Dscout

Lead Research Advisor

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Enterprise Web • Mobile • Professional Services • Software

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The Role

As a Lead Research Advisor at Dscout, you will manage relationships with clients, maximize platform adoption, and supervise a team of Research Advisors, focusing on driving customer success and research outcomes.

Summary Generated by Built In

Dscout is a flexible Experience Research Platform for capturing in-context insights from high-quality participants, bridging the gap between product teams and users. Leading brands like Sonos, Spotify, Duolingo and Best Buy use Dscout to test ideas, iterate quickly, collaborate, and build confidently. We are expanding our smart and driven team and would love for you to join us.

We are looking for a Lead Research Advisor to join our growing Customer Success department. You will drive and grow important relationships by helping our customers find new ways to use our platform, ensuring they achieve maximum value from their investment. This role is a critical function that merges research expertise with a customer success motion, focusing on driving platform adoption and mitigating churn risk. You will also directly manage and work closely with a team of Research Advisors to design, recruit, and field research projects for our customers.

You will have a chance to make a real difference for Dscout’s customers and build your career at the intersection of customer success and research. You are an incredible communicator and a genuine, creative problem-solver. You are our customer’s dedicated partner in success, helping them learn a new digital tool, execute powerful research, and maximize the return on their Dscout subscription. You collaborate closely with Account Directors to help to identify Dscout methodologies that best meet customer needs, build new use cases, identify growth opportunities, and ensure strong platform adoption across their organization. Internally, you are our customers’ champion, driving larger improvements to the platform and overall user experience.

In addition to your work with customers, you enjoy coaching, mentoring, and helping junior staff do their best work every day. The Lead Research Advisor position is among the most central to Dscout’s operations, so you’ll work with people from across the company on a regular basis, especially our product, engineering, and sales teams. If this sounds like you, apply today!

What you will do:

Act as a Dscout expert to train and educate customers on functionality and Dscout methodology, driving wide and deep platform adoption.
Consult with customers to provide specific recommendations for their research designs on our software platform, ensuring successful outcomes and value realization.
Collaborate with customers to run high-impact research projects on Dscout, including planning, design, recruiting, fielding, and client engagement.
Equip customers to derive insights from data using Dscout’s analysis tools.
Work closely with our Sales team to ensure customer retention, identify expansion opportunities, and proactively mitigate risk of churn.
Manage 3-5 Research Advisors, prioritizing workload, coaching on work performance, and professional growth.
Travel occasionally for onsite customer visits where you will build relationships, train and share best practices, and gather feedback to bring directly back to our Product team.
Act as a customer advocate by sharing feedback internally to continuously improve Dscout’s product offerings.
Provide support and guidance to research participants (who we call “Scouts”).

What you need to have:

5+ years experience in research, ideally with exposure to a Customer Success or consulting model.
Lead complex, high-impact research engagements for in-house or for clients across all phases of qualitative research, especially scoping/planning, design, recruiting, fielding, and analysis a plus.
Proven ability to consult with clients/customers to drive product adoption and maximize customer lifetime value.
1+ years of experience as a people manager.
BA/BS degree in anthropology, sociology, market research, design research, HCI related field, or equivalent work experience.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written. Naturally able to strike a balance between friendly and professional in all communications.
Able to work both collaboratively and independently, proven experience collaborating with and mentoring team members.
Strong critical thinking skills; excited by the prospect of creative problem solving in the research and SaaS space alongside colleagues and customers.
Flexible and eager to learn new things each and every day.
Empathetic to others’ needs and circumstances.
Highly organized, efficient, and detail-oriented.
An innate curiosity about how and why people behave the way they do, and a desire to better understand complex behavioral problems and find solutions to those problems.

Of course, what is outlined above is an ideal set of expectations, but things may shift based on business needs, and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.

About Dscout

Dscout is a team of passionate, empathetic, and curious professionals. As a recognized leader in the Forrester Wave, we’re at the cutting edge of experience research technology. The power of research drives us—how in-context insights from real people can build more enjoyable products and services.

We prioritize learning, sharing, and building. We also deeply value being a diverse and inclusive team and company and look for team members who align with that belief. Join our dynamic team and help shape product roadmaps and business strategies for the world’s most loved brands.

It doesn't stop there. When you join the Dscout team, you will get:

* A strong and competitive compensation package with a built-in bonus and equity program.

* An incredible and progressive benefits package (for both you and your dependents) to support work/life balance, including flexible PTO, 16 company holidays, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, 401k match, and much more.

* An education stipend to support your growth & development and a remote work stipend.

* A company that is open and transparent with our team. You will know what is happening and why it matters.

Dscout is an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity. We do not discriminate based on identity, including race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender identity and expression, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

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The Company

HQ: Chicago, IL

180 Employees

Year Founded: 2014

What We Do

Dscout helps companies better understand the experiences people have with their products and brands in everyday life. Our SaaS video research platform helps our customers gather, manage, share and analyze millions of in-context moments submitted by people around the world.

Why Work With Us

Curious. Empathetic. Smart.

We are a crew of curious humans helping the world's most beloved brands become more customer-centric. If this gets you excited, we'd love to hear from you!