Research Manager
Posted 28 Sep 2026
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
About Metaforms
Metaforms is redefining how market research gets done. Our AI platform helps the world's leading research agencies — Dynata, Savanta, Borderless Access — scale 10x faster without sacrificing quality, automating survey programming, data processing, and project management.
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1,000+ surveys processed monthly
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Serving Fortune 500 companies
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Backed by $9M Series A, scaling fast
The Role
We're hiring a Research Manager who lives and breathes primary research — someone who can pick up a business problem and turn it into a sharp questionnaire, then turn the data back into an insights report a client actually acts on.
You'll own research quality end-to-end at Metaforms: designing and reviewing questionnaires, sense-checking data, and building reports that hold up to client scrutiny. You'll also be the research conscience for our product and engineering teams — making sure the AI we build actually reflects how good research gets done, not a shortcut version of it.
What You'll Do
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Design questionnaires from a brief: objectives, sampling plan, screener logic, scale choice, routing — the full craft, not just clean-up
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Review and QA questionnaires and data for methodological soundness (bias, leading questions, sampling issues, logic errors)
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Turn survey data into insights reports and decks that make a clear, defensible argument — not just banner tables
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Be the domain expert other teams call on for “is this research right” — Product, Engineering, AI teams included
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Partner with Product & Engineering to make sure AI-powered research tools (auto-programming, auto-tabbing, auto-reporting) meet the bar a good researcher would hold them to
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Test and give structured feedback on new tools/prototypes before they ship
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Train and calibrate other researchers and tech teams on research standards and edge cases
What We're Looking For
Core
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5+ years in market research, with real ownership of questionnaires and insights reports — not just fielding or coordination
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Strong grounding in questionnaire design, sampling, and methodology
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Can independently write an insights report that tells a story, not just describe charts
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Sharp eye for what's wrong with a survey or a dataset
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Comfortable being the person who says "this isn't good research" to a client or a product team
Bonus