Cultural Research Intern

Work Status: Full-Time, Paid Location: Singapore [interested candidates must be permitted to work in Singapore] Duration: 3-6 months Please reach out to jannah@junkasia.com with your CV if interested WHO WE ARE JUNK is a culture-first research consultancy. Our business thrives on deep cultural understanding for strategic consulting. As cultural experts, we unlock deeper whys, draw linkages, and go beyond the obvious, literal, trendy to excavate underlying codes, unspoken but ingrained rules, and the intersectional macro context driving choices and behaviours, framing values and mindsets. That’s one half of what we do, as multi-method cultural and qualitative researchers. As strategic consultants, we translate insights and foresights into strategic implications and opportunities. Our work has applications across business workstreams including branding, communication, innovation, experience design, placemaking, and more. Our deliverables include reports, playbooks, strategic maps, concepts, workshops, with openness to develop new outputs for greater impact and actionability. JUNK is a business unit within the secret little agency group of companies, and part of the mother family network globally. THE ROLE A cultural intern in JUNK is curious, driven, creative, independent, biased to action with strong solution orientation. The individual must be passionate about understanding people and cultures, able to decode data, signals, and trends in a structured and rigorous manner, and translate them into written reports with strong visual impact. This individual will report to a manager in JUNK. Key Responsibilities include: 1. Cultural insights gathering - support with research and any intelligence gathering for JUNK internal or client projects. This may include: Researching and monitoring trends and industry / competitor activities Identifying threats and opportunities surrounding the business and category Audience research, including conducting primary fieldwork such a moderation, fieldwork supervision and note-taking Analysis and distillation of key learnings and insights Crafting research reports with clear, structured deck narrative and visualization Crafting other deliverables, including stimuli for consumer testing, crafting brand or product concepts Presentation of research findings confidently 2. Project management, including owning and driving operations, project set up, 3rd party partner coordination, data organization and knowledge management VALUES AND BEHAVIOUR Biased to action: strong sense of ownership and responsibility, drives processes and outcomes Makes it all about the work: strives for excellence, ability to apply skills creatively and across range of workstreams, respectful, patient, objective, not personal or political Swims outside of their lane: proactive resourceful, strong solution orientation, helpful team player Speaks up and brings a point of view: analytical and perceptive thinker, readily and confidently participates and expresses thoughts in service of outcomes and solutions A spark, not a drain: positive, joyful, works well in small team, mentors junior team members with candour, empathy, nurturance, maintains harmony in team Open to change: able to adapt and pivot, ‘can do’ spirit, initiates and develops better approaches and systems, appreciates flexibility and dynamism of boutique set up THE OFFER Open and collaborative team with flat structure, minimal hierarchy A fun, vibrant, dynamic work culture and workplace, within JUNK and in the wider network of companies within TSLA group in Singapore Opportunity to work on a diverse range of regional projects with an exciting portfolio of brands across sectors, from established MNCs to ambitious start-ups and SMEs Global Exposure and Experience through collaborations with the MOTHER family network. Please reach out to jannah@junkasia.com with your CV if interested