Senior Research Executive

Title Senior Research Executive, HIT (Human Insights & Trade)

Location : London - 3 days per week minimum in the office

Reports to: Global Director, HIT (Human Insights & Trade)

About Us

At Time Out Group, we are a global leader in media and hospitality, dedicated to helping people discover and experience the very best their city has to offer. Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market, we connect audiences with exceptional food, culture, entertainment, and experiences around the world.

Through Time Out Media, we provide expert recommendations, insider guides, and engaging stories that help people make the most of their cities. Our content reaches millions of curious locals and travellers, guiding them to the latest openings, hidden gems, and unforgettable experiences.

Role Overview

The Senior Research Executive will play a key role within Time Out’s HIT team (Human Insights & Trade) - the centre for audience understanding, cultural insight, and commercially powerful storytelling.

You’ll lead both proactive and reactive research projects across global markets, using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods to uncover what people think, feel, want and do. You’ll translate that into clear, compelling insight stories that help shape editorial ideas, commercial strategies, partnerships and trade marketing activity.

The role is hands-on and varied - from running Time Out Loud (our consumer community) chats and building surveys, to analysing open-ended responses, crafting client-ready decks and supporting thought leadership.

You’ll work closely with the Sales and Creative Strategy teams as well as the Global Director of HIT to ensure that research, storytelling and trade strategy stay connected - making insight a strategic advantage for Time Out.

Skills & Experience Required

• 3+ years’ experience in consumer research, insights, strategy or a related field (media, agency or client side).

• Strong foundation in quantitative research: survey design, data cleaning, descriptive analysis, and interpreting stats in a practical, story-led way.

• Confidence with data and numbers - able to interrogate datasets, spot patterns, and make sense of complexity.

• Ability to turn data into stories - clear, concise insight writing is essential.

• Skilled at building client-ready presentations (Google Slides / Canva) with strong narrative and visual clarity.

• Design skills and familiarity with visualising insight (charts, storyboards, infographics, reports, etc.).

• Comfortable managing multiple projects at speed across multiple markets.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management - able to work with commercial, content, trade, and marketing teams.

• Curious, proactive, and culturally attuned - someone who naturally spots trends emerging in culture, cities, food & drink, going out, and lifestyle.

• High attention to detail and strong organisational skills.

Desirable

• Experience with brand lift studies, campaign effectiveness or digital advertising measurement.

• Experience in community management (e.g., managing audience panels, online communities, or participant engagement).

• Knowledge of tools such as Google Analytics, Looker/Looker Studio, GWI, Marfeel.

• Experience working in or with media, publishing, entertainment, hospitality or lifestyle sectors.

• Interest in behavioural science, cultural trends, or city living.

About our culture

At Time Out Group we believe in diversity and equal opportunity for all people. We do not discriminate against external or internal candidates on the basis of age; disability; gender, gender reassignment; race; religion or belief; sexual orientation; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity. We believe that diversity develops creativity and enables personal and professional growth where we all learn from each other. We believe in an open culture where ideas are shared candidly and where there is no fear of failure, but rather an understanding that we must experiment and have the freedom to succeed. We believe that everyone has the right to express themselves as they are as this enriches us all. We believe in an open world, social justice, and the pursuit of happiness, after all, we are in the happiness business.

Through Time Out Media and Time Out Market we help our large audience go out in the world's greatest cities and connect global brands as well as local talents with this valuable audience.

About Time Out Group
Time Out Group is a global brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the best of the city - today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to Do, See and Eat across 333 cities in 59 countries and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels. Time Out Market is the world's first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city's best chefs, restaurateurs and unique cultural experiences together under one roof. There are currently Markets in ten cities including Lisbon, New York and Dubai, with several new locations expected to open in 2025 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Group PLC, listed on AIM, is headquartered in London (UK).

About Time Out Market
Time Out Market is the world’s first editorially curated food and cultural market, bringing a city’s best chefs, restaurateurs, drinks and cultural experiences together under one roof. From award-winning chefs to much-loved local gems, from cooking classes with top chefs to installations from local artists and live entertainment, Time Out Market captures and celebrates the best of the city. The first Time Out Market opened in 2014 in a historic market hall in Lisbon, quickly turning into one of the most popular destinations in the city. The success of Lisbon brought further expansion, and there are currently Markets in eleven cities including New York, Montreal, Dubai and Cape Town, with several new locations expected to open in 2025 and beyond, in addition to a pipeline of further locations in advanced discussions. Time Out Market is part of Time Out Group PLC (AIM: TMO), a brand that inspires and enables people to experience the best of the city through Time Out Media and Time Out Market. Time Out launched in London in 1968 to help people discover the exciting new urban cultures that had started up all over the city – today it is the only global brand dedicated to city life. Expert journalists curate and create content about the best things to do, see and eat across 333 cities in 59 countries, and across a unique multi-platform model spanning both digital and physical channels.

Time Out is a dynamic, pioneering brand and so is our team. We want to work with the best and brightest talent because we work for the world’s greatest cities, the people enjoying them and the businesses in them. As a truly global team we get to collaborate with colleagues from New York to Paris, Cape Town and Sydney and beyond. It’s our expertise, authenticity and collaboration that make us successful and a unique team.