VP, Data Partnerships

THE TEAM & THE JOB

The Data Strategy & Management organization is the central engine driving YouGov into a fully data-driven enterprise. Its mission is to collect, create, connect, and monetize data assets that power YouGov’s products, enhance customer value, and strengthen competitive advantage.

We ensure that YouGov’s “living data” platform continues to evolve into an integrated, intelligent infrastructure — one that not only captures the voice of people around the world, but also seamlessly delivers that intelligence into the workflows of our clients.

Our Teams Are Organized Into Four Main Functions

Data Strategy & Innovation: Identify market opportunities and emerging data trends; decide which data to collect to drive industry value, product adoption, and customer retention.

Data Integration: Work closely with our product and engineering teams to design and implement the modern data platform, ensuring interoperability and quality both within YouGov and amongst our customers.

Data Governance Determine and implement data standards, policies and procedures, working cross-functionally with our panel and engineering teams;

Data Analytics:

Ensure deep internal and external understanding of YouGov’s customer-facing data assets.

Together, these functions create a continuous feedback loop — aligning internal data capability with market opportunity.

What You Will Be Doing

The Vice President, Data Partnerships will play a pivotal leadership role in shaping and executing YouGov’s global strategy for data monetization and ecosystem expansion, with a focus on the United States. Working closely with the Global Head of Partnerships, this leader will identify initiatives that transform YouGov’s extensive behavioral, respondent-level, and syndicated data assets into scalable products and partnerships that create long-term enterprise value.

The successful candidate will combine commercial acumen, data fluency, and strategic foresight to cultivate partnerships, propose innovative data-driven offerings, and strengthen YouGov’s position as a trusted global leader in data and insights.

Key Responsibilities

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• Help to define a comprehensive data strategy that maximizes the value of YouGov’s global data assets through partnerships, licensing, and integrated product offerings.

A passion for connecting disparate data sources to tell coherent, insightful stories about people and behavior.

The ability to make clear, evidence-based decisions about which data to collect and how to structure it for long-term value.

A strong commitment to accuracy, transparency, and ethical data use, core to YouGov’s reputation for trusted insight.

For roles based in California, New York, Colorado, Massachusetts, or Washington State, the base salary hiring range for this position is $213,000 - 220,000 USD

Compensation offered will be determined by multiple factors including location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience.

Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation and additional benefits.

All US based full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Paid vacation, holidays and sick days
• Flexible working arrangement available
• Group medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company-paid life and disability insurance
• Paid parental leave
• 401(k) with company match
  
  

Why join YouGov?

Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.

Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.

Life at YouGov

We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.

We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.

Equal Opportunity Employer

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.

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