Sr. Research Associate

The role

The Senior Research Associate runs open-ended research projects using the internet to investigate markets, products, companies, and technologies. You will turn findings into clean outputs like matrices, briefs, and landscape maps.

What you will do

• Run open-ended research projects using the internet
• Turn messy findings into clean outputs like matrices, comparison tables, briefs, and landscape maps
• Flag what matters, what is uncertain, and what to look at next
• Use AI tools aggressively to move faster and go wider
• Build lightweight tools, scrapers, or trackers when a project calls for it
• Juggle several unrelated requests at once and reprioritize when things shift

Required qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience
• Bachelor's degree
• AI-native
• Comfortable in ambiguity
• Self-directed but coachable
• Startup-minded
• A strong writer

Nice to have

• Ideally you can vibe code your way to a working script or prototype without waiting on an engineer
• Bonus points if you've hit your usage limit more than once

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k) matching

About the company

We are a private design studio that builds and supports a portfolio of companies and projects across software, hardware, hospitality, and more. This company is an affiliate of Expa's.