Backed by South Park Commons.
About the role
As a Forward Deployed Researcher, you will be the human at the center of a Keplar engagement. You’ll partner directly with senior client stakeholders to carry out complex research programs supported by dedicated Keplar agentic tooling that lets one expert get deep insights and run analysis, which previously required an agency team of five, all in under 72 hours. You will design the learning agenda, run the studies, interrogate the data, and deliver the strategic recommendations.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years in a consumer insights or market research leadership role, with demonstrated experience of shaping the research practice and developing innovative practices
- CPG and/or retail exposure is a big plus — vendor-side, supplier-side, or client-side backgrounds all welcome if the craft is there
- A flexible mindset. The "how" of insights is rapidly evolving, and with it, the role of insights in a marketing function itself. To excel, you'll have to think beyond qual and quant, beyond 1-off projects, and help us redefine the industry as a whole
- A consultant's instinct. You can sit with an ambiguous business problem, find the real question, and earn a stakeholder's trust. You're comfortable being the face of the work
- A desire to work at the frontier of tooling. You're excited to work alongside AI agents, to let them handle execution while you hold the judgment, and to help make the tools better
- Autonomy and ownership. You can run an engagement end-to-end and be the single point of accountability for its quality
More about this role
tl;dr: We're hiring our first Forward Deployed Researcher to deliver the next generation of full-service research. The Forward Deployed Researcher role is designed for researchers who are pushing the boundaries of what it means to work with AI every day. You'll work directly with brands to go from business questions to insights with high efficiency, helping insights teams innovate on how they work to deliver exceptional data to business stakeholders.
Keplar is an end-to-end consumer insights platform built around a voice-AI interviewer that conducts real-time, dynamic, 1:1 conversations with consumers at scale. Keplar conversations feel human and get people to open up, free from moderator fatigue and bias. Keplar is built specifically for iconic consumer brands that quite literally shape the world we live in.
Founded in 2022 and backed by Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, Common Metal, and South Park Commons, Keplar serves leading brands including Clorox, Intercom, SC Johnson, Tecovas, and Marzetti.
A role that doesn't exist anywhere else: senior research craft paired with agentic tooling to deliver full-service deep insights. From study design through the final recommendation. A...
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