Senior Manager, Consumer Insights & Strategy (Hardware)
The Peloton brand is one of the most special brands in the world. Our mission is to use technology and design to connect the world through fitness, empowering people to be the best version of themselves anywhere, anytime. Peloton’s values inform everything we do, from product strategy, to hiring, to decision-making.
- Put Members First - Design with a user-centered mindset. Obsess over every touchpoint of the member experience.
- Operate with a bias for action - Challenge the status quo by continuously innovating and improving. Take risks, fail fast, and learn from past failures.
- Empower teams of smart creatives - Hire the best and get out of the way. Think and act like owners. Stay lean, scrappy and creative.
- Together we go far - Build a diverse and inclusive community. Uphold the obligation to dissent and listen. Presume trust and be transparent.
THE ROLE:
Peloton is looking for a passionate and strategic-minded Consumer Strategy & Insights Senior Manager to join our growing team. This person will lead key insights and hardware product initiatives end-to-end with the goal of informing strategic business decisions across Global Brand Marketing, Product Marketing, Media, Communications, Membership, Creative, International, Sales, Finance, and Product teams. They will translate complex and at times disparate research learnings into narrative and data-driven analyses that clearly communicate findings and implications for cross-functional stakeholders. They will manage several concurrent key projects for the team, inclusive of both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and will be responsible for managing complex work streams across multiple internal stakeholders, agency, and vendor partners. This person will report to the Director of Consumer Strategy & Insights.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Primary focus area will be hardware product innovation and audience definition:
- Lead qualitative and quantitative consumer research for current and future hardware products
- Synthesize disparate data sources into digestible and actionable reports to be distributed cross-functionally at a monthly and quarterly cadence, identifying and communicating key strategic implications from your analysis
- Manage and guide external partners in the design, edits, and execution of brand tracking efforts based on key business initiatives
- Deliver reports and key talking points to senior leadership, equipping them with relevant intel to share with the board of directors and external stakeholders
- Collaborate with and advise the Product and Product Marketing teams to ensure they have a deep understanding of the target consumer, especially as it relates to consumer needs, behaviors, attitudes, and demographics
You will also identify research needs, help determine the team’s focus areas and project roadmap, and lead complex qualitative and quantitative research to inform key business initiatives globally. Additional focus areas may include: Target audience definition, research informing product development and positioning, message testing, creative testing and optimization.
- Manage qualitative and quantitative research to inform key business initiatives and marketing priorities, collaborating with cross-functional partners to ensure your work meets their strategic needs
- Synthesize research findings into insightful observations with clear, actionable business implications and strategic recommendations
- Develop questionnaires, sample and data analysis plans, screeners, discussion guides, and reporting
- Lead day-to-day project, stakeholder, and budget management of your projects
- Deepen the organizational knowledge of our target consumers as well as our members, representing the consumer and their needs to all teams across the business — always ensuring the consumer has a seat at the table through your in-depth knowledge of their needs, attitudes, and behaviors.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 6+ years of relevant consumer insights-related experience working with world-class consumer brands at a leading consultancy, agency, or in-house marketing team
- Demonstrated expertise on the subject of product innovation and audience definition, especially defining audiences for a portfolio of products under one brand
- Experience conducting primary and secondary research applying mixed methodologies (quantitative + qualitative research)
- Exceptional at finding trends in the data, articulating the “so what,” and translating insights into strategic, actionable recommendations
- Adept at guiding groups with divergent opinions toward a unifying decision, drawing upon data to ground decision-making
- Excellent project management skills, and experience managing distinct vendor relationships
- Must be an independent, strategic, and creative thinker who is a strong team player (no job is too small or too large) and willing to take on additional responsibilities as necessary
- Excellent communication and data story-telling skills, including the ability to clearly present findings and recommendations to diverse stakeholders
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment where priorities are often shifting
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, with the ability to juggle an array of tasks on tight timelines
- Comfortable navigating large datasets, with experience creating dashboards for stakeholders through internal reporting tools (Looker, Tableau, etc.)
- Skilled in Excel and Powerpoint, with ability to translate to Google Suite
ABOUT PELOTON:
Peloton uses technology + design to connect the world through fitness, empowering people to be the best version of themselves anywhere, anytime. We have reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform. Seamlessly combining hardware, software, and streaming technology, we create digital fitness and wellness content and products that Members love. In 2020 Peloton committed to becoming an antiracist organization with the launch of the Peloton Pledge. Learn more, here.
“Together We Go Far” means that we are greater than the sum of our parts, stronger collectively when each one of us is at our best. In order to be the best version of Peloton, we are deeply committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive culture where all of our team members can be the best version of themselves. This work has no endpoint; it is the constant work of running an organization that strives to reach its full potential. As a first step in our commitment, we announced the Peloton Pledge to invest $100 million over the next four years to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world, and to promote health and wellbeing for all, from the inside out.
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