Head of Data Consultancy, North America Operations

Walr is the service-first data collection company built for the fast and the ambitious. Founded in 2020, we exist to elevate the role of the market researcher - not by adding more tools to juggle, but by removing the operational heavy lifting so teams can focus on what truly matters: insight, impact, and confidence. What sets Walr apart is relentless speed, obsessive service, and dedicated experts who show up every day for our clients and each other.

We’re a high-growth scale-up with 170+ employees across 9 countries, having doubled our headcount in 2025. At Walr, we’re redefining data collection through unmatched speed, obsessive service, and human expertise that others simply can’t match. Technology powers our momentum, but people make the difference. Here, you’ll be trusted to take ownership, encouraged to think boldly, and backed by a team that moves fast—together.

If you want impact, growth, and the chance to build something that truly matters, Walr is the place to be.

Walr is hiring a senior industry professional to lead the Data Consultancy team and build an industry leading data consultancy proposition in North America. The role will be responsible for directly managing a team of 6+ Data Consultants, leading by example in how we serve clients, and evolving the proposition by improving our ways or working and feeding directly into the product team as they build our proprietary technology platform.

The team as whole is responsible for consulting with clients and coordinating cross-functional teams of survey programmers, sample-only projectmanagersand data processors to deliver high-quality data.

This role is ideal for someone whohas experience of the end-to-end data collection process within quantitativemarketresearch andhasa desire to challenge themselves in ascale-up organization.

The successful candidate will be a critical contributor to two of Walr’s key performance metrics: gross margin and client satisfaction.

• Lead the North American Data Consultancy team, whose job it is to deliver high-quality data to our clients, whilst working in a way that delights them

• Oversee delivery of all projects managed by the team, and be the point of escalation for especially complex or technical projects

• Manage and own select projects that are deemed critical from a client and commercial perspective. For these projects align internal teams and the client on survey design, sample plan,timelines and deliverables,andmakesuggestionsfor improvementthroughoutthe process

• Raise quality and efficiency across all aspects of the team’s work. Look at existing operations with a critical eye, design and implement improved ways or working, and inspire the team to deliver an exceptional service every time

• Act as a senior consultant to clients, looking beyond the immediate project brief to understand their broader objectives, challenge approaches where appropriate, and recommend solutions that balance research quality, respondent experience, feasibility, speed, cost and commercial outcomes

• Demonstrate expert knowledge of the Walr proposition and platform to give clients confidence,and contribute tothegrowth of key client accounts by delivering ahigh quality,professional service

• Ensure understanding and adoption within the team of new platform features developed by the Product & Innovation team

• Translate the needs of clients and the team into platform and feature improvements, and develop a close working relationship with the Product & Innovation team to get these on the roadmap and deployed

• Lead by example in all areas of the role,and support and coach other members of the team

• Partner closely with Commercial throughout the client lifecycle - from pitches, proposals and solution…