Manager, Insights and Intelligence

Description

Washington, DC

Reports to: Director, Insights and Intelligence

Invariant seeks a Manager to join the growing Insights and Intelligence team. You will help turn data, research, narrative intelligence, and digital signals into clear insights and actionable recommendations for clients.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to some of the most disruptive startups in the country. We help them solve complex challenges, stay ahead of market trends, understand stakeholder behavior, assess reputational risk, and navigate competitive, regulatory, and policy environments. We use data, research, analytics, and intelligence to inform strategy, reduce risk, and identify opportunities for growth.

Invariant is a different kind of firm. We look at data, communications, public affairs, government relations, reputation, and business strategy together. In this role, you will help clients understand the narratives, stakeholders, networks, and information environments shaping public perception and trust. You will use data, research, and intelligence platforms to surface risks, map opportunities, and translate complex information into clear findings and strategic guidance.

You will do challenging, impactful work here. If that sounds interesting to you, come join us.

What you’ll do

· Support research, analytics, and intelligence projects, including data collection, analysis, reporting, and presentation development.

· Conduct narrative intelligence, social listening, stakeholder mapping, competitive intelligence, and reputational research across digital, media, policy, and cultural environments.

· Use Blackbird.AI to help identify emerging narratives, influence networks, coordinated amplification, bot activity, misinformation trends, and connected cohorts that may create reputational, financial, operational, or policy risk.

· Build and refine Brandwatch queries, dashboards, landscape reports, and recurring intelligence products that support client strategy and business development.

· Monitor emerging issues, stakeholder conversations, competitor activity, misinformation risks, and regulatory or policy developments relevant to client priorities.

· Synthesize narrative, audience, stakeholder, and market dynamics into clear findings, implications, and recommendations for communications, public affairs, crisis, advocacy, reputation, and business strategy teams.

· Review and interpret qualitative and quantitative data from diverse sources and convert findings into client-ready memos, reports, presentations, and visualizations.

· Support rapid-response analysis during high-profile reputational, policy, corporate, legislative, regulatory, or crisis situations.

· Present findings clearly to internal teams and, when appropriate, client stakeholders.

· Partner with account teams to integrate data and intelligence into communications plans, public affairs campaigns, corporate reputation programs, stakeholder engagement strategies, and crisis response efforts.

· Support the development of research approaches that combine quantitative analysis, qualitative investigation, narrative intelligence, and human judgment.

· Track new AI tools, intelligence platforms, and analytical methods that improve media monitoring, narrative analysis, stakeholder intelligence, and strategic reporting.

· Contribute to reporting templates, analytical frameworks, and repeatable research approaches that strengthen Invariant's Data and Insights offerings.

· Support new business efforts through competitive intelligence, industry research, stakeholder analysis, pitch support, and tailored insights for prospective clients.

Who you are

· Four to seven years of experience in intelligence, analytics, public affairs, strategic communications, consulting, market research, corporate reputation, media intelligence, or a related field.

· Strong researcher and analytical thinker with the ability to identify meaningful patterns across complex information environments.

· Excellent communicator with strong writing, editing, presentation, and storytelling skills.

· Experience with social listening, narrative intelligence, reputation monitoring, stakeholder analysis, competitive intelligence, audience research, or digital intelligence programs.

· Familiarity with Brandwatch, Blackbird.AI, Meltwater, Talkwalker, Quid, Sprinklr, Zignal, or similar intelligence and analytics platforms.

· Strong qualitative and quantitative research capabilities, including experience synthesizing information from multiple sources, identifying trends, and drawing defensible conclusions.

· Experience conducting research across digital, media, policy, stakeholder, and competitive environments.

· Ability to synthesize research findings and communicate implications for business, policy, reputational, and stakeholder outcomes.

· Demonstrated curiosity and eagerness to learn new research methods, analytical tools, and intelligence platforms.

· Deep interest in public affairs, corporate reputation, stakeholder behavior, influence, digital culture, emerging technologies, and the evolving information environment.

· Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving situations where judgment, curiosity, and strategic thinking are as important as technical expertise.

· Strong client-service orientation and ability to manage multiple projects, competing priorities, and deadlines simultaneously.

· Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of maintaining quality while operating in a fast-paced environment.

· Experience supporting communications, public affairs, corporate affairs, crisis, policy, advocacy, or reputation management efforts is preferred.

· Experience with AI-enabled research workflows, narrative intelligence platforms, and emerging analytical technologies is a plus.

· Experience in an agency, consulting, public affairs, communications, media, corporate reputation, or intelligence environment is preferred.

· Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in public policy, communications, political science, international affairs, business, data analytics, or a related field is a plus.

Salary range is $95,000 – $120,000 and will be determined based on skills, experience, and market data.

In addition, our total rewards package includes an annual discretionary bonus based on individual performance and that of the firm; commissions; robust medical, dental, and vision plans with employer HSA contributions; generous retirement matching; educational assistance; professional development assistance; unlimited time off; and other benefits.

Invariant is committed to creating a diverse culture and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.