Manager of Insights and Strategy

About Langston

The Langston Co. is a global insights & strategy firm based in Denver, CO. We partner with clients across the revenue spectrum to deliver transformative consumer insights. Our work informs growth strategy, innovation, and brand positioning.

Location: Denver | Boulder | Remote

Location: Denver | Boulder | Remote

About Langston

The Langston Co. is a global insights and strategy firm with a unique approach to consumer research. We call our research method "modular research" - and it's built to make us more effective as researchers and strategists while giving our clients more power and knowledge about the entire field of consumer insights. Every person on our team plays a role in development, discovery, and refinement of this system. Our mission is to make consumer research more approachable and more powerful for brands around the world.

About The Role

We are looking for a strategically-minded individual with an abundance of passion, tenacity, and curiosity. This person will be responsible for contributing to all facets of our client engagements while empowering our clients with game-changing insights and strategic guidance.

This role is the primary "project lead" for our survey-based research projects, which means this person employs a combination of project management skills, client communication, and market research expertise. This mixture brings a large amount of variety along with a high degree of personal responsibility and frequently fast-paced work - a recipe for challenging but exciting weeks at work!

The Manager of Insights and Strategy role stretches across four areas:

• Project Management
  
  

Running a research project from start to finish requires many moving parts. The Insights and Strategy Manager acts as the Project Lead, which means you'll oversee project tasks and timelines to ensure successful research. You'll execute many research and data tasks on your own while working with analysts and senior leaders in the business to complete others.

• Client Management
  
  

Communicating transparently and quickly, you'll provide clients with support on an ongoing basis, ensuring their answers are addressed and their needs are met. This means a high degree of responsiveness and a natural drive to deliver excellent service and support in the face of high expectations and time pressure.

• Data Analysis
  
  

As a growing leader in quantitative insights, you will bring data analysis chops to the team. As the primary lead on several research projects, you'll look for potential problems and recognize when data isn't right. You'll produce reports with strategically-relevant conclusions that are supported by the data, and you'll sometimes run regressions, work with variable reduction techniques (e.g., Factor Analysis), and help execute other sophisticated analyses on a regular basis. If working in Excel and other data platforms doesn't excite you, this role is probably not a great fit.

• Strategy and Insights Delivery
  
  

As research is coming together, you'll think holistically about what it means and how insights can be leveraged to drive business decisions and outcomes for the client. Equally important is how you communicate these insights, both on paper and in person. Langston leverages several mediums for building and communicating insights (e.g., PowerPoint, White Papers, and even video and audio) - you will develop and deliver reports in each of these mediums.

This role will require occasional travel team offsites, as well as visits to client locations in some cases.

Your Experience And Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be a business strategist with deep analytical skills. Specific qualifications include:

• 2-5 years working in management consulting, strategy, analytics, and/or consumer insights
• Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint is required. Please do not apply for this role if you do not meet these two requirements.
• Knowledge of STATA, R, or other statistical package is a nice-to-have
• Experience owning consumer insights projects from start to finish
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Design expertise a plus
• Ability to distill high-level business and research objectives and transform them into an approach
• Unending appetite to learn new techniques, approaches, and research methodologies
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and obsession with meeting deadlines
• Connecting insights to real business outcomes and strategy
  
  

Why Work At Langston

• Live Flexibly. We are a remote-friendly team, meaning you can live and work from anywhere.
• Learn & Grow: We joke that a year at Langston is like spending three years at business school. Why? We foster a culture of learning and mentorship - both on the job and off. Upon joining the team, you'll find yourself getting exposure to major clients immediately. You'll also be empowered to make real decisions and wrestle with hard problems - all the ingredients for rapid professional growth in a hands-on setting.
• Make an Impact: See your insights get turned into action and implemented in the real world. It's impossible to cruise the aisles of a grocery store, browse the internet, or walk through Times Square and NOT come across a brand Langston serves. Our work matters!
• Recharge. Let's face it: we all need to re-charge, and we don't believe in dictating how much time you should take off. That's why we have an open paid time off policy, meaning you're not limited to a pre-set number of days off per year.
• Keep Well. Get a monthly stipend to spend on anything that makes you feel happy and healthy (like a massage, gym membership, acupuncture, etc.).
  
  

Compensation

Benefits and Perks:

• Live and work from anywhere in the United States
• Traditional company-sponsored healthcare, dental, and vision insurance
• Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, and Long-term Disability - all 100% paid by Langston
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting
• Monthly wellness benefit of $100
• Open Paid Time Off Policy
• Paid parental leave
  
  

Salary Range: $80,000 - $100,000 (based on experience) and discretionary bonus.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should upload:

• Your resume
• A cover letter focused on why you think you'd be a good fit (we love cover letters that are not written by AI)
  
  

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Langston Co. does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We warmly welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, The Langston Co. does not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, disability, age, citizenship, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or because of any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We warmly welcome applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

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