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Our AI platform helps the world's leading research agencies - Dynata, Savanta, Borderless Access - scale 10x faster without sacrificing quality, automating survey programming, data processing, and project management.\n1,000+ surveys processed monthly\n\nServing Fortune 500 companies\n\nBacked by $9M Series A, scaling fast\n\nThe Role\nWe're hiring a Research Manager who lives and breathes primary research - someone who can pick up a business problem and turn it into a sharp questionnaire, then turn the data back into an insights report a client actually acts on.\nYou'll own research quality end-to-end at Metaforms: designing and reviewing questionnaires, sense-checking data, and building reports that hold up to client scrutiny. 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