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Head of Strategic Research | North America
Savanta
Executive opportunity brief
The decision in one screen
A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.
Fast read
Opportunity DNA
The available details do not point to a single standout advantage yet. The clearest issue to weigh is location rules could change the fit.
Current comparable position is around the 55th percentile.
Work-related travel is required or expected.
The listing does not make the minimum education or experience threshold clear enough yet.
Work authorization, sponsorship or relocation wording may materially limit who can take the role.
Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.
At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.
This fingerprint summarizes what is clear, constrained or still unanswered in the current listing. It is a reading aid, not an overall job score.
Decision evidence check
5 of 5 core facts stated
This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.
Facts already stated
- Compensation
- Work arrangement
- Location eligibility
- Application closing time
- Employment type
Core evidence complete
All five core facts are stated. Other details can still matter, so continue with the qualification, mobility, employer and application checks below.
Unknown information is never converted into a negative score. The questions above exist to prevent missing evidence from being mistaken for a favorable term.
Decision levers
What could make or break the fit?
Reasons to look closer
Nothing stands out strongly enough yet to call a clear advantage. The role may still be attractive for reasons the listing does not spell out.
Trade-offs to weigh
- Location rules could change the fit: Work-related travel is required or expected.
- Sponsorship could be a hard constraint: The listing says sponsorship is unavailable or that work authorization is required without sponsorship.
Questions worth asking before you invest more time
- Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
- Confirm the actual minimum experience requirement rather than assuming preferred background is mandatory.
These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.
Opportunity neighborhood
Keep your options open
These live roles sit close enough to this opportunity to make useful comparison points. Look across several employers before deciding what pay, flexibility or access trade-offs you are willing to accept.
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Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
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Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type
This neighborhood is drawn from current inventory in the same broad occupation. Similarity is based on explicit listing facts; missing details do not count against a job.
Role market context
How much current choice is visible around this kind of work?
This compares the vacancy with current High Paid Job inventory in the broad Executive leadership roles family. It describes visible choice and disclosure, not future demand or career quality.
200 most recent current roles sampled for the disclosure measures below.
Distinct employers in the bounded current sample, not an estimate of all employers hiring in the market.
Current sampled roles stating at least four of the five Core Decision Facts.
Requires a numeric amount, explicit ISO currency and supported pay period.
Listings with explicit enough remote, hybrid or on-site evidence to classify.
Missing deadline evidence remains unknown and is not interpreted as an open-ended application window.
Currencies with explicit pay evidence in the sample: USD (74) · GBP (4) · EUR (1). Raw amounts across different currencies are not compared.
This describes current visible High Paid Job inventory in the same broad occupation family. Percentages use a bounded recent sample and are not a forecast, a complete labor-market census or an employer-quality measure.
Constraint opportunity lab
What changes the size of the current opportunity pool?
Each line applies one stricter evidence-based constraint to the same bounded current role-family sample. It helps you see the trade-off in visible choice without deciding which trade-off is right for you.
Counts only affirmative or possible sponsorship evidence, or relocation explicitly offered. Unknown is not treated as no.
A much stricter subset: only listings with explicit worldwide-remote evidence remain.
Shows the subset with enough stated evidence for a more informed first comparison.
Counts roles explicitly classified as worldwide remote, region-restricted remote or remote with restrictions still unclear.
Only same-currency opportunities with usable annualized pay enter this comparison. Other currencies are not converted or treated as lower.
Requires amount, explicit ISO currency and a supported pay period. Missing pay evidence remains unknown.
Uses only roles with a stated employment type.
Includes roles whose seniority is genuinely unspecified rather than assuming they belong to another level.
These are counterfactual filters over a bounded sample of current HPJ inventory in the same broad occupation family. They show how visible choice changes when one evidence-based constraint is applied; they do not tell you which constraint you should choose or predict hiring outcomes. The calculation uses the 200 most recent current roles from 1497 visible roles in this broad family.
Salary transparency context
Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?
This listing states usable structured compensation. About 40% of the bounded current role sample does the same.
Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.
Pay disclosure is limited in the current role sample.
Employer-level comparison is withheld until enough current employer listings are available.
This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.
Private offer & negotiation lab
Turn an offer into evidence, not guesswork
Enter an annual base offer and, if you want, your own target. HPJ compares only within one explicit currency and never chooses a target for you.
Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.
Enter an annual base offer to compare it with explicit same-currency evidence. HPJ will not suggest a target for you.
Review the full package · 10 terms
Mark what is confirmed, what needs clarification and what you want to prioritize. These choices and notes stay in this browser.
Usable advertised compensation is available.
Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.
Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.
Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.
Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.
Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.
A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.
Relocation support not established
Sponsorship explicitly unavailable
A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.
Questions worth taking into the offer conversation
- Does the package include equity or another long-term incentive, and what are the vesting terms?
- What health coverage is included and what costs remain with the employee?
- If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
- When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
Occupation intelligence
What broader career references connect to this role?
HPJ uses broad comparison families for current-market analysis. External taxonomy results are reference candidates for that broad family, not a declaration that this vacancy has been authoritatively classified into a specific occupation.
European occupation references
- chief operating officer
- brokerage firm director
- chief executive officer
- gambling manager
- animal facility manager
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
U.S. occupation references
- Chief Executives 11-1011.00
- Chief Sustainability Officers 11-1011.03
- Fashion Designers 27-1022.00
- General and Operations Managers 11-1021.00
- Sales Managers 11-2022.00
This site incorporates information from O*NET Web Services by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
Career reference research
Skills worth investigating
Official occupational context, paired with exact phrases visible in this vacancy. It is not a skills test or an applicant-fit score.
ESCO · European occupation
chief operating officer
Usually essential in this ESCO occupation
- plan medium to long term objectives
- negotiate with stakeholders
- ensure lawful business operations
- marketing management
- make strategic business decisions
- abide by business ethical code of conducts
- establish collaborative relations
Context-dependent ESCO skills
- interact with the board of directors
- set organisational policies
- define organisational standards
- shape corporate culture
- develop business plans
O*NET · U.S. occupation
Chief Executives
O*NET occupation skills
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Complex Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Coordination
- Management of Financial Resources
- Management of Personnel Resources
- SpeakingPhrase in listing
- Systems Evaluation
Build my private skill preparation brief Your evidence · Practice · Interview questions
Plan how you might demonstrate or investigate occupational skills. These are broad-family reference examples, not confirmed vacancy requirements. Nothing you enter is sent to High Paid Job.
Private to this browser. Up to 20 reference skills; not a qualification assessment or hiring prediction.
Useful next question: Which of these occupational reference skills does the hiring manager actually expect for this specific role, and what evidence would demonstrate them?
These skills belong to one reference occupation selected for HPJ’s broad career family, not a verified classification of this vacancy. Text overlap only means a phrase appears in the available listing text; it does not establish an employer requirement, your proficiency, or a qualification gap. A missing mention is unknown, not a deficit.
Skill bridge
What does this role connect to?
This listing names several concrete skills, but they do not currently overlap with the most frequently surfaced skill labels in the sampled Executive leadership roles opportunities.
Skills named in this listing
Shared with the current career sample
The recognized skills in this listing do not overlap with the current top-skill list for this occupation sample.
Additional signals in this listing: Generative AI
Application edge
- If these skills match your background, prepare one concrete example that shows how you used Generative AI rather than relying on a keyword-only claim.
Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant. The current career comparison draws on 120 sampled listings; 64 contain a recognized skill signal.
Application Decision Lab
Turn the listing into a preparation plan
Separate what the listing actually states from what you still need to prepare or verify. Your selections and short notes stay in this browser and are never submitted to High Paid Job.
Generative AI
This skill or technology is explicitly mentioned in the available listing text. A mention is not automatically a mandatory requirement; prepare a concrete example only if it is relevant to your experience.
Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity
- Application process: What interview, assessment, portfolio, reference or screening stages are part of the hiring process?
Decision analysis
What the listing really tells you
For Head of Strategic Research | North America at Savanta, the most useful clues right now are compensation has enough depth for comparison, work-location flexibility has usable detail, and sponsorship and relocation signals are visible. Looking at them together makes the trade-offs easier to see.
Compensation has enough depth for comparison
Among 464 current comparable salaries in USD, the normalized annual midpoint is around the 55th percentile. This compares advertised pay in the same currency and does not include every element of total compensation.
Work-location flexibility has usable detail
The work-location pattern is “Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions”, with Remote Freedom at 73/100. The most important location constraint is work-related travel is required or expected..
Sponsorship and relocation signals are visible
Sponsorship explicitly unavailable. These details help frame the practical questions to ask; they are not immigration advice or a guarantee of eligibility.
The visible application effort can be estimated
Provider-mediated application path. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.
Source continuity adds useful context
1 recent enabled source can currently renew this vacancy across 1 source classes. That improves traceability, although it does not verify the employer itself.
How this analysis is assembled
Built from the pay, location, qualification, mobility, application and source details available for this vacancy. Anything the listing leaves unresolved stays unresolved.
Analysis evidence coverage
How much analysis can the current evidence support?
Uses the explainable High Pay Score within the job’s current occupation/seniority/currency comparison sample.
Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.
The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
The listing was posted about 1 days ago.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.
Decision checklist
What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?
This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.
Supported strengths
No standout strength is supported strongly enough to list here. That is not a negative rating.
Visible cautions
- Work-related travel is required or expected.
- Applicant residence or location appears to be restricted.
- The description appears to require or expect work-related travel. Check the frequency and whether travel time or expenses materially affect the role.
Still unknown
The principal evidence dimensions used by this checklist are available, although other employment details may still be missing.
Pay vs. barriers
Pay and barrier context available
The current pay position can be viewed alongside the stated barriers, but the available detail does not support a stronger conclusion.
Comparable disclosed-pay evidence places this job at about 55 / 100 within its current occupation/seniority sample.
2 explicit Remote Freedom restriction signals are present and are shown separately from qualification requirements.
- Education requirement is not established.
- Required prior-experience level is not established.
This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.
Beyond the headline
Not enough evidence for a hidden-value finding
Potential hidden value appears only when several distinct non-pay advantages are actually supported. Missing requirements or benefits are never counted as positives.
The annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 55% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.
Still check: The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.
Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.
Compensation intelligence
How competitive is this pay?
Within the current market range
The annualized midpoint is above the current comparable median but remains within the sample’s middle-to-upper range.
The highlighted band is the middle 50% of the current comparable sample after the outlier guard. The dark marker is this job’s annualized salary midpoint.
Why this analysis?
- This score reflects the current advertised-pay distribution for comparable active jobs in the same currency. It measures pay position, not overall job quality.
- Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
- Range quality: Single disclosed value.
Employer compensation communication
Pay transparency at Savanta
Only 1 current listing from this employer is indexed. At least three are required before employer-level pay transparency is summarized.
This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.
Current employer intelligence
Savanta — current opportunity snapshot
Only 1 current listing from this employer is visible. At least three are needed before an employer pattern is shown.
This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.
Work-location intelligence
Remote Freedom
Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions
Why this score?
- The source describes the role as open worldwide or globally.
Location restrictions detected
- Work-related travel is required or expected.
- Applicant residence or location appears to be restricted.
Flexibility signals detected
- Worldwide or global remote eligibility is explicitly indicated.
Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.
International applicant intelligence
Visa & relocation signals
Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.
The available job text explicitly indicates sponsorship is unavailable or that work authorization is required without sponsorship.
The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.
Tradeoff check
What’s the catch?
These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:
- The description appears to require or expect work-related travel. Check the frequency and whether travel time or expenses materially affect the role.
Current alternatives
Better-paying alternatives
These current roles show a materially higher annualized salary midpoint in the same broad occupation and currency. Similar seniority, country, work arrangement, employment type and recency are preferred where possible; higher pay alone does not make an alternative a better fit.
Senior Director, Agentic Engineering
Lightspeed Commerce · USA
USD 300,000–360,000 / year Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
Vice President, Deputy General Counsel
HackerOne · UK, USA
USD 250,000–320,000 / year Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
VP of IT Infrastructure & Operations
Serve Robotics · Canada, USA
USD 220,000–320,000 / year Region-restricted remoteWhy comparable: Same seniority band · Similar work-location arrangement · Same employment type
Alternatives are drawn from the current inventory rather than presented as application recommendations. A pay difference needs to be meaningful—about 3% or more at the midpoint—and different currencies are not compared.
Application-path intelligence
What can we see about the application process?
Provider-mediated application path
The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.
Current destination: himalayas.app · HTTPS
No additional required application step is clear in the available listing text. This does not mean the external application is one-click or friction-free.
Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.
Application safety context
Application safety check
Basic application-safety context available
The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.
Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording
Observable transport-safety signals
- The available application destination uses HTTPS.
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- Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
- Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
- Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.
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Original listing details
The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.
The Savanta Group is looking for a senior research leader to take ownership of how our research is designed, governed, and defended across Savanta, Explorer, and Plinc.
The successful candidate must be based either in the US or Canada, preferably on East Coast hours. The role is remote, but has occasional travel to offices in the US, UK, and other locations, and regular travel to conferences and industry events, etc.
About Us:
Savanta, Explorer, and Plinc are distinct but connected research and insight businesses, each with their own focus and client base. Together, they form a group with significant breadth of capability, from large-scale quantitative research to specialist qualitative and innovation-led insight. Across all three, the commitment to rigorous, credible, and commercially relevant research is constant.
With over 500 people across offices in multiple countries, we combine deep research expertise, proprietary technology and high-impact consulting to give our clients a complete view of their markets, their customers, and their competitors.
About the Role:
The Head of Strategic Research will be the methodological authority across the group, the person who ensures that everything we produce is accurate, rigorous, and built on sound foundations, wherever it originates.
This is a role for someone who combines deep research expertise with the presence and communication skills to represent the group externally: writing, speaking, and engaging with the media and industry on the research topics that matter. You will collaborate closely with the President, Explorer & Plinc to shape the group’s research agenda and raise the quality bar across all three businesses.
This role will work across various divisions, including research, commercial, marketing, and product. You will be the research expert, helping to meaningfully connect different areas of the larger organization.
Part of this role will be to help the group use AI, technology, and automation thoughtfully to improve both quality and efficiency. You will identify where new tools can strengthen research design, improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and create better ways of working, while ensuring that innovation is applied responsibly and never compromises methodological rigor, data integrity, or client trust.
This is an opportunity to be the methodological heart of a growing, ambitious research business and to shape how Savanta Group is seen in the industry.
About You:
You are a senior researcher whose judgment other researchers trust. You have built deep expertise in primary research methodologies, quantitative, qualitative, or both, across a range of sectors, and you have reached the point in your career where people bring you the hard methodological questions because your answer is the one that settles it.
You are comfortable being the last word on research quality, and comfortable being challenged on it.
You are also happy to be visible. This role involves writing for publication, speaking at industry events, and answering questions about our methods from journalists, clients, and academics. You will have a strong track record of public-facing work, and the confidence to build a lot more of it. You can move between audiences without losing precision: explaining a sampling decision to a specialist and to a national newspaper are different jobs, and you can do both.
Beyond the technical, we care about how you work. This is a role with enormous influence and relatively little direct authority, spanning three businesses that do things differently. It suits someone collegial and generous, who raises standards by bringing people with them rather than by policing them, who offers a better choice alongside any critique, and who stays pragmatic about commercial realities.
You will be intellectually curious, genuinely current on developments in methods and technology, and hold high personal standards for accuracy and intellectual honesty.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Extensive experience in conducting primary research, with real depth in a variety of methodologies.
- A mix of agency, consultancy, client-side, or academic/think-tank backgrounds.
- A strong track record as a methodological authority - internally and/or externally - the credibility to be the ‘last word’ on research quality.
- Experience operating at a senior level and shaping research practice beyond your own team.
- Evidence of public-facing work, such as writing, speaking, or media engagement on research topics.
- Familiarity with a variety of sectors such as FMCG, Pharma and Healthcare, Technology, Financial services, or Retail.
- Experience with utilizing secondary research data.
We would rather hear from someone strong who doesn't tick every box than not hear from them at all.
Please click here to view the full job description
And in return, Savanta offers*
- Salary: $170,000+ USD / $190,000+ CAD
- Bonus scheme
- Generous PTO Allowance
- Flexible working practices
- Health package
- Retirement plan
- Team & Company Socials
- Committees for Health & Well Being, Charities & Volunteering and DE&I
*Benefits package may vary based on location. Full details of local benefits and perks available on request from the People Team (HR).
Why Join Us:
Part of the vibrant Next 15 Communications Group, we have an entrepreneurial and inclusive company culture that actively recognizes and values its people and offers unrivalled scope for career development, including mentoring, coaching as well as extensive training programs.
The company was founded on the belief that tech should be integral to its success, and this culture of tech innovation makes us best placed to put Savanta at the heart of our clients’ businesses, offering solutions before they even know the problem.
We encourage authentic responses that reflect your own experience and approach. Candidates should avoid relying on Generative AI to write cover letters or application responses, as this may be considered during the review process.
Savanta Group is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and continuously strives to be an employer of choice. Our people are our greatest assets - we value workplace diversity and inclusion, oppose all forms of unlawful discrimination, and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates of all backgrounds.
All candidates will be considered equally, however, unfortunately we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.
For information on how Savanta uses your data, please see
Salary: $170,000+ USD / $190,000+ CADOriginally posted on Himalayas
Listing provenance
Where did this job come from?
See where this vacancy came from and whether more than one current source can still support it. Source names help with traceability and attribution; they are not endorsements or guarantees.
At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.
- Continuity
- One recent renewable source
- Source-class independence
- One renewable source class
- Last source observation
- Observed in the past 3 days
This records when High Paid Job last observed the vacancy in source evidence. It confirms source presence, not that the employer edited the vacancy at that time.
- 1 enabled source recently observed this vacancy.
Source confidence is about traceability and continuity. It is separate from application safety and should not be read as an employer reputation rating.
The vacancy is supplied by an external job publisher. Source information helps show where the listing came from; it is not a guarantee about the employer or vacancy.
Listing source: Himalayas. Destination: himalayas.app. The application opens in a new tab so you can keep this report open.