Location
London, UK (Hybrid; 2 days in the office per week)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary offered

About the Role
Think Stylist, part of the DC Thomson media and publishing company, is a cultural insight consultancy focused on decoding the lives, mindsets, and behaviours of modern women. We help brands keep pace with a fast-evolving audience by blending editorial instinct with real-time data and analysis to turn cultural understanding into relevance, innovation, and growth. The Research Assistant will join our small, ambitious insight team based in our London office on Fleet Street, playing a pivotal role in shaping the quality of our thinking, output, and commercial success.

This hands-on role combines community building, research analysis, and delivery. You will take ownership of our research communities, ensuring high-quality data and engagement, and support insight projects from design through to delivery. You will also help evolve our use of AI tools to track, analyse, and surface trends at scale, ensuring our insight creates real commercial opportunity.

Key responsibilities include:
- Community & Panel Management: Own and evolve the Think Stylist research panel by managing onboarding, engagement, retention, communications, and panel health monitoring.
- Insight Collective (Thinkfluencers): Lead our community of culturally engaged women, manage relationships, review contributions, identify trends, produce monthly insight reports, create engaging content, and coordinate payments and scheduling.
- Research Delivery & Insight Support: Support insight projects across their lifecycle including survey scripting, data analysis, AI-assisted synthesis, and report creation.
- AI & Insight Innovation: Support and experiment with AI tools to improve insight generation and research workflows.
- Commercial & Growth Support: Assist in translating insight into commercial opportunities through research, lead sourcing, outreach support, and identifying potential opportunities.

We are a small team doing culturally relevant work with real responsibility from day one, supported to grow quickly and surrounded by people passionate about creating impactful insight that genuinely reflects women’s lives.

Experience
- Previous hands-on experience in market research and associated platforms
- Experience with survey tools, research platforms, or community management tools
- Exposure to qualitative and/or quantitative research environments
- Interest in cultural trends, media, and audience behaviour
- Awareness of AI tools in research or data environments

About You
- Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal) and strong organisational skills
- Ability to apply standard research methods, support study design, gather and analyse data
- Skilled in using data tools and techniques to explore, interpret, and present data
- Experience planning and conducting user research activities and synthesising findings
- Ability to produce clear, structured written and visual outputs for insight communication
- Strong relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders
- Proficient in using agreed tools, techniques, and processes effectively, including research platforms and AI tools
- Able to work under general direction, exercise discretion, and prioritise workload to meet deadlines
- Clear communicator with stakeholders at working level
- Problem-solving skills applied to straightforward issues
- Demonstrates learning agility and adapts to new tools and methods

Qualifications
- Essential: Practical experience in market research and community management
- Desirable: Experience in research, panel management, or community platforms; exposure to survey tools or insight work

Behaviours We Value
- Being More Curious: Actively seeks patterns, signals, and insight beyond surface level; tests assumptions and asks for evidence
- Experiment with Purpose: Uses AI and new tools to improve insight generation and efficiency; runs controlled tests to improve panel engagement and research methods
- Owning the Outcomes: Takes responsibility for panel performance, data quality, and delivery standards; tracks metrics and takes corrective action proactively
- Being More Collaborative: Shares insight, tools, and learning across projects and teams; works effectively with commercial, editorial, and data teams to maximise impact