Location: Bangalore (in-office 3 days a week)
Duration: 3 months
Start: Immediate
Type: Contract
Experience: 2-3 years
Stipend: 50,000/month

We are building Canvass, a consumer intelligence platform for the Indian market. We're a small team funded by Rainmatter and some prestigous fintech Angels from the ecosystem. Our work sits at the intersection of ethnographic research, AI, and product strategy - and right now, we're moving fast.

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What you'll own

Research operations. You're the person who makes sure fieldwork actually happens - on time, with the right participants, and without chaos. Recruitment coordination, screener design, scheduling, vendor management, incentives, logistics. You've done this before, and you know all the places it can go wrong.

Qualitative interviews. You'll conduct in-depth interviews - 45 to 60 minutes, one-on-one, behavioral in nature.If you've never done this before, this isn't the right role.

Synthesis support. After fieldwork wraps, you'll contribute to analysis - tagging transcripts, identifying patterns, helping structure what we found into something that can be acted on.

Participant panel building. You'll contribute to our ongoing effort to map India's research recruitment landscape - agencies, freelancers, self-serve platforms, niche panels. Structured, living, queryable.

What we're looking for

2–3 years of experience in qualitative research, user research, or consumer insights. Actual fieldwork - sitting across from a person (or on a call with one) and learning how they think.

Experience with in-depth interviews. One-on-one, behavioral, semi-structured. You should be able to describe your approach to probing without reading a list of techniques.

Operational instincts. Research operations is a skill, not a chore. If you've run a multi-city recruitment drive, managed a participant panel, or coordinated a 15-interview sprint without things falling apart, tell us about it.

Clear written communication. You'll write screeners, recruitment briefs, discussion guides, and synthesis notes. These need to be precise - not beautiful.

Comfort with ambiguity. We're a startup. Some processes are still being built. You'll be more useful if that excites you rather than unsettles you.

Qualitative Researcher - Contract