Manager, Consumer Insights

Consumer Insights ManagerInquiSight | Mumbai | Full timeWe run AI-moderated video interviews and surveys with real consumers and deliver insight reports in 24 to 72 hours. The depth a research agency takes six weeks to produce, in three days. Brand teams, CMI leads, D2C founders and consumer VCs use us to test ads, concepts, packaging and category behaviour before the money gets spent.We have paying clients, revenue growing every month, and a founder who has been doing all the research himself. That is the ceiling we need to break. This is our first research hire, and the person who takes it will shape how research gets done here for years.What you will own• Every study, end to end: sharpening the client brief, designing the discussion guide or survey instrument, reviewing fieldwork, running the analysis and writing the topline• The client relationship on the research side. You will be the senior voice in kickoffs and debriefs, the person a CMI head trusts to defend a finding• Quality. Our moderator is AI, our panel is external, our analysis is machine assisted. You decide when the output is good enough to ship and when it is not• The playbook. Ad tests, concept tests, U&A, diligence scans. Turn what works into repeatable formats• Making the product better. You sit closest to where research quality breaks. Your feedback goes straight into the roadmapWho we are looking for• 4 to 6 years in consumer research, agency side (Kantar, Ipsos, Nielsen, Ormax, or a strong mid sized agency) or brand side CMI. If you have a little more experience and want to build rather than climb, we'd still like to hear from you• Genuinely bilingual in qual and quant. You have moderated groups and IDIs, and you have also designed questionnaires, read crosstabs and know what a bad sample looks like• Have delivered to brand and marketing teams and lived through a tough debrief• Write clearly. Your toplines say one thing per slide and the finding is in the title• Fast by temperament. Three day turnarounds excite you rather than worry you• Curious about AI moderation, and honest about where it falls short. We want someone who will push the tool, not defend the old way or wave the new one throughWhat you get• A path to the top job. As the team grows this becomes Head of Research, and you hire the associates under you• Competitive salary, plus ESOPs of up to 3% on a standard four-year vest• A performance variable tied to studies delivered and clients retained• Direct work with the founder and with clients from day one. You sit in the kickoff and the debrief, not three layers below it• Clients across consumer appliances, beauty, FMCG, food and venture capital• Mentorship from our advisors, including senior people from Nielsen and the wider research industry• Learning budget, one conference a year, and active support to publish and speak under your own name