, and commercial relevance.
Serve as the internal champion for moving insights from tactical research outputs to strategic business value.
Set and maintain high standards for research design, survey methodology, qualitative research, sampling, weighting, modeling, segmentation, data interpretation, reporting, and presentation development.
Ensure research outputs are methodologically sound, clearly documented, appropriately interpreted, and tailored to the strategic question being asked.
Establish reusable frameworks that help teams move from findings to implications, recommendations, and action.
Advise internal teams on the right research approach for a given business, client, product, or strategic question.
Strengthen quality-control processes so data, analysis, and interpretation are consistently defensible and credible.
Expand the Insights function beyond traditional political polling into broader market research, commercial insights, product research, customer and audience understanding, account planning, and strategic narrative development.
Develop insights offerings, frameworks, and deliverables that increase Statara's relevance to commercial clients and non-political use cases.
Translate research capabilities into commercially useful services that help Statara solve a wider range of client problems.
Preserve and strengthen Statara's polling expertise, including public opinion research, benchmark surveys, tracking polls, message testing, issue research, audience studies, focus groups, and other survey-based work.
Partner with Pods and client-facing teams early in the strategy process to shape research questions, interpret findings, identify strategic implications, and build compelling client narratives.
Raise the quality of insights storytelling across the organization by helping teams translate complex research into sharp, client-ready narratives.
Lead, manage, and develop the Insights team, building capability in research design, polling, analytics, qualitative methods, market research, modeling, storytelling, and client advisory work.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience leading research, insights, analytics, polling, market research, strategy, or data-driven consulting functions.
Strong hands-on experience with traditional polling, including public opinion research, benchmark surveys, tracking polls, message testing, issue research, questionnaire development, sample design, weighting, topline analysis, and crosstab interpretation.
Experience expanding research or insights capabilities beyond a legacy or core offering into broader market, audience, product, commercial, or strategic applications.
Comfort and credibility operating within the polling and public opinion research community, including peers, vendors, and methodological practitioners across the industry.
Strong understanding of survey research, qualitative methods (including focus group design, moderation, and analysis), sampling, data processing, segmentation, modeling, reporting, and presentation development.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex data and research findings into clear strategic recommendations and compelling narratives.
Experience building client-facing presentations, reports, proposals, account-planning materials, or strategic deliverables.
Ability to partner effectively with commercial, technical, analytical, product, and client-facing teams.
Experience managing and developing research, analytics, polling, or insights professionals.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain methodology, findings, implications, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We believe that a diverse, inclusive staff is a fundamental strength. We’re committed to hiring people of all races, ethnicities, religions, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and members of untapped groups are strongly encouraged to apply and are welcome on our teams.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process and employment. If you require an accommodation to apply for or interview for this position, please let us know.
We encourage candidates to apply even if their experience does not align perfectly with every qualification listed.
**COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION **
Including a 401(k) with generous company matching.
**100% REMOTE WORKING OPPORTUNITY **
Always have been and always will be.
**TOP-NOTCH MEDICAL COVERAGE **
Domestic-partner inclusive, health, dental, vision, life, cancer coverage, and long-term disability insurance for you and your dependents.
**GENEROUS PAID TIME OFF **
23 days of PTO per year. We believe in work-life balance and encourage you to use your time off.
**PAID PARENTAL LEAVE **
10 weeks of fully paid time off. All genders qualify equally, and the policy includes adoptions.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Public Opinion ResearchBenchmark SurveysTracking PollsMessage TestingQuestionnaire DevelopmentSample DesignWeightingTopline AnalysisCrosstab InterpretationSegmentation

Soft Skills

Strong Communication SkillsTeam LeadershipClient Engagement