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# Research Manager at Metaforms

- **Company:** Metaforms
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/metaforms/48a9c8a3-5b21-4704-bf45-3b12fe19ea57

## Job description

## About Metaforms

Metaforms is redefining how market research gets done. 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.

- 1,000+ surveys processed monthly
- Serving Fortune 500 companies
- Backed by $9M Series A, scaling fast

## The Role

We'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. You'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. You'll also be the research conscience for our product and engineering teams — making sure the AI we build actually reflects how good research gets done, not a shortcut version of it.

## What You'll Do

- Design questionnaires from a brief: objectives, sampling plan, screener logic, scale choice, routing — the full craft, not just clean-up
- Review and QA questionnaires and data for methodological soundness (bias, leading questions, sampling issues, logic errors)
- Turn survey data into insights reports and decks that make a clear, defensible argument — not just banner tables
- Be the domain expert other teams call on for “is this research right” — Product, Engineering, AI teams included
- Partner with Product & Engineering to make sure AI-powered research tools (auto-programming, auto-tabbing, auto-reporting) meet the bar a good researcher would hold them to
- Test and give structured feedback on new tools/prototypes before they ship
- Train and calibrate other researchers and tech teams on research standards and edge cases

## What We're Looking For

Core

- 5+ years in market research, with real ownership of questionnaires and insights reports — not just fielding or coordination
- Strong grounding in questionnaire design, sampling, and methodology
- Can independently write an insights report that tells a story, not just describe charts
- Sharp eye for what's wrong with a survey or a dataset
- Comfortable being the person who says "this isn't good research" to a client or a product team

Bonus

- Experience working alongside survey programmers / DP teams
- Hands-on with Excel, PowerPoint, and a BI/viz tool (Tableau, Power BI, Displayr, [Crunch.io](http://Crunch.io))
- Curiosity about how AI changes research ops — not required to be technical, just not allergic to it

## Why Join Metaforms

- Work at the frontier of AI-powered market research
- Your research judgment directly shapes the product, not just a project
- Zero-bureaucracy culture — speed, quality, customer impact
- Series A funded, scaling fast

## Benefits

- Full family health insurance
- $1,000 USD/year for skill development
- Dedicated mentor/coach support
- Free lunch & dinner at office
- Monthly food/snacks allowance

## About Metaforms

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Metaforms provides an AI-powered platform that automates and augments market research operations for agencies, covering survey programming, data processing, bidding, sample management, and voice research.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Akshat Tyagi (CEO), Arjun S (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Market Research Technology (Market Research Operations / AI for Research)
- **Target customers**: B2B — Market research agencies, insights teams, and survey programmers
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Making research accessible to every business" by giving market research agencies AI superpowers to deliver insights 10x faster.

## Products & Services
- **Survey Programming (AI-Copilot)**: An AI agent that generates production-ready survey code (SPSS, Dimensions, Python, JavaScript) from uploaded questionnaires. Handles complex logic like MaxDiff, segmentation, piping, and loops. Includes version control, multi-programmer workflows, and real-time error detection.
- **Data Processing**: AI that flags discrepancies, handles complex validation logic, and integrates with existing macros and workflows to automate data cleaning and processing.
- **Bidding Management**: Transforms incoming client emails/RFPs into structured project specifications, identifies missing requirements, and generates accurate quotes using the agency's exact pricing logic.
- **Sample Management**: Automatically routes sample requests to the best suppliers, tracks and re-balances quotas across vendors in real-time, and consolidates responses into cost/feasibility comparisons.
- **Voice Research**: AI-moderated voice interviews at scale, automating scheduling, respondent screening, and data capture, delivering structured insights.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Raised $9 Million in Series A funding (announced 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly named in available sources; investors are listed as part of the Series A round.
- **Growth Signals**: 58 employees as of mid-2025; offices in New York (HQ), Bengaluru, and San Francisco; trusted by "world's leading agencies"; growing team with open roles in product engineering, customer success, and product management.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical-Specific AI**: Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Metaforms is purpose-built for the market research industry, learning agency-specific coding styles, standards, and pricing logic.
- **End-to-End Workflow Coverage**: The platform spans the entire research operations lifecycle—from RFP response and bidding, through survey programming and data processing, to sample management and voice interviews—creating a deep moat.
- **Enterprise-Grade Security**: SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, and offers custom security documentation for enterprise clients. Explicitly states no training on customer data.
- **Pattern Learning**: AI adapts to each agency's coding style and preferences in real-time, making it stickier and harder to replace.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to build out AI agents across all research workflows (bidding, programming, data processing, sample management, voice).
- **Enterprise Sales**: Deepening integrations with Salesforce and major PM tools, and offering API/email-based workflows to fit existing processes.
- **Scaling the Team**: Actively hiring across product engineering, customer success, and product management to support growth.
- **Market Penetration**: Targeting traditional market research agencies that are constrained by manual processes, enabling them to take on more clients and projects.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven team focused on making research accessible to every business. Described as a place where "every business decision should be informed."
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid and in-office roles available depending on location and function. Offices in New York (HQ), Bengaluru, and San Francisco.
- **Team & Growth**: 58 employees and growing. Early-stage startup environment with the opportunity to shape the product and culture.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on building AI agents that "get your business." Roles like Senior Product Engineer and Senior Product Manager are currently open.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company highlights 24/7 support for clients and a "build the future with us" ethos.

## Sources
1. [metaforms.ai](https://www.metaforms.ai/)
2. [metaforms.ai/about](https://www.metaforms.ai/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/metaformsai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/metaformsai)
4. [builtin.com/company/metaforms](https://builtin.com/company/metaforms)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/metaforms](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/metaforms)

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