Senior Researcher (Online Advertising) - Toronto / Remote

Get to know us

At eyeo, we transform the internet into a trusted, safe and accessible place where users regain control over their experience, content creators and publishers are rewarded for their content, and advertisers and consumers can connect on mutually agreed terms.

eyeo’s market-leading ad-filtering technology powers products like Adblock Plus and AdBlock as well as technical integrations for popular browsers. Our solutions empower users to control their online experience and privacy, while providing monetization for content creators, publishers and advertisers.

In combining our partnerships and our subsidiary products, our technology reaches 250 million monthly active users worldwide.

eyeo is a global employer of over 300 people working remotely in more than 30 countries with offices in Cologne, Berlin, Toronto and Malmö.

How we work

eyeo has colleagues based all over the world. We love our diversity and our company culture. We practice an agile, remote workstyle with work distributed in cross-functional teams that span nearly every timezone. Many of our tech teams prefer to work asynchronously. If working remotely isn’t for you, we also have two offices (Cologne and Berlin) that you can choose to work from. Twice a year we come together with our teams for Team Days and once a year we offer an offsite company retreat, Summer Week. By offering remote work and in-person sessions, we have built a hybrid culture that offers a unique dynamic of flexibility and belonging.

What you'll do

The Senior Market Researcher provides continuous understanding and insights about the acceptability and business value of Acceptable Ads (AA). Being a member of the Standards & Insights team, the Researcher ensures quantitative and qualitative research about the AA criteria and helps to find the equilibrium for all stakeholders of the Acceptable Ads ecosystem.

After your morning routine, you'll be expected to...

• Collaborate with the team and outside the unit to define relevant research questions
• Building close relationships with our partners to improve data collaboration and offering deep insights about Acceptable Ads
• Feed findings into research ideas on how to optimize Acceptable Ads
• Develop a deep understanding of partners (e.g. publishers and advertisers) by
• Define requirements for and ensures the quality of third-party suppliers during research projects
• Conduct and/or provision the research around advertising standards and market trends
• Establish relationships with third-party research companies and academic researchers and evaluate their methodologies in the context of potential cooperation
• Advise the publisher sales team on best practices in Acceptable Ads implementations.
• Support governance of the Acceptable Ads Standard through research and consultation
• Introducing research collection tools for stakeholders, with a focus on publishers.
• Vendor management
• Investigate the needs of publishers and other stakeholders within the eyeo and online advertising ecosystem
• Write reports of research findings and present those internally and externally
• Advertising ecosystem research

• Proactively identify data gaps and investigates potential data sources for research
• Together with the team, create and maintain a central database for recording findings over time.
• Data
• Prepare and submit reports to the Publisher Growth Unit, the Acceptable Ads Committee, and the wider company that summarizes findings in a digestible, graphical, and actionable manner.

What you bring to the table…

• Degree in business or relevant social sciences (e.g., psychology, behavioral science, social science), data science, or mathematics
• Qualitative and quantitative research skills (e.g., stakeholder analysis, focus groups, survey design and analysis)
• Dynamic, motivating and entrepreneurial-minded with an internal drive to continuously hit goals and deadlines
• Analytics-driven mindset and ability to make decisions based on data
• Basic programming skills (R, Python, HTML, JavaScript, SQL) would be a plus
• Experience in working with publishers
• Experimentation mentality, ready to test and learn
• Ability to work efficiently across teams, being a skilled communicator and collaborator
• 5+ years of experience in research, ideally within the AdTech industry
• Strategic-thinking skills with the ability to see the big picture, as well as to dive into details when needed

What we offer

• Flexible working hours
• Monthly child care allowance for children under 6
• Budget for the following: home office and/or relocation
• Company-sponsored hackathons
• Work remotely or from one of our offices —we trust you to find what works best for you
• Sabbatical leave allowance after 2 years
• Offsite team days and the annual summer company retreat
• Your choice of hardware and setup
• Personal and professional development budget
• 28 days paid vacation + Volunteer day

Helpful links

• The team at eyeo: https://eyeo.com/team
• Blog updates: https://eyeo.com/blog/
• Eyeo in the news: https://eyeo.com/press/
• Open Source repository: https://github.com/adblockplus , https://gitlab.com/eyeo
• Monetization : https://eyeo.com/blog/acceptable-ads-evolution-feature-ecosystem
• Life at eyeo: https://eyeo.com/careers/working-at-eyeo

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