Senior Research Consultant

About Veris Insights

At Veris Insights, our mission is to build an exceptional firm dedicated to improving the world of work. Through granular candidate insights, comprehensive employer benchmarking, ongoing market intelligence, strategic guidance, and recruiting feedback platforms, we're redefining how North America's leading organizations approach recruiting, employer branding, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and talent management. We partner with hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies, setting a new standard for research, analytics, and insights in university recruiting. Our research shapes the strategic narratives talent leaders rely on to make critical decisions, uniquely positioning us at the forefront of the industry.

The Custom Insights Team

The Custom Insights team provides customized, actionable research tailored specifically to each of our employer partners. We focus on gathering pivotal candidate data at critical decision-making points—the decision to apply, the decision to accept an offer, and the internship experience—to deliver bespoke insights and strategic recommendations that significantly enhance candidate experiences and recruitment outcomes.

About the Role: Senior Research Consultant

As a Senior Research Consultant, you will independently lead customized research projects from conception through delivery. You’ll partner directly with senior-level stakeholders at some of the nation’s most prominent organizations, serving as their trusted advisor on critical recruitment strategy and candidate experience decisions.

How You’ll Grow

The Custom Insights team is one of the most dynamic and impactful groups at Veris Insights, encompassing strategic client engagement, data-driven research design, and influential presentation delivery. You'll collaborate closely with senior leaders to manage and deliver customized research projects including independently shaping survey methodologies to clients needs, owning client interactions, and confidently delivering bespoke research projects to executive stakeholders. You’ll have exposure to an array of growth opportunities, from building trusted advisory relationships to mastering research design and strategic storytelling. No one day looks like another, and opportunities for skill growth are incredibly varied in nature.

Your Character

• Incisive thinker: You quickly interpret complex data, pinpointing critical insights, and present them clearly to executive-level audiences.
• An obsession for the details: You understand the importance of quality when it comes to work. Everything we produce is best-in-class.
• A bent towards service: You naturally embrace a culture centered around service to our clients as well as fellow team members.
• Innovative mindset: You consistently identify opportunities to refine methodologies, enhance research quality, and deliver creative solutions to complex problems.
• Exceptional communicator: Your clarity and executive presence allow you to distill detailed information into strategic narratives with confidence.
• Comfort creating structure: You are excited and motivated by the fact that we are a start-up and are consistently forging new ground on the frontier of growth.

Key Responsibilities: Research Consulting & Project Management

• Serve as the primary research advisor for 5-8 enterprise-level employer partners, diagnosing their unique talent acquisition and early career recruiting challenges and designing customized research protocols to address them.
• Scope projects and create workplans that align research design with client objectives.
• Lead end-to-end research projects independently: define client needs, formulate research questions, develop tailored survey instruments, and produce insightful deliverables.
• Coordinate project timelines and proactively manage relationships with senior stakeholders and main points of contact at member organizations.

Key Responsibilities: Data Interpretation & Strategic Narrative Formation

• Distill quantitative and qualitative findings into clear, executive-ready summaries and strategic recommendations.
• Analyze open-ended comments to discern key themes and translate them into compelling narratives tailored for early career and talent acquisition leaders.
• Write tailored takeaways and recommendations for employers based on the most salient research findings.
• Review research deliverables (own and peers') to ensure accuracy, clarity, and client-readiness before they reach stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities: Communicating Research Findings

• Present research findings directly to senior and executive-level stakeholders in member organizations with confidence and credibility.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on employers' recruiting strategy, proactively providing strategic guidance rooted in Veris Insights' research that influences client decisions.
• Build enduring advisory relationships that position you as a go-to source of talent intelligence for client stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities: Internal Processes & Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to research strategy by generating ideas for new project objectives and product innovation.
• Identify opportunities for infrastructure and process improvements, and help drive their implementation through thoughtful workplanning.
• Demonstrate strong work calibration skills, managing competing priorities and quality standards across a portfolio of concurrent client projects.

The Requirements

• 4-6 years of professional experience in survey research, analytics, talent insights, consulting, or related fields, with a meaningful portion spent in client-facing or advisory capacities.
• Demonstrated excellence advising external clients, including a track record of building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and influencing their strategic decisions.
• Proven ability to diagnose ambiguous business challenges and translate them into well-scoped research designs, from formulating research questions through instrument design, analysis, and delivery.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis capabilities, paired with the strategic storytelling skills needed to turn complex data into executive-ready narratives.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the executive presence and credibility to present findings directly to senior leaders in early career programs or talent acquisition.
• Proven ability to design and execute custom research projects from end to end.
• Experience managing concurrent projects independently, including scoping, workplanning, and coordinating timelines across multiple client engagements.

The Compensation & Benefits Package

• Salary: $92,500 to $115,000 annually, depending on experience.
• Location: Remote-first within the U.S., with occasional travel to Washington, DC for in-person collaboration, team off-sites, or strategic planning.
• Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus monthly mental health days.
• Health & Wellness: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a $1,000 annual wellness stipend.
• Retirement: 401(k) with up to 4% employer match.
• Family Support: Paid parental leave.
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future visa sponsorship. Unfortunately, we are unable to consider OPT/CPT holders.

Key skills/competency

• Research Consulting
• Project Management
• Data Analysis
• Strategic Storytelling
• Client Relationship Management
• Survey Design
• Talent Acquisition Insights
• Executive Communication
• Quantitative Research
• Qualitative Research