Head of Insights

Location: Bengaluru | In Person

About the Role:

A fast growing, AI powered consumer research and insights platform is looking to hire its first Head of Insights to build and shape the insights function as the business scales.

This is a high ownership role for someone who can bring strong research craft, commercial thinking and senior client management experience, while also building the team, methodologies and standards that will define the organisation's insights practice.

You will own the quality, sharpness and commercial relevance of the insights delivered to clients and help build a high calibre research function from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Research Quality & Team Building:

- Review and elevate research outputs across active client engagements

- Build research methodologies, playbooks, templates and quality standards

- Coach the team on research framing, synthesis, storytelling and insight generation

- Build and grow the senior research team as the function scales

2. Senior Client Partnership:

- Lead conversations with senior insights, brand and marketing stakeholders

- Translate ambiguous business briefs into clear and meaningful research questions

- Present insights in a way that connects research findings to business actions and decisions

- Build strong, trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders

3. Business Growth & Product Collaboration:

- Identify opportunities to deepen existing client engagements and build longer term partnerships

- Bring a strong understanding of client needs and market trends to the product team

- Help shape the evolution of the platform based on real world consumer research requirements

- Act as a bridge between client needs, insights methodology and product development

What We Are Looking For:

The ideal candidate would bring strong experience across consumer insights, market research, brand strategy, account planning or strategy consulting.

Relevant backgrounds could include:

- Leading research firms

- Advertising or media agency planning teams

- Consumer brands with established insights functions

- Strategy consulting firms with strong consumer or brand practices

You should ideally:

- Have led research engagements end to end with senior client stakeholders

- Have strong judgement around what makes research sharp, actionable and commercially relevant

- Be comfortable being the most senior insights professional in the room

- Have experience building or mentoring high performing research teams

- Be curious about how AI and technology are transforming consumer research

- Be comfortable operating in a high ownership, entrepreneurial environment

- Be excited by the opportunity to build a new age insights practice from the ground up

Who This Role May Not Be For:

This role may not be the right fit if you are looking for:

- A fully established insights function with existing processes and teams

- A highly structured or traditional agency or research environment

- A role focused primarily on execution rather than building the function and its methodology

Compensation:

The organisation offers compensation at the senior end of the Indian insights market, along with meaningful ESOP participation appropriate for a Head of function at an early stage organisation.

About the Organisation:

A high growth, AI powered consumer research platform helping brands make consumer research faster, simpler and more actionable.

The organisation is backed by leading investors and experienced entrepreneurs and is building a new age consumer insights practice with ambitions to scale across India and global markets.

The team operates from Bengaluru and follows an in person working model.

This is a confidential leadership opportunity. Further details about the organisation will be shared with shortlisted candidates during the process.