Market Research Associate

About Dune Strategy

Role Overview

What You Will Do

• Build and maintain search and paid-click datasets that show how demand for a product, sector or region is moving.
• Map counterparties and competitors: who is advertising, what they promise, and what that says about their commercial position.
• Assemble briefing material for partner-led conversations, with the numbers checked and the source for each one clear.
• Track a regulatory or policy path over time and flag when something changes that affects a live piece of work.
• Write short notes that a partner can open ten minutes before a meeting and rely on.
• Keep research files organised so that a claim made last month can be traced and defended later.

What We Are Looking For

• Clarity of thought: you can take a messy question and break it into a few things worth checking.
• Basic knowledge of market research methods, from studies, an internship, a side project or a first job.
• Writing that holds up, in English, with sentences that say what you mean and no padding.
• Confident use of spreadsheets and a willingness to learn new research and advertising tools as the work requires.
• A pragmatic streak: you know when a number is good enough to act on and when it needs another pass.
• Comfort with incomplete information, and the patience to keep digging rather than fill the gap with a guess.

Helpful Background

• An interest in finance, economics, politics or how businesses make decisions about new markets.
• Familiarity with search advertising dashboards, keyword tools or web analytics.
• Any prior research work, whether a university project, a placement or a job in a related field.
• Arabic or another regional language, which helps when reading local sources and filings.
• Exposure to a sector such as retail, real estate, logistics or financial services.

What the Role Offers

• Fully remote work, with the position based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• Permanent, full-time employment.
• Direct exposure to partners and to the commercial conversations where decisions are shaped.
• The chance to learn how complex regional markets and sovereign capital work, from the inside of live engagements.