Cultural Analyst

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November 19

🗽 New York – Remote

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🌲 Oregon – Remote

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💵 $75k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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FINN Partners

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B2B • Marketing • Media

FINN Partners is a global, independent marketing and communications agency known for its rapid growth and innovative approaches. The company specializes in a range of services including digital marketing, public relations, crisis communication, and brand strategy & development. With a values-driven culture, FINN Partners emphasizes integrity, collaboration, and innovation, offering specialized expertise across various sectors such as arts, consumer and lifestyle, education, energy, financial services, health, technology, and travel & tourism. The agency is committed to driving positive social impact and helping brands share their stories effectively to drive business value.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

🤝 B2B

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Work closely with strategists, creatives, and client teams to uncover the "why" behind the "what". • Surface insights that help shape the big idea and ensure our clients show up in a way that’s timely, relevant, and resonant. • Shape our insights practice: formalizing our approaches, building our insights library, and guiding integration into strategic processes. • Monitor and synthesize cultural trends and behavioral insights across verticals • Develop cultural POVs that inform brand strategy, creative briefs, audience segmentation, and thought leadership • Lead secondary research workstreams: social listening, media scan, and audience profiling • Connect qualitative and quantitative findings to generate insight-rich strategy inputs • Support competitive monitoring, including positioning, share of voice, and category whitespace analysis • Support competitive intelligence deliverable, including messaging audits, SWOT analysis, and category SOV snapshots • Build and maintain a cultural intelligence repository, including but not limited to frameworks, trend trackers, signal maps • Use GenAI tools to accelerate synthesis and signal detection (e.g., trend clustering, tone analysis) • Work across teams to ensure cultural context is embedded in all phases of brand, comms, and campaign work • Support new business and major client engagements with quick turn insights decks and input into pitch narratives

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Communications, Marketing, or related fields preferred) • Four to six years of relevant experience in a cultural insights, strategic planning, or audience research role in an agency, consultancy, or trend firm • Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end insight workstreams - from data collection to synthesis to presentation • Strong command of qualitative research methodologies, secondary synthesis, and trend analysis frameworks (e.g., cultural codes, laddering, need states, signal-to-insight mapping) • Fluency with at least two of the following tools: Meltwater, Talkwalker, GWI, Mintel, and MRI Simmons • Comfort with ad libraries, SimilarWeb, and other competitive intelligence tools like CB Insights, SEMRush, Vivvix, and WARC • Hands-on experience using GenAI tools (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Midjourney, etc.) to support signal mining, content summarization, or creative exploration • Excellent synthesis and storytelling skills: can craft compelling insight narratives, visual frameworks, and stakeholder-ready decks • Strong comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and fast-paced agency environments.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Generous PTO that gets even more generous the longer you’re here • A culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration. • Career advancement opportunities in a fast-growing company. • A wellness subsidy. • A manager that provides consistent 1:1 check-ins, reviews, and culture-building opportunities to connect with people across the organization.