Strategic Insights, Senior Researcher [Market Insights]

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 550 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together? </span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strategic Insights helps PrizePicks make sharper decisions through rigorous consumer, market, and business understanding. As a Senior Researcher on the team, you’ll connect internal operational data, external market intelligence, and targeted research to explain what is changing and what the business should do next.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>What you’ll do</strong></span></h2>
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<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own a portfolio of syndicated market-intelligence data sources, ensuring data quality, useful reporting cadences, and clear access to the market signals teams need.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Analyze internal operational data alongside external market, consumer, and competitive data to identify meaningful trends, reconcile conflicting signals, and distinguish durable change from noise.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Translate business questions into focused research objectives and analysis plans, leveraging hypotheses, success measures, and the right approach for answering them using existing data, primary research, or both.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead the delivery of research that contextualizes market and business trends, including study briefs, partner management, quality review, analysis, synthesis, and stakeholder action.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build repeatable views of category health, customer behavior, competitive movement, and market shifts that help teams track change over time and make faster, better-informed decisions.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Turn complex analyses into clear recommendations that connect market, consumer, and business trends to key metrics and strategic goals, clarifying what is happening, why it matters, and what to investigate, prioritize, or change next.</span></li>
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<h2><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>What you bring</strong></span></h2>
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<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">5+ years of hands-on experience in market research, consumer insights, market intelligence, business analytics, strategy, or a closely related discipline.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience combining operational, customer, or product data with syndicated, market, competitive, or consumer data to answer real business questions.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with hands-on capability in Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, a business-intelligence platform, or comparable analytical tools.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience personally designing and delivering quantitative and qualitative research, owning methodology, quality, synthesis, and recommendation end to end.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deep experience with generating and analyzing survey data, leveraging advanced analysis methodologies</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Comfort running qualitative studies and cog tests as needed to complement quantitative analyses.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Exceptional ownership and follow-through. </span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">You use AI-enabled research and analysis tools responsibly for synthesis, open-text analysis, or workflow acceleration, with human validation and sound judgment.</span></li>
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<h2><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>What sets you apart</strong></span></h2>
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<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Experience in sports, gaming, entertainment, consumer technology, or another culturally fast-moving category.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A record of building repeatable feedback systems that improve decisions across fast-moving launch cycles.</span></li>
<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who can move comfortably between data, research, and business context. You will not simply report trends; you will explain their implications and help PrizePicks act on them.</span></li>
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<h1><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Where you’ll live:</strong></span></h1>
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<li style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates. #LI-Remote </span></li>
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<h1><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Working at PrizePicks:</strong></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The typical salary range for this position is $130,000 to $145,000. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Date Posted:  9/23/26</span></p>
<p> </p><div class="content-conclusion"><h1><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Benefits you’ll receive:</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks: </span></p>
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<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans </span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">401(k) plan with company match</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Annual bonus</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Company-wide in-person events and team outings</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lifestyle enhancement program</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.  We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.</span></em></span></p></div>