Team Lead – Survey Programming (Qualtrics)

Guidepoint
Gurugram +4 more
Hybrid

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for experienced survey programming leaders who standardize processes and manage cross-functional teams, with a preference for Qualtrics expertise and hybrid work arrangements in India.

Best fit for

  • Experienced Qualtrics survey programmers with team leadership and QA process design skills
    — “Oversee a team of 6 survey programmers... setting standards for quality assurance”
  • Candidates with a history of managing operations teams in market research
    — “3+ years experience managing teams of programmers or other operations staff”
  • Individuals skilled in training others and translating spec documents into survey designs
    — “Train and mentor junior staff on best practices... translating spec documents to final survey designs”

Things to consider

  • Work hours must align with US East Coast colleagues, which may impact flexibility
    — “work hours aligned with US-based colleagues on the East Coast”
  • Candidates must be prepared to handle both strategic and operational responsibilities
    — “Serve as a strategic lead... and serve as a direct project manager on large or urgent work”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience in creating and documenting survey programming best practices
    — “helping to design processes, systems, and best practice documentation”
  • Demonstrate ability to resolve project issues and lead complex engagements
    — “stepping in to resolve project issues... provide leadership on kickoffs for complex or sustained engagements”
  • Showcase expertise in QA processes and survey design optimization
    — “Experience QAing surveys and designing survey QA processes and workflows”
  • Emphasize skills in custom web design using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
    — “Experience with JavaScript/jQuery, HTML, and CSS for developing custom question types”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • centralized and standardized survey programming function
  • trained and mentored junior staff
  • resolved project issues
  • designed processes and systems for survey programming
Typical background
10+ years experience in programming market research surveys3+ years experience managing teams of programmers

Skills & requirements

Required

Team ManagementSurvey ProgrammingQualtricsJavaScriptHTMLCSSSQLProject ManagementTraining And MentoringQuality Assurance

Preferred

PythonJqueryDecipherForstaAlchemerSawtoothVersive

Stack & domain

QualtricsJavaScriptJqueryHTMLCSSLeadershipCommunicationProblem-solvingTrainingMarket Research

About the role

Original posting from Guidepoint via Greenhouse

Overview: 

Guidepoint's Market Research Team is seeking a leader for its Survey Programming team, to help centralize, standardize, and grow a function dedicated to programming and coding questionnaires into web-based platforms, and conducting QA on programmed survey work. This position would be expected to work hours aligned with US-based colleagues on the East Coast.

This can be a hybrid position out of one of our offices in India (Mumbai, Pune,Gurugram) or remote.

What You’ll Do: 

Oversee a team of 6 survey programmers of differing experience levels, setting standards for quality assurance and timely delivery of questionnaires programmed into Qualtrics

Coordinate with other quantitative survey operational team leads (fieldwork, data automation) and client service staff/project managers to ensure effective cross-functional collaboration

Serve as a strategic lead for survey programming within the market research organization, helping to design processes, systems, and best practice documentation for survey programming at Guidepoint

Train and mentor junior staff on best practices for survey programming and coding, including improving efficiency in translating spec documents to final survey designs, effectively testing routing and randomization for accuracy, and using JavaScript and other custom web design languages to create custom layouts and presentations to meet client needs

Serve as a senior voice for internal communication, stepping in to resolve project issues between team members and operational staff, provide leadership on kickoffs for complex or sustained engagements, and serve as an advisor on sales or internal kick-off calls where demonstrated programming experience is needed

Consult as needed with survey project teams on survey design, making best-practice recommendations on question type or structure that will best work within our systems and reduce respondent burden, and flagging any designs that may be particularly time-consuming or challenging to execute successfully

Serve as a direct project manager on large or urgent work as-needed

Other duties as required

What You Have: 

10+ years experience in programming market research surveys in Qualtrics (strongly preferred) or another online survey platform (Decipher/Forsta, Alchemer, Sawtooth, Versive)

3+ years experience managing teams of programmers or other operations staff in market research to achieve targets on volume, timeliness, and quality

Ability to interface with internal leaders, helping to set strategy and training goals for survey programming, identify and resolve problems at a project and strategic level as they arise

Experience with JavaScript/jQuery, HTML, and CSS for developing custom question types or presentations, including training and upskilling staff on web design languages and tools

Experience QAing surveys and designing survey QA processes and workflows to ensure that work aligns to requested spec/design work

Ability to consult and train on best practices for survey design and experience, flagging if survey designs may have issues that make them difficult for end-respondents to answer

What we Offer:

Competitive compensation

Employee medical coverage

Central office location

Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions

Casual work environment 

About Guidepoint:

Guidepoint powers end-to-end research workflows for the world’s best research teams. 

 Backed by a global network of more than 2 million experts and over 1,600 employees, Guidepoint delivers real-time access to expertise, primary research, and actionable knowledge that help organizations make informed decisions. Through consultations, surveys, events, proprietary content, and AI-enabled tools, we support every stage of the decision-making process—from developing hypotheses and gathering insights to validating assumptions and building conviction for critical decisions. 

 At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, experts, and clients, which enables us to foster meaningful connections and a broad range of perspectives. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment where individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences can contribute and succeed. 

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Source: Guidepoint careers (Greenhouse)

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