About.com: Research Director, NYC

About.com, a top 10 Web property that is part of The New York Times Company, is seeking a Research Director for our NYC office. S/he will analyze and provide user information, including traffic trends, demographics and lifestyle data, to all units at About.com as well as relevant stakeholders at NYTimes.com, Boston.com and The New York Times newspaper.

Requirements:

- Minimum of 7-10 years of applicable research experience, with at least 3 years in an online environment. MBA preferred.

- Ability to understand and articulate industry trends in key verticals from a marketing research perspective.

- Skilled in initiating, designing, analyzing, and presenting primary research projects.

- Experience with developing/presenting marketing research, sales research, and product/UI research.

- Experience and proficience with in-person, email and phone interactions with ad agency peers on research and understanding application of ratings with buyers.

- Familiarity with AdRelevance, Nielsen/NetRatings, comScore Media Metrix, CMRi, Evaliant, @plan, and other online research tools to analyze and interpret site visitor data and statistics, advertiser and industry trends and intelligence.

For more info, please see http://jobs.about.com. Send resume and salary reqs. to work@about.com.

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