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- Head of Research producing original immigration data, forecasts, and market models for CV Labs. Turning proprietary signal into authoritative CanadaVisa content and company strategy.
Responsibilities
- Produce original findings, models, and analysis from public data, policy, and proprietary company signal
- Answer market-sizing questions and maintain living market models
- Track policy signals and program data to forecast immigration trends
- Produce original data stories, eligibility analyses, trend pieces, and annual flagship reports
- Build methods, privacy discipline, and rigor for converting search demand, community questions, assessment data, and case patterns into insights
- Size new practice areas and markets for company investment decisions
- Represent research through methodology notes, media briefings, and occasional speaking engagements
- Set the research agenda with the COO
- Coordinate the publishing calendar with the media team
- Supply research for CV Labs and CanadaVisa content, newsletters, PR, strategy, and policy conversations
Requirements
- Serious empirical work with demographic, economic, or policy data
- Experience with census and administrative datasets, survey design, or population modeling
- Domain depth in migration, demography, or public policy, or demonstrated ability to build it quickly
- Ability to translate rigorous findings into headlines and journalist-quotable writing
- Experience working to a cadence of publications, reports, or briefings
- Use of AI throughout the workflow for data wrangling, literature synthesis, or model prototyping
- Intellectual honesty and commitment to rigorous, caveated findings
- Comfort being the entire research function initially
- PhD is a strong signal but not a requirement
- Direct Canadian immigration, citizenship, or diaspora research experience is a bonus
- Experience at Statistics Canada, IRCC, a think tank, or migration-focused academic centre is a bonus
- Public research byline is a bonus
- Genealogy, historical-records, or population-ancestry research exposure is a bonus
- Experience making research a growth engine is a bonus
Benefits
- Flexible vacation — take what you need; we care about what you ship
- Competitive health, dental, and wellness coverage
- Direct partnership with the COO
- Media platform with 1.5M monthly readers waiting for your findings
- Research function that is yours to define
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