PRINTING United Alliance (www.printing.org), the largest national graphic arts trade association, represents an industry with approximately one million employees and serves the interests of thousands of member companies. We deliver our members products and services that enhance their knowledge, growth, efficiency, and profitability through advocacy, research, education, and networking.
The Alliance is a diverse association that includes a growing membership, an expanding member services offering and a media organization with multiple brands producing print magazines, events, e-newsletters, websites, research and video.
Position Summary
Alliance Insights is the custom research division of PRINTING United Alliance. We run commissioned research engagements for senior executives who rely on insight to shape strategy, sharpen positioning, and make consequential decisions. Print and packaging are our primary focus, with additional work across retail, non-profit, and adjacent B2B categories.
We’re hiring a Senior Analyst to lead these engagements end-to-end. Our work spans two types: decision-support research, where a client has a question and we design a study to answer it; and strategic thought leadership, where research is designed from the start to build a client’s brand or support a product narrative — commercially shaped, but grounded in real data and real methodology.
You’ll sit in scoping conversations with prospective clients and help shape the research approach. You’ll design the methodology, draw the conclusions, write the deliverable — report or deck — and present findings to client senior executives. Each engagement is yours to run, and some will be in industries you don’t yet know. Ramping fast on unfamiliar territory is core to this work.
This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who wants to keep doing the craft at a high level. It’s not a support role and not a stepping stone for someone earlier in their career.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Lead client engagements end-to-end. From scoping through final presentation, each engagement is yours. You’ll partner with the VP of Research during scoping conversations to shape the research approach, then run the work once it’s sold.
Design the research. Select the methodology — quantitative, qualitative, or mixed — that fits the question. Build the survey instrument or discussion guide. Make decisions about sample, segmentation, and analytical framing.
Working with data in Excel. You're comfortable working with survey data in Excel — sorting and filtering, building the cuts and views you need to find the story in the data, and working with charts in Excel as part of getting there.
Draw the conclusions and build the narrative. The data is the input; the deliverable is the story. You’ll figure out what the findings mean, what holds up, what doesn’t, and how the pieces connect into something a senior executive can act on.
Write for executive audiences. Reports, executive summaries, and thought leadership pieces — written to be read by busy senior leaders, never in academic register. You’ll move fluently between two modes: decision-support findings, where the work is to communicate research clearly; and strategic thought leadership, where the work is to build a client’s brand through research while maintaining methodological integrity.
Build presentation-ready decks. Select the chart types that communicate findings most clearly. Construct decks that tell a story rather than dump data. Refine charts in PowerPoint to client-deliverable standard.
Present to senior client executives. Walk clients through findings with confidence. Handle methodology questions and pushback live. Represent Alliance Insights at PRINTING United Alliance events and at client events.
Work comfortably across industries. Most engagements are in print and packaging, but the work also extends into retail, non-profit, and other B2B categories. You’ll need to be comfortable with ambiguity and skilled at getting up to speed in unfamiliar territory — knowing how to identify what you need to learn to deliver on a project, finding the right inputs, and getting to client-credible fluency quickly.
Use AI in the work. Apply AI thoughtfully to accelerate drafting, synthesis, and analysis where it adds rigor and speed — and exercise judgment about where it doesn’t belong. Validate AI output rather than trust it.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements
6+ years leading custom research engagements. You’ve been the lead voice in client meetings, presented findings, and defended methodology — not supported senior researchers on client work.
Comfort and experience working across industries. You’ve taken on research engagements in industries you didn’t already know and gotten up to speed quickly. You know how to identify what you need to learn to deliver, how to find the right inputs, and how to get to client-credible fluency on a timeline.
Writing for executive audiences in two registers. You can write decision-support findings that a busy senior leader will actually read, and you can write thought leadership that builds a client’s brand through research without compromising the research itself.
Day-one presentation capability. You can walk a client’s senior executives through findings, handle methodology pushback live, and hold the room at an industry event.
PowerPoint proficiency. You know which chart type fits which finding, you can build and refine charts to client-deliverable standard, and you build decks that tell a story rather than dump data.
Bachelor’s degree. Bachelor’s degree required; field of study is flexible, with emphasis on relevant experience.
Preferred Skills
AI fluency as a practitioner. You use AI tools in your actual research workflow — for drafting, synthesis, qualitative analysis at scale, pattern identification — and you exercise judgment about where AI belongs and where it doesn’t. Curiosity and active willingness to build fluency is the floor; deeper practical use is a real plus.
Familiarity with the print, packaging, retail, or non-profit sectors. Not required — most of our work involves ramping into adjacent territory regardless — but a head start in our primary domains is welcome.
Alliance Insights
We’re a small, fully remote research and economics team. Our work environment is built around:
Collaboration. We support each other across projects and step in where needed to deliver the best outcomes for clients.
Direct communication. We address questions and feedback openly and constructively.
Autonomy and trust. You’ll have the independence to manage your work, paired with a team that relies on sound judgment and accountability.
Follow the evidence. We follow the data, even when it challenges our assumptions.
Logistics
Remote, US-based. Open to candidates anywhere in the continental United States.
Travel. 4–6 trips per year for PRINTING United Alliance events and client engagements.
Reports to: Vice President of Research, Alliance Insights.
To apply
Send your resume and a brief cover note describing why this role fits what you’re looking for to hr@printing.org. We review applications on a rolling basis.
PRINTING United Alliance recognizes our employees are our greatest asset, and our benefits package is designed to support and care for our employees. Along with a competitive salary, the comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision programs, company-paid life and disability insurance, flexible paid time off/paid holidays, a 401(k) plan with generous company match and a wide variety of additional benefits.
We strive to develop and retain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace where all employees feel they are respected, treated fairly and given equal opportunity to excel in their careers. PRINTING United Alliance is committed to providing equal opportunity for employees and applicants in all aspects of the employment relationship, without regard to race, religion, color, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, political affiliation, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs.