Conveo

Confident decisions in days with AI-led interviews.

Senior Researcher

$70K - $160K0.01% - 0.10%Antwerp, Flanders, BE / London, England, GB
Job type
Full-time
Role
Operations
Experience
6+ years
Visa
US citizenship/visa not required
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Dieter De Mesmaeker
Dieter De Mesmaeker
Founder

About the role

What we are building at Conveo

Conveo is an end-to-end AI-led insights platform enabling fast, affordable, and high quality market research. Global brands like Unilever, Google, and Orange use our AI video interviewer to across insights, marketing, and product teams.

#1 What problem are we solving and why is this an important problem to solve

The promise of AI for insights lays in the fact that it allows insights executives to focus on value added tasks: provide strategic insights to stakeholders - from marketers into the C-suite. Currently, a lot of resources are spent on tedious non-value adding tasks. With Conveo, these can be outsourced to technology! To that end we are building the best platform in the market.

#2 The team you will join

You will join an extremely talented team of incredibly passionate, high-energy people. We go the extra mile while having the best time of our lives. Our team has the combination of decades of market research knowledge, incredible engineering ability, and experience building companies.

#3 How we operate:

We truly care about our clients and the problem we solve. That means we go the extra mile every time. Our engineering team talks directly with our customers and truly collaborates with our commercial. No layers in between.

We work hard and we have fun.

To keep our quality bar incredibly high, we want to execute with the smallest possible team.

The Role

Are you passionate about uncovering the deeper ‘why’ behind consumer behaviour?

As a Researcher @Conveo, You’ll work closely with global clients across FMCG, consumer services and tech clients, guiding them through qualitative inquiry that fuel brand, innovation, and marketing teams. You’ll own research projects end-to-end, from designing studies to synthesising insights and presenting narratives that inspire action.

Conveo is not a full-service agency, but a tech platform that offers a research team playing a key role in the success of our customers.

  1. A key element in this role is running pilot projects that are key in gaining trust in the method and the platform and lead to the client entering a long-term partnership with Conveo. In larger teams pilots also play an important role in the continous expansion to new teams and business units.
  2. Secondly the key to building this partnership succesfully is to take a proactive approach onboarding and education clients in how the Conveo AI methodologies can be used optimally to achieveing their insights objectives throughout the year. As the product evolves, its crucial to keep informing key accounts how new features lead to new opportunities for the Clients to generate better insights.
  3. Thirdly customers develop relationships with their Conveo key researcher that deeply understands their strategic priorities and acts as a trusted advisor to plan research and how it fits into a larger framework for the customer.

Trust & deep connection with customers is key in our company growth strategy.

This role is perfect for someone who wants to lead impactful work, build strong client partnerships, and shape the future of qualitative research within an innovative, fast-moving organisation.

Your Mission

Insight Generation & Storytelling

  • Design and execute qualitative research using the Conveo AI-led interview platform.
  • Oversee the full lifecycle of qualitative projects, planning, recruitment, moderation, analysis, and delivery.
  • Translate complex client briefs into thoughtful qualitative approaches that go beyond what is asked to uncover what truly matters.
  • Synthesise rich qualitative data into compelling stories grounded in human truth.
  • Develop strategic insight reports that inspire senior stakeholders and drive decision-making.
  • Identify emerging themes, behaviours, tensions, and opportunities that help clients shape brand, innovation, and communication strategy.
  • Manage internal and external resources, ensuring exceptional quality and on-time delivery.

Client Engagement & Growth

  • Lead client briefing sessions, shaping high-impact proposals and research frameworks.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, guiding them through findings, implications, and strategic recommendations.
  • Build long-term relationships that uncover ongoing growth opportunities.
  • Work closely with account management and customer success to turn the client’s ambitions on research into Conveo revenue growth.

Research Knowledge Expert for Product & Marketing

  • Use your existing experience, client interactions and daily use of our platform to bring our product to the next level and help shape the future of the industry.
  • Find opportunities to share research with the world and execute on them by collaborating with marketing and clients across various channels (conferences, blogs, PR, social etc.)

What You Bring to the Table

  • 6 to 20+ years of experience in market research and insights (client or agency-side).
  • Strong and rigorous research and insights skills (qualitative expertise a plus).
  • Curiosity about AI and eagerness to apply it in the insights space.
  • Commercial acumen to spot and act on growth opportunities.
  • Outstanding communication skills; clear, credible, and inspiring.
  • A creative yet analytical problem-solver.
  • A self-starter with a hands-on, let’s-make-it-happen mentality.
  • The grit, drive, and passion to go beyond the ordinary.
  • A desire to travel to Clients and marketing events to present results in person

Why Join Us?

  • Shape the future of insights with a platform that’s redefining the industry.
  • Be part of a Y Combinator-backed startup with global ambitions.
  • Work alongside a powerhouse team where your impact matters.
  • Enjoy an epic experience, and yes, a competitive salary, performance rewards, and growth opportunities too.

About Conveo

Our story so far:

Founded in 2024 as a better way to conduct qualitative interviews, Conveo quickly gained traction after going through the Summer 24 Y Combinator batch where we saw significant interest from Consumer Goods companies. After raising our $5.3m seed round, we executed closely with our customers to build the best qualitative market research platform centered around AI-moderated interviews. Since then we’ve expanded our scope, grown our team, and Today, we're seeing incredibly strong adoption and usage across Insights, marketing, innovation, and strategy teams in industries like: Consumer goods, Retail, Pharma, technology, and consumer services.

Background

  • We help companies understand their customers, giving us virtually unlimited market potential. The market research industry is valued at approximately $100B, with qualitative solutions representing a $30B opportunity. With AI enablement, this market is expanding rapidly. This is an infinite horizon problem.
  • Experienced team. Our head of research was the founder of a market research company with 600+ employees, our CEO previously co-founded a $75m ARR startup as CTO. Our commercial and operational teams bring their operational excellence from McKinsey, while our sales leadership includes former VPs from Ipsos.
  • We believe in forging deep collaborations with our customers. In just 15 months, we've landed deals with some of the world's largest companies that are quickly expanding their work with us, including Unilever, P&G, AB InBev, Nestlé, Google and many others. We are seeing many brands switch to us from our competitors. We’re a growing team passionate about solving real-world challenges in customer research, enabling companies to make user-informed decisions. We're looking for driven senior engineers who love working on complex systems, care about solving problems for users, and are excited to shape the future of AI-driven customer insights.
Conveo
Founded:2024
Batch:S24
Team Size:13
Status:
Active
Location:Antwerp, Belgium
Founders
Dieter De Mesmaeker
Dieter De Mesmaeker
Founder
Hendrik Van Hove
Hendrik Van Hove
Founder