LendingTree - Sr. Manager, Consumer Insights
Requirements
• 8+ years of experience in consumer insights, market research, customer insights, or a related field. • 5–7+ years of people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, career development, and team development. • Deep expertise across qualitative and quantitative research methods, with strong judgment on which approach best fits the business question. • Experience translating customer insights into business recommendations, influencing decisions, and connecting research to measurable outcomes. • Strong strategic thinking and the ability to see both tactical and long-term implications of research findings. • Strong business acumen, including the ability to connect customer insights to growth, retention, acquisition, product adoption, and business performance. • Experience identifying growth opportunities, framing business problems, prioritizing effectively, and connecting research to strategic objectives. • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, including synthesizing complex information, presenting to executive audiences, and influencing stakeholders across functions and levels. • Strong analytical rigor, research design expertise, and comfort navigating ambiguity to drive clarity and action. • Proven ability to build trust, influence without direct authority, align stakeholders around customer needs, and help foster a customer-centered culture. • Experience partnering with executive leadership and influencing strategic decisions through research and customer understanding. • Experience building and scaling research capabilities, processes, or programs. • Experience managing research vendors, agencies, and external partners. • Experience in financial services, fintech, marketplaces, or other consumer-facing industries. • Experience building or scaling customer insight functions, research operations, or measurement programs. • Experience managing external research agencies, vendors, and strategic partners.
Responsibilities
• Set the consumer insights strategy and research roadmap, prioritizing the most important business questions and aligning work to company goals. • Develop annual research priorities and balance proactive insight generation with stakeholder-driven research needs. • Lead and scale qualitative and quantitative research programs, including customer discovery, evaluative research, surveys, brand tracking, NPS, segmentation, conjoint analysis, driver analysis, and statistical modeling. • Build and evolve customer insight capabilities, processes, dashboards, and measurement frameworks that track customer sentiment, behavior, and business performance over time. • Serve as a strong advocate for customers and users by bringing their needs, motivations, and pain points into strategic and day-to-day decisions. • Challenge assumptions with evidence and keep teams focused on customer problems before jumping to solutions. • Translate research findings into clear recommendations that influence product, marketing, brand, and business strategy, help teams prioritize effectively, and support executive decision-making. • Partner across Product, Design, UX, Engineering, Marketing, Brand, Analytics, executive leadership, and external research partners to drive alignment and action. • Build credibility with senior leadership through rigorous research, thoughtful analysis, and compelling storytelling. • Manage agencies and research vendors, ensure research investments connect to business impact, and continue to grow organizational research maturity.
Benefits
• Eligible for annual performance bonus • Medical, dental, and vision insurance and 401(k) matching • COMPANY • LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts, and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders in order to make the best financial choices. Our company was founded in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more. • What else you should know: • We’re a publicly traded company (TREE). • We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices. • We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health. • OUR CULTURE
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