Experienced Freelance Quantitative Researcher (UK, Brighton)

Player Research; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading research partner in gaming is seeking an Experienced Freelance Quantitative Researcher. You will work with a dedicated team, delivering end-to-end projects while influencing research methods and synthesizing data into actionable insights. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 4 years of market research experience and skills in project management. Hybrid work preferred, with flexibility for remote projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience in Quantitative Market research.
• Proven analytical skills and a thirst for accuracy.
• Experience in project managing and delivering market research.

Responsibilities

• Drive client briefing meetings and deliver cohesive output.
• Influence research methods based on client aims.
• Write and deliver concise, well-structured reports.

Skills

Quantitative Market research

Analytical skills

Project management

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Office

Google Suite

Keynote

Job description

Experienced Freelance Quantitative Researcher (UK, Brighton)

• Format: Freelance
• Location: UK Brighton
• Reports to: Market Research Project Director & People Manager

We are expanding our Market Research Freelancer database.

We are looking for experienced freelance Quantitative researchers, passionate about games and entertainment to contribute to projects both in the UK and internationally. You will work alongside our expert Games User Research team, each bringing their unique perspectives; each offering rich insight to our client studios, and ultimately adding capability our market research offering.

About Player Research

At Player Research we want the world to experience brilliant games; ones full of adventure, surprise and intrigue – the ones you can’t put down, and those you talk about for days.

Across the world we partner with game development teams to realise their creative visions by providing meaningful insight into how real players experience play.

We are the world’s premier partner for games user research. From our Brighton and Montreal studios we design and conduct award-winning user experience studies for video games: usability testing, expert reviews, engagement diaries, full playthroughs, market research, training courses, accessibility testing… and so much more.

We uncover insights that drive game development forward.

About the role

We’re looking for someone who can work both autonomously and with our team, to deliver end to end projects under the Player Research banner. Typical engagements may involve:

• Collaborating with our team of User Researchers on the full project lifecycle from driving client briefing meetings through to delivering cohesive output, challenging when obstacles can be anticipated
• Influencing research methods based on client aims
• Working on briefs exploring brand, landscape, pricing, and audience strategy
• Writing participant specs, designing, deploying and managing large scale surveys and data collection
• Familiarising yourself with the game titles in study
• Synthesising data into actionable insights and recommendations
• Writing and delivering concise, well-structured reports and presentations.

Do you fit the brief?

• You are an experienced Quantitative Market researcher from an agency or clientside background (minimum 4 years), passionate about seeing effective research delivered
• You bring unique and relevant knowledge from your prior industry experience, and in turn help your co-workers deliver evermore persuasive consultative guidance to our clients
• You have a strong instinct for what a good market research study looks like, can anticipate obstacles and identify solutions to tackle them
• Confident leading segmentations, innovation, pricing and brand studies
• Familiar with leading end to end projects, project managing and delivering exceptional rigorous market research, on time and on budget
• You have a thirst for accuracy, and proven analytical skills
• You transform data into compelling story led, actionable reports, tailored to the clients’ research aims
• Experience building trust and rapport, collaborating effectively and problem solving with confidence
• Familiarity with Office, Google Suite and Keynote

Location

• Our team work hybrid from our Brighton Studio, commuting distance to Brighton (UK) is preferred. Fully remote projects will arise intermittently
• Please identify on your application your current location and whether you have an existing right to work in the UK.

We arenotaccepting CVs from agencies at this time.

We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion (or lack thereof), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, parental status, or disability. Player Research doesn’t simply accept differences — we actively celebrate and support it for the benefit of our job applicants, our employees, our services, and our community.

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