The Role
Lead research-driven growth strategy for agency clients and new business: design and run primary/secondary research (including AI-enabled and social listening), translate findings into actionable, implementable strategies, support pitches and account teams, build measurement frameworks, and advise senior stakeholders to drive measurable business outcomes.
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SVP Growth -Insights Strategy
About the Role
We are looking for an exceptional SVP Growth-Insights Strategy to join our Growth team. This is one of the most senior strategic roles within FINN Partners and is suited to an experienced agency strategist with deep research expertise and the judgment to turn findings into clear, actionable strategy. Research is the foundation of this role, and it exists to drive decisions. This person will move fluidly across primary and secondary research, digital and social listening, and AI-enabled methods, using whichever combination best answers the question at hand, and will translate what they learn into insight that reframes how clients see their business, audience, market, or competition. From there, they will make clear strategic recommendations, working closely with specialists across the agency to ensure those recommendations are realistic and implementable. While the role sits within the Growth team and plays a critical part in winning new business, it extends beyond RFPs and pitches. This person will also provide strategic and research leadership on existing client accounts, including engagements they were not involved in winning.
The role requires intellectual curiosity, strong research capability, commercial judgment, and the confidence to make clear recommendations often with limited information and tight deadlines.
Responsibilities
Research & Insight
Skills & Experience
The successful candidate will have:
The ideal candidate will be:
Success will be measured by the ability to:
Anticipated Salary:
$150,000 - $200,000
Commensurate with experience and depending upon the workplace.
Please upload your resume and cover letter, along with your desired salary in $USD.
While we appreciate the interest of all applicants, we will only respond to those whose qualifications closely align with the role.About FINN Partners:
FINN Partners is a global integrated marketing agency recognized as a top employer and an award-winning workplace. We are entrepreneurial, collaborative, and committed to shaping a bold future with clients across technology, healthcare, education, travel, and more. We celebrate creativity, curiosity, and the pursuit of meaningful, impactful work.
Join us to be part of an agency that works hard, plays nice, and always strives for excellence.
About the Role
We are looking for an exceptional SVP Growth-Insights Strategy to join our Growth team. This is one of the most senior strategic roles within FINN Partners and is suited to an experienced agency strategist with deep research expertise and the judgment to turn findings into clear, actionable strategy. Research is the foundation of this role, and it exists to drive decisions. This person will move fluidly across primary and secondary research, digital and social listening, and AI-enabled methods, using whichever combination best answers the question at hand, and will translate what they learn into insight that reframes how clients see their business, audience, market, or competition. From there, they will make clear strategic recommendations, working closely with specialists across the agency to ensure those recommendations are realistic and implementable. While the role sits within the Growth team and plays a critical part in winning new business, it extends beyond RFPs and pitches. This person will also provide strategic and research leadership on existing client accounts, including engagements they were not involved in winning.
The role requires intellectual curiosity, strong research capability, commercial judgment, and the confidence to make clear recommendations often with limited information and tight deadlines.
Responsibilities
Research & Insight
- Lead the design and execution of research across methodologies choosing the right mix for the question, timeline, and budget at hand.
- Shape research methodology around the business question and the strategic decisions the client needs to make.
- Move quickly and resourcefully in new business contexts without compromising the credibility of the findings.
- Develop surveys, questionnaires, sampling approaches, and analytical frameworks when primary research is warranted.
- Personally conduct executive stakeholder interviews, customer interviews, and other in-depth qualitative research.
- Analyze findings alongside market, audience, competitor, and performance data.
- Translate findings into insight that drives a decision: what the evidence says, why it matters, and what the client or FINN should do next.
- Work effectively with specialist researchers, analysts, and external vendors while maintaining strategic ownership of the engagement.
- Develop segmentation models, personas, journeys, and messaging frameworks that can be used and defended in front of senior leadership.
- Maintain a working knowledge of evolving industry landscapes, methodologies, and cultural trends so recommendations stay current.
- Lead the strategic development of new business opportunities and RFP responses, using research to identify the central business challenge and build the case for why FINN is the right partner.
- Develop insight-led strategies that differentiate FINN's proposals and create competitive advantage.
- Translate research and strategy into practical recommendations that client and agency teams can implement.
- Collaborate with creative, digital, PR, media, and account teams to ensure recommendations are realistic and well-supported.
- Present strategic recommendations to prospective clients and senior FINN leadership.
- Build measurement frameworks and KPIs aligned with client objectives.
- Remain engaged following successful pitches to preserve continuity and support implementation.
- Manage multiple opportunities and engagements simultaneously, balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
- Serve as a trusted research and strategy adviser to senior clients.
- Provide strategic leadership on existing client accounts, including those where you were not involved in the original pitch.
- Quickly get up to speed on unfamiliar businesses, industries, and operating environments.
- Communicate complex findings and recommendations clearly and confidently, earning stakeholder buy-in through the credibility and rigor of the work rather than force of personality.
- Identify opportunities to grow existing client relationships through additional research or strategic consulting.
Skills & Experience
The successful candidate will have:
- Minimum 15 years of strategic experience, with the majority gained in an agency or consulting environment.
- Significant experience designing and leading research across a range of methodologies.
- Strong judgment about data quality and rigor, balanced with the scrappiness to move fast when new business timelines demand it.
- Strong knowledge of survey design, sampling, research methodology, analysis, and insight development.
- Experience personally conducting executive, stakeholder, and customer interviews.
- Proven track record leading strategy for complex pitches, RFPs, and new business opportunities.
- Ability to synthesize large volumes of information into a clear strategic point of view.
- Excellent strategic storytelling, presentation, and facilitation skills, grounded in command of the evidence and the ability to defend a recommendation under scrutiny.
- A track record of earning the confidence of senior stakeholders through the quality and credibility of their work.
- A strong point of view on where marketing, media, and culture are heading.
- Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect research and strategy to measurable business outcomes.
- Comfort working with ambiguity, limited information, and evolving client requirements.
The ideal candidate will be:
- Intellectually curious and insight driven.
- Methodologically flexible and resourceful, with good instincts for when data is solid enough to act on.
- Decisive, with the judgment to make a clear recommendation rather than present a list of options.
- Commercially minded and focused on business outcomes.
- Confident and credible in the room, earning trust through command of the work rather than salesmanship.
- Structured and analytical, without losing sight of the bigger picture.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and incomplete information.
- Proactive and self-directed.
- Passionate about solving complex business and growth challenges.
Success will be measured by the ability to:
- Win new business through differentiated, research-backed strategic thinking.
- Lead credible research that uncovers meaningful business and audience opportunities.
- Translate research into decisions clients act on and business FINN wins.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Grow existing client relationships through valuable strategic consulting.
- Create measurable business impact for FINN and its clients.
Anticipated Salary:
$150,000 - $200,000
Commensurate with experience and depending upon the workplace.
Please upload your resume and cover letter, along with your desired salary in $USD.
While we appreciate the interest of all applicants, we will only respond to those whose qualifications closely align with the role.About FINN Partners:
FINN Partners is a global integrated marketing agency recognized as a top employer and an award-winning workplace. We are entrepreneurial, collaborative, and committed to shaping a bold future with clients across technology, healthcare, education, travel, and more. We celebrate creativity, curiosity, and the pursuit of meaningful, impactful work.
Join us to be part of an agency that works hard, plays nice, and always strives for excellence.
Skills Required
- Minimum 15 years of strategic experience, majority in agency or consulting
- Significant experience designing and leading research across multiple methodologies
- Strong knowledge of survey design, sampling, research methodology, analysis, and insight development
- Experience personally conducting executive, stakeholder, and customer interviews
- Proven track record leading strategy for complex pitches, RFPs, and new business opportunities
- Ability to synthesize large volumes of information into a clear strategic point of view
- Excellent strategic storytelling, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Strong judgment about data quality and the scrappiness to move fast under tight timelines
- Commercial acumen and ability to connect research and strategy to measurable business outcomes
- Working knowledge of marketing, media, and cultural trends and methodological flexibility (including AI-enabled methods and social listening)
Finn Partners Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Finn Partners and has not been reviewed or approved by Finn Partners.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with employer-paid base employee coverage, plus HSA/FSA options and mental health resources. Wellness support such as an annual subsidy and access to counseling and virtual therapy reinforces breadth of care.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off encompasses vacation/PTO, numerous paid holidays, sick and personal days, monthly half-days, Summer Days, and a paid Winter Break. Additional paid time for volunteering and Election Day supports balance and community involvement.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching (100% up to 3% plus 50% on the next 2%) is available after six months. The match structure and eligibility timeline provide tangible support for retirement savings.
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What We Do
1400+ People. 3 Continents. 33 Offices. We are a global integrated marketing agency transforming and inspiring the world of communications every day. A LETTER FROM PETER FINN: DECEMBER 2011. FINN PARTNERS WAS BORN. After 11 years serving as co-CEO of an historic agency that carried my father’s name— and mine!—and after 30+ years of working at the firm, I wanted to build something different, bold, meaningful and amazing for clients, our colleagues and the community. "Amazing" was, and is, for me an important word. I imagined we could be "amazing" every day, knowing this is a goal not always achieved but always pursued. A place where talented people could gather and do big things for clients as well as make a difference to the communities important to us. WE LAUNCHED WITH A GROUP WHO SHARED A VISION. This was to be a "new" agency model, driven by a collaborative spirit. We asked, "Can we bind our 60-year legacy to the energy and speed of today’s hi-tech world?" We had $24 million in fees at our founding. Today, we have more than $85 million in fees, over 700 colleagues and 18 offices across three continents. Our Founding Managing Partners, highly respected colleagues who took the leap with me from our former agency, have been joined by the principals of other great agencies that became Finn Partner companies. So many other talented individuals are with us, too, intrigued by the idea of doing amazing things in an amazing workplace community. WE’VE MADE OUR MARK QUICKLY. Finn Partners has been named “Best New Agency,” “Best PR Agency to Work for in North America” and“Best Mid-Sized Agency of the Year” three times. Now, we’re one of the world’s largest agencies. WE ARE A YOUNG AGENCY. We share the genes of a respected agency that pioneered today’s integrated communications. But we are not them. We are unique. We are ourselves. We are focused on the future, building that future during each amazing day.
