Global marketing intelligence platform combining consumer research, analytics, and AI
Kantar operates as a massive, geographically distributed research and analytics business (10,000+ employees across 25+ countries) built on a hybrid tech foundation: legacy BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) paired with modern data infrastructure (Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Node.js). The hiring mix—dominated by research and data roles with minimal engineering velocity—reflects their core business model: human-led market research at scale, augmented by data pipelines rather than product engineering. Active projects span brand tracking, portfolio strategy, and marketplace expansion, while pain points cluster around process automation and capacity management, suggesting they're in the midst of a technology transformation to reduce manual research workflows.
Notable leadership hires: Research Director, Marketing Communication Lead, Head of Analytics, Client Director, Measurement Lead
Kantar is a privately held market research and analytics company headquartered in London with over 10,000 employees. They serve enterprise brands across industries with a service portfolio spanning brand measurement, consumer segmentation, media effectiveness studies, and polling. The company combines traditional research methodologies (surveys, brand tracking, health research) with modern analytics infrastructure—Kafka-based streaming, SQL/PostgreSQL data warehouses, and Power BI dashboards. Their platform integrates human expertise with synthetic data and AI-native capabilities to support marketing strategy and brand growth decisions. Operations span multiple geographies with active hiring across 25+ countries in research, data, and support functions.
Kantar's stack spans BI (Power BI, Tableau, DAX), cloud infrastructure (Azure, Kubernetes, Docker), data warehousing (PostgreSQL, Redshift), streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and application development (TypeScript, Node.js, Express). They're actively adopting Azure and use Auth0 for identity management.
Kantar has active hiring across 25+ countries including the United Kingdom, United States, India, Brazil, Netherlands, France, Philippines, and others. Current open roles emphasize research (23), data (19), and marketing (14) functions with minimal engineering hiring.
Active projects include brand lift studies on Reddit, brand performance measurement, brand portfolio strategy, consumer segmentation, brand health tracking, and a marketplace platform. They're also piloting new research solutions and implementing end-to-end market research projects across multiple geographies.
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