Careers

YouGov is a global market research organization. We help our clients understand their consumers, their market and the wider world through custom research and syndicated products built upon continuous streams of data.

Our team includes experts in the fields of marketing, market research, political science, polling, statistics, and information technology. We are passionate about making a measurable impact in all that we do –and we are always looking out for new talent.

How to Apply

• Send an email to jobs.us@yougov.com. Put the job position's title in the subject line of your email.
• Send a link to an online resume or attach a PDF (under 3MB) to your email.
• In the body of your email, put a short description of yourself and why you are the right person for this job.
• Include your salary requirements in the body of the email.
• Please do not make unsolicited phone calls or send large email attachments.
• Principals only.

If you think you can bring something special to YouGov but don't see a position below that matches your skills, please send us your resume.

Current Openings:

Junior Research Executive - NYC

Department Omnibus

Overall Objective

This is an entry position, and you will be trained to acquire the skills needed for this role. You will develop an understanding of the business and research objectives and help to design solutions through knowledge of project and questionnaire design, sampling processes, weighting and production of deliverables.  In this role you will assist in managing research projects through the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Sample Design: understand the different sample designs.
• Questionaire Design: understand the advantages and disadvantages of different data collection methods and the principles of questionnaire design. You will be responsible for designing simple questionnaires, or discrete modules, and specify programmes under guidance.  You will work with clients through iterations of a questionnaire to reach a final version.
• Survey implementation: develop and organise questionnaire development and testing scenarios, draft survey and briefing/debriefing documents, and contribute to the design and delivery of interviewer briefings under guidance.
• Data analysis: possess a good understanding of the use of percentages, means, standard errors, medians and confidence intervals.  You will design, produce and interpret simple cross tabulation analysis and have a basic understanding of statistical testing, and how sampling and weighting issues affect analysis.  You wil begin to have a basic understanding of some of the advanced statistical analysis techniques available
• Presentation and report writing: possess a good, clear writing style and understand different uses of tables, charts and commentary.  In this role you will write, with guidance, report content and contribute to the drafting of presentations.  A degree of user competence with MS PowerPoint attained through ‘on the job’ experience or specific training is expected.
• Proposal writing: write, or contribute to, client proposals.
• Subject knowledge: grasp the basic policy/subject knowledge required to carry out specific projects and begin to develop contextual knowledge about a specialist area, either in terms of research type or the sector.
• Project management: co-ordinate and manage different project tasks and set timetables.
• Client liaison: liaise, with guidance, effectively with clients and collaborators.  You will be the main contact for day to day aspects of a project.
• Project costing and financial management: possess basic understanding of principles of costing.  You will monitor days spent on allocated tasks and tasks allocated to research assistants, and discuss with more senior staff any possible discrepancies between budgeted and actual days spent (or likely to be spent) on a task.

Skills required

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Developing initiative, negotiation and influencing skills
• Problem-solving, analytical and numerical skills
• Ability to deliver results, meet deadlines and manage time effectively

Personal attributes

• Self-discipline
• Self motivation
• Positive attitude
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent written, oral and electronic communication skills

Education and qualifications

• Educated up to degree level in a relevant subject
• Strong SPSS, Powerpoint and Excel skills
• Fluent written and spoken English 

Researcher - NYC, NY

Description

YouGov is seeking an ambitious, motivated, and entrepreneurial candidate to drive research & analysis for its data products. The products include YouGov's successful BrandIndex product as well as its new products CategoryView (an extension of BrandIndex), InvestorView (a survey product targeting institutional investors and advisors), and the Household Economic Activity Tracker (a macroeconomic survey data product).

The successful candidate will be focused on producing research based on YouGov's Data Products. The candidate will drive each stage of the research process -- developing research ideas, experimental design, analyze data (including use of sophisticated statistical methods), and translating results into client-ready output (e.g., presentations and white papers).  The most successful of candidates will also take an active role in helping to build and improve the products themselves. In addition, excitement to build new products, including comfort with ambiguity and taking on new responsibilities, will be critical.

Necessary qualifications:

• Impeccable professional and personal integrity
• Graduate degree (MA, MS, or Ph.D.) in marketing, economics, psychology, social science, or similar discipline. Candidates with Bachelor's degrees and relevant experience will also be considered
• At least 2 to 3 years of research experience following degree
• A command of advanced marketing science techniques (i.e., conjoint; cluster analysis) with experience in survey methodology (e.g. experimental design; questionnaire development)
• Very strong written and oral communication skills
• Successful experience driving analytics projects from hypothesis generation through data-gathering to completion
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly-growing organization
• Strong background using statistical computing software, such as R or Stata

Additional qualifications viewed favorably include:

• Familiarity with core concepts of finance, investing, and brand marketing
• Proven managerial experience (professionally or academically)

Specific details:

• The position will be based in YouGov's New York City location
• Title can vary based on candidate's experience
• Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with the skills and experience of the candidate

The candidate must have the legal right to work in the United States.

Survey Programmer / Data Analyst

Description

The candidate will join our Operations team as a Survey Programmer/Data Analyst. Surveys are programmed using an in-house scripting language based on Python. In addition to scripting, responsibilities include quality control, data processing, and monitoring. 

Strong computational abilities are essential. Some prior experience programming (Python, Ruby, Perl, C/C++, Java) and scripting with statistical software and data management tools (R/S-Plus, SPSS, Stata, SAS, SQL, Excel) is strongly preferred. A successful candidate will be able to develop and suggest methods to improve survey implementation, enhance the survey-taking experience for our respondents, and streamline delivery of data products to our clients. 

Candidates should have the following qualifications

• Excellent computational and analytical skills
• Experience with statistical packages and data management tools (especially R)
• Programming experience (Python, Ruby, Perl, C/C++, Java)
• Understanding of statistics and ability to summarize data and manage large datasets 
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral
• Results driven focus and ability to see issues through to completion in a timely manner
• Attention to accuracy in fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at one time 
• Prior experience or training in survey research is a plus (but not required)

The position will be based in YouGov's Palo Alto location.  The candidate must have the legal right to work in the United States.

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401K plan, and Caltrain Go Pass.

Linux System Administrator, Palo Alto, CA

Design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure servers, database servers across 2 data centers.

Key Responsibilities

• Will need to work closely with the system operation and development teams.
• Manage the performance and tuning of the Linux systems
• Help manage, design and implement database changes when required.
• Help manage the backups, DR and HA plans for all Linux infrastructure
• Troubleshooting and problem analysis when required.
• Assist with the deployment and implementation of system changes using puppet.
• Assist the development teams on the technical side with any questions or explanations they might need.

Experience required

• Extensive experience in system administration of Linux Systems (more than 3 years) - Desirable: Debian (Ubuntu)
• Experience with using Puppet or similar is required.
• SAN Storage Experience
• Virtualisation Experience (VMWare)
• Good understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, mail (postfix), ntp, ldap, Kerberos
• UNIX shell scripting (bash/ksh)
• Database Experience:
  • Postgres
  • MySQL
  • Desirable: mongodb
• Web hosting experience: Apache, Nginx
• Knowledge of the following would be desirable: Zeus/Stringray Traffic Manager, djbdns, Firewall (Cisco)

Soft Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong initiative, negotiation and influencing skills
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and numerical skills
• Strong business and commercial acumen
• Ability to deliver results, meet deadlines and manage time effectively
• Excellent internal client focus and handling skills
• Excellent written, oral and electronic communication skills

Personal attributes

• Self-discipline
• Self motivation
• Positive attitude
• Excellent organisational skills

Education and qualifications

• Educated up to degree / HND level in a relevant subject
• Fluent written and spoken English

This is not an exhaustive list, and you will be expected to be flexible in your approach to carrying out your duties, that may change from time to time to reflect changes in the Company’s circumstances. This will include providing cover for colleagues as required. The Company therefore reserves the right to vary the job description in consultation with you.