Consumer Insights Associate Manager

Cricut makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app, an ever-growing collection of materials, and crafting essentials to help you design and personalize almost anything - custom cards, unique apparel, everyday items, and so much more.
Let's make.
Overview
We believe everyone is born creative.
We're a diverse tapestry of thinkers, dreamers, givers, DIYers, handi-workers, artisans, and forever and always architects of things.
At Cricut, we place the power of handmade into the hands of all.
We give you beautiful, easy-to-master tools so you can make something unique, remarkable, perfect.
We surround you with ideas, community, inspiration, and encouragement to take your creativity further than you ever imagined.
And as a community, we celebrate the exhilarating act of making every single day.
So, make that handcrafted card that feels like a hug.
Design a shirt for fun, for family, or for a full-blown business.
Craft with a passion or for a purpose.
Make something big and bold, itsy-bitsy, amazingly ambitious, or just plain silly.
Whatever you make, just make your heart out.
Because here's the remarkable truth:
When we all make together, we make all things possible.
We're searching for a smart and hungry Consumer Insights Manager or Associate Manager.
This pivotal role will shape our approach to launching new products and expanding our brand's presence within the creative project making category.
You will execute Cricut's research agenda, transforming consumer excitement and needs into marketing strategies, new product concepts, and improved consumer experiences.
Collaborating closely with product and marketing managers, you'll design, gather, and analyze research data, from ongoing trackers to adhoc studies, translating insights into marketing, product, and experience strategies.
The range of studies you'll work on spans the gamut, from brand awareness/equity/health trackers, NPS tracking studies, price optimization studies, positioning and/or targeting studies, consumer segmentation, attitudes and usage studies, and concept and campaign testing, to syndicated data analysis.
The ability to conduct qualitative research, including IDIs, online bulletin boards, focus groups, and ethnographies, is a plus.
Responsibilities
Design and execute adhoc research projects from start to finish, including refining and clarifying stakeholder research requests, designing studies, developing questionnaires, programming surveys, fielding surveys using internal or third-party sample, analyzing data, creating final reports, and aligning teams on recommendations
Maintain and evolve tracker studies, such as brand health or NPS
Analyze large survey-based datasets (including syndicated datasets) and conduct analytics like driver analysis
Develop expertise in our existing body of research, extracting key learnings to answer questions and ensure new studies speak to existing insights
Ensure stakeholder buy-in, taking care that stakeholders have digested and know how to apply research findings
Work with cross-functional teams, using insights to drive alignment, actionability, and win-win outcomes
This is a hands-on role, with potential to manage vendors
Qualifications 5+ years of consumer insights experiencein a corporate, matrix-like environment
Deep experience designing and executing quantitative research studies from start to finish
Experience designing, maintaining, and evolving tracker studies
Experience analyzing large survey-based datasets and conducting advanced analytics using SPSS
Skilled at insight generation and synthesis across studies
Knowledge of and adherence to research best practices
Strong project management skills; ability to juggle multiple projects at one time and self-prioritize workload
Excellent communicator and cross-functional relationship builder
Team player who prioritizes team and business needs
Exceptional self-management skills and high EQ
Entrepreneurial spirit, with passion for process improvement
Experience managing vendors a plus
Qualitative research experience a plus
Bachelor's degree, preferably in the social sciences; advanced degree is a plus
Additional Information What to Do Next:
Please attach your resume, cover letter and include links to yourportfolio or other social presence.
If you want to show your super powers in other ways - include that information too.
You can be sure that Cricut is an employer who values individuality, equality and diversity, so tell us what you're all about.
If you are a Maker or a DIY enthusiast, whether you think you are a good one or not, we would love to hear about it when you send us your information.
Cricut is an equal opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
This position is contingent onsuccessfully completing a Criminal Background Check upon hire.Cricut participates in E-Verify.
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