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Remote Chief Researcher jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms, distributed research teams, and mission-driven organizations in sectors like technology, healthcare, policy, and market intelligence. Employers hiring remotely right now include Abco Maintenance, Step Up Women's Network, and The Clear Fund. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Who We Are
Catalyst Capital is a profitable, bootstrapped holding company building a diversified financial services group, funded entirely from its own operating cash. We have never taken outside capital.
The cash engine is Decentralized Masters, an investment education and research company that grew from two co-founders to 160+ people and 4,500+ paying members in four years. Its growth is heavily direct-response and driven by paid media.
Read This Before You Go Further
This is not the marketing job of a single education company, and it is not a brand-only role. You will run marketing across unlike businesses, each with a different customer, channel mix and economics. You will work with the senior people in each business, move between very different conversations in the same day, and be accountable for how customers are generated and what they cost.
Analytics and financial acumen come first. Brand and storytelling still matter and you will keep building them, but right now the group needs an operator who can read a P&L, find where customers are really coming from and shift effort to what works. We are a young, founder-led group that moves at an uncomfortable pace.
Why This Role Exists
Catalyst Capital has grown on the strength of one high-performing business and its direct-response engine. The group now spans education, publishing, software and investment vehicles. Each needs marketing designed for its own customer journey, and the group needs one leader who can see across all of them, allocate effort and spend where the return is best, and keep the brand and positioning coherent as the group expands.
Concretely, you will:
- Own marketing strategy, budget and scoreboard across every business, tied to customers, revenue and pipeline.
- Generate customers profitably in each business using the channels that fit it: direct response and paid media, organic and SaaS growth, events and partners.
- Understand the metrics and the P&L of each business, and how marketing drives them.
- Work with the senior leaders of each business, and lead the Head of Growth at Decentralized Masters.
- Own conversion, positioning and brand across the group, and keep building them as the group repositions as an investment education and research business.
- Protect the brand and reputation in a financial, investment-related category.
What You Will Own
1. Customer Acquisition & Revenue Accountability Across the Portfolio (Primary)
- Own lead volume and quality, cost per acquisition, conversion and revenue contribution in each business.
- Design and run the go-to-market for each business: direct response and paid media for Decentralized Masters and Future Finance, SaaS and organic growth for Legacy, events and partners for Inflection Club.
- Oversee paid media, organic, affiliate, partnerships and lifecycle through business-level leaders.
- Understand the full customer journey across channels, including retention, upsell and renewal, and how it sets allowable acquisition cost.
- Decide where the next dollar and the next hour of marketing effort go across businesses.
2. Data, Analytics & P&L
- Set analytics and attribution standards so every business can see what is working.
- Understand each business's P&L and how marketing drives it. Partner with finance on unit economics, payback and spend guardrails.
- Build, guide and oversee processes for budgetary control and accountability of all marketing spend.
- Report on performance to the CEO and leadership team on a fixed rhythm.
3. Working Across Business Units
- Work with the senior people in each business, adapt quickly between very different businesses and conversations, and keep a clear view of the umbrella group.
- Build shared marketing services where they create real leverage, and keep them out where they would blur a business's own focus.
- Partner with the CEO, COO, CFO, sales, product and education on launches, offers and messaging.
- Own go-to-market for businesses in build.
4. Brand, Positioning & Conversion
- Own positioning and messaging across the group, including the repositioning of Decentralized Masters as an investment education and research company.
- Keep building brand across businesses and spokespeople, and make positioning a conversion lever, not just a style guide.
- Own brand governance and creative standards across a fast-moving, distributed team.
5. Team & Network
- Lead the senior marketing leaders, including the Decentralized Masters growth leader, and develop the talent already here.
- Bring an agency-style playbook and a strong network of agencies, media partners and operators, and put it to work for the group.
- Set clear goals, operating rhythms and accountability across businesses.
6. Compliance, Reputation & Risk
- Ensure marketing claims and messaging are appropriate for a financial and investment audience across education, publishing, software and investment products, working with legal and compliance.
- Own public communications, press and crisis response.
- Manage brand safety across ads, influencers, affiliates and partners.
Requirements
What You Must Bring
Required
- 12+ years in marketing, including 5+ years in senior leadership (CMO, VP Marketing, agency leader or equivalent) at a company or agency that grew meaningfully.
- Direct-response expertise and a record of generating customers profitably, including high-ticket and low-ticket funnels and paid media at scale.
- Strong analytics: you understand the metrics for each channel and funnel, can read a P&L, and can show how marketing drives it.
- Experience managing marketing across more than one business, brand or client, ideally at agency level, and the ability to pivot between them.
- Understanding of customer journeys across channels, including SaaS, organic, events and partner-led growth, not only paid media.
- Strong conversion and positioning skills, and a record of building brand alongside performance.
- A strong professional network of agencies, partners and operators.
- A record of hiring, developing and leading senior marketers.
- Executive presence: credible with founders, senior business leaders, partners and press.
- A prolific, demonstrable user of AI tools in marketing work. You can show us what you have built or automated.
Strongly Preferred
- Familiarity with the financial landscape and investment-related offers, and AGORA-style financial publishing.
- Experience marketing in a regulated or closely scrutinized category, including investment products or funds.
- Experience with SaaS growth and subscription or continuity economics.
- Experience with events and partner-led growth.
- Experience supporting an institutional capital raise or sale process from the marketing side.
- Experience leading a distributed, international team.
Personality & Cultural Fit
- Direct communicator who challenges the founders with data, in the room, in real time.
- Equally credible with a media buyer, a SaaS leader and an institutional adviser.
- Entrepreneurial and comfortable in ambiguity: you build the answer rather than wait for the brief.
- Operator mindset with the discipline of a finance leader and the instincts of a marketer.
- Zero tolerance for sloppy work, in your team or in yourself.
- Effective in a high-performance culture
Benefits
What We Offer
- Competitive Base
- Performance bonus tied to revenue and growth outcomes.
- Full-time, 40 hours a week, with a flexible schedule and unlimited PTO.
- Entirely remote, working from anywhere in the world, with team off-sites.
- Direct access to the founders, a peer relationship with the Group COO and Group CFO, and genuine authority over marketing across the group.
- An inherited growth engine and team, so you are building on a working system rather than starting from zero.
- A supportive, dynamic culture with team members across 30+ countries.
If you are a brand director looking for a bigger title without the accountability for numbers, this is not it.
If you have generated customers profitably across more than one business, understand the P&L behind it, and want to do it again from profitability with your own mandate, we should talk.
Who We Are
Catalyst Capital is a profitable, bootstrapped holding company building a diversified financial services group, funded entirely from its own operating cash. We have never taken outside capital.
The cash engine is Decentralized Masters, an investment education and research company that grew from two co-founders to 160+ people and 4,500+ paying members in four years. Its growth is heavily direct-response and driven by paid media.
Read This Before You Go Further
This is not the marketing job of a single education company, and it is not a brand-only role. You will run marketing across unlike businesses, each with a different customer, channel mix and economics. You will work with the senior people in each business, move between very different conversations in the same day, and be accountable for how customers are generated and what they cost.
Analytics and financial acumen come first. Brand and storytelling still matter and you will keep building them, but right now the group needs an operator who can read a P&L, find where customers are really coming from and shift effort to what works. We are a young, founder-led group that moves at an uncomfortable pace.
Why This Role Exists
Catalyst Capital has grown on the strength of one high-performing business and its direct-response engine. The group now spans education, publishing, software and investment vehicles. Each needs marketing designed for its own customer journey, and the group needs one leader who can see across all of them, allocate effort and spend where the return is best, and keep the brand and positioning coherent as the group expands.
Concretely, you will:
- Own marketing strategy, budget and scoreboard across every business, tied to customers, revenue and pipeline.
- Generate customers profitably in each business using the channels that fit it: direct response and paid media, organic and SaaS growth, events and partners.
- Understand the metrics and the P&L of each business, and how marketing drives them.
- Work with the senior leaders of each business, and lead the Head of Growth at Decentralized Masters.
- Own conversion, positioning and brand across the group, and keep building them as the group repositions as an investment education and research business.
- Protect the brand and reputation in a financial, investment-related category.
What You Will Own
1. Customer Acquisition & Revenue Accountability Across the Portfolio (Primary)
- Own lead volume and quality, cost per acquisition, conversion and revenue contribution in each business.
- Design and run the go-to-market for each business: direct response and paid media for Decentralized Masters and Future Finance, SaaS and organic growth for Legacy, events and partners for Inflection Club.
- Oversee paid media, organic, affiliate, partnerships and lifecycle through business-level leaders.
- Understand the full customer journey across channels, including retention, upsell and renewal, and how it sets allowable acquisition cost.
- Decide where the next dollar and the next hour of marketing effort go across businesses.
2. Data, Analytics & P&L
- Set analytics and attribution standards so every business can see what is working.
- Understand each business's P&L and how marketing drives it. Partner with finance on unit economics, payback and spend guardrails.
- Build, guide and oversee processes for budgetary control and accountability of all marketing spend.
- Report on performance to the CEO and leadership team on a fixed rhythm.
3. Working Across Business Units
- Work with the senior people in each business, adapt quickly between very different businesses and conversations, and keep a clear view of the umbrella group.
- Build shared marketing services where they create real leverage, and keep them out where they would blur a business's own focus.
- Partner with the CEO, COO, CFO, sales, product and education on launches, offers and messaging.
- Own go-to-market for businesses in build.
4. Brand, Positioning & Conversion
- Own positioning and messaging across the group, including the repositioning of Decentralized Masters as an investment education and research company.
- Keep building brand across businesses and spokespeople, and make positioning a conversion lever, not just a style guide.
- Own brand governance and creative standards across a fast-moving, distributed team.
5. Team & Network
- Lead the senior marketing leaders, including the Decentralized Masters growth leader, and develop the talent already here.
- Bring an agency-style playbook and a strong network of agencies, media partners and operators, and put it to work for the group.
- Set clear goals, operating rhythms and accountability across businesses.
6. Compliance, Reputation & Risk
- Ensure marketing claims and messaging are appropriate for a financial and investment audience across education, publishing, software and investment products, working with legal and compliance.
- Own public communications, press and crisis response.
- Manage brand safety across ads, influencers, affiliates and partners.
Requirements
What You Must Bring
Required
- 12+ years in marketing, including 5+ years in senior leadership (CMO, VP Marketing, agency leader or equivalent) at a company or agency that grew meaningfully.
- Direct-response expertise and a record of generating customers profitably, including high-ticket and low-ticket funnels and paid media at scale.
- Strong analytics: you understand the metrics for each channel and funnel, can read a P&L, and can show how marketing drives it.
- Experience managing marketing across more than one business, brand or client, ideally at agency level, and the ability to pivot between them.
- Understanding of customer journeys across channels, including SaaS, organic, events and partner-led growth, not only paid media.
- Strong conversion and positioning skills, and a record of building brand alongside performance.
- A strong professional network of agencies, partners and operators.
- A record of hiring, developing and leading senior marketers.
- Executive presence: credible with founders, senior business leaders, partners and press.
- A prolific, demonstrable user of AI tools in marketing work. You can show us what you have built or automated.
Strongly Preferred
- Familiarity with the financial landscape and investment-related offers, and AGORA-style financial publishing.
- Experience marketing in a regulated or closely scrutinized category, including investment products or funds.
- Experience with SaaS growth and subscription or continuity economics.
- Experience with events and partner-led growth.
- Experience supporting an institutional capital raise or sale process from the marketing side.
- Experience leading a distributed, international team.
Personality & Cultural Fit
- Direct communicator who challenges the founders with data, in the room, in real time.
- Equally credible with a media buyer, a SaaS leader and an institutional adviser.
- Entrepreneurial and comfortable in ambiguity: you build the answer rather than wait for the brief.
- Operator mindset with the discipline of a finance leader and the instincts of a marketer.
- Zero tolerance for sloppy work, in your team or in yourself.
- Effective in a high-performance culture
Benefits
What We Offer
- Competitive Base
- Performance bonus tied to revenue and growth outcomes.
- Full-time, 40 hours a week, with a flexible schedule and unlimited PTO.
- Entirely remote, working from anywhere in the world, with team off-sites.
- Direct access to the founders, a peer relationship with the Group COO and Group CFO, and genuine authority over marketing across the group.
- An inherited growth engine and team, so you are building on a working system rather than starting from zero.
- A supportive, dynamic culture with team members across 30+ countries.
If you are a brand director looking for a bigger title without the accountability for numbers, this is not it.
If you have generated customers profitably across more than one business, understand the P&L behind it, and want to do it again from profitability with your own mandate, we should talk.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services10
- Technology & Software7
- Science & Research6
- Non-Profit & Social Services2
- Fintech1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote chief researcher jobs.
- Advanced degree in a research-intensive field such as social science, life science, or public policy
- Demonstrated experience leading multi-phase original research projects from design through publication
- Proficiency with quantitative analysis tools such as R, Python, SPSS, or Stata
- Experience managing or mentoring junior researchers, analysts, or research coordinators
- Strong record of presenting findings to non-technical stakeholders, executives, or policymakers
- Familiarity with IRB protocols, research ethics standards, and data privacy requirements
Tips for Your Remote Chief Researcher Job Search
Show your async research process clearly
Remote employers want proof you can run a research agenda without in-person check-ins. Include work samples that show how you structure questions, manage sources, and communicate findings in writing, since those outputs reveal exactly how you'll operate on a distributed team.
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote chief researcher openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through location-filtered listings on general boards.
Demonstrate remote tooling in your application
Name the specific tools you use to manage distributed research workflows, such as Notion, Airtable, or collaborative document environments. Remote hiring managers read applications looking for candidates who already know how to run research operations without a shared office.
Frame your research leadership around deliverables
Remote chief researcher roles are evaluated on outputs, not hours. Describe past projects by what you produced, the methodology you led, and the decisions your research informed, so the hiring team can assess your impact without meeting you in person.
Remote Chief Researcher Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote chief researcher job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed teams that run research functions without a central office, since those employers are built to manage senior researchers asynchronously. Remote hiring managers screen hard for self-direction, clear written communication, and the ability to scope and deliver research projects without daily check-ins. A portfolio of past research outputs, published reports, or documented methodologies signals exactly what remote employers need to see.
Which companies hire remote chief researchers?
Employers currently hiring remote chief researchers include Abco Maintenance, Step Up Women's Network, and The Clear Fund, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote chief researcher roles are most common at remote-first technology firms, distributed healthcare and policy organizations, and market research companies that operate across multiple time zones.
Can you get a remote chief researcher job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level chief researcher roles are harder to land because employers expect you to manage complex projects independently from day one. You can strengthen your case by showing completed research projects, published work, or freelance engagements that demonstrate you can deliver structured findings without close supervision. Remote-first startups and research nonprofits are more open to candidates with strong portfolios over formal experience.
Do you need a degree for remote chief researcher jobs?
Not always, though most remote chief researcher postings list a graduate degree as preferred given the seniority of the role. Remote employers increasingly weigh demonstrated research output, methodological fluency, and a history of leading projects over formal credentials alone. Candidates who can show published work, independent research, or applied expertise in a relevant domain often compete effectively alongside degree holders.
Which industries hire the most remote chief researchers?
Remote chief researcher roles concentrate in Consulting & Professional Services, Technology & Software, and Science & Research, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Those sectors hire chief researchers remotely because their research functions are inherently documentation-driven and can operate effectively across distributed teams.
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