Welcome to an institutional community of econometricians, field anthropologists, data scientists, and cross-border trade intermediaries. From grassroots volunteers and project-based gig enumerators to senior corporate practice leads, we develop talent on the ground where emerging market truth is found.
Operations & Research Lab
Volunteers, Gigs & Full-Time
English, Swahili, French & More
Field Volunteers Promoted to Staff
Stratum builds its 1,600+ field network from the ground up. Aspiring researchers and local community members join through structured volunteership, gain certified empirical training, earn through project gigs, and advance to permanent employment.
The foundational entry point for local youth, university students, and community researchers. Volunteers gain hands-on training in satellite GPS geofencing, dialect interview techniques, and ESOMAR research ethics while supporting grassroots field audits.
Certified volunteers advance to our paid project-based gig network. Deployed on demand for commercial client sprints—including 500-kiosk retail audits, sensory consumer taste-tests, and cross-border wholesale price surveys with milestone-based pay.
Top-performing gig enumerators and volunteers who maintain over 99.4% audit precision are formally elevated into permanent contractual employment as Field Operations Coordinators, Data Quality Managers, and Regional Supervisors.
At Stratum, you conduct empirical research that directly influences multimillion-dollar capital allocation, route-to-market architecture, and bilateral cross-border trade.
Operate where 84% of emerging market retail commerce transacts: in high-density informal retail kiosks, open-air wholesale corridors, and peri-urban transport hubs.
Master subnational price elasticity curves, consumer twin archetypes, and real-time mobile money transaction pacing with institutional statistical precision.
Work alongside native dialect ethnographers, econometricians, former multinational FMCG directors, and cross-border commercial trade attorneys.
Engage directly with our dedicated trade desks in China (Guangzhou, Shenzhen) and India (Mumbai, Gujarat), conducting factory audits and supplier due diligence.
Bridge the final commercial mile by structuring distributor matchmaking, bilateral escrow frameworks, and executable B2B commercial agreements.
Your empirical telemetry directly informs multimillion-dollar capital allocation, new product launches, and sovereign market entry roadmaps.
We are actively recruiting quantitative analysts, field operations coordinators, and cross-border trade associates.
Design quantitative survey instruments, manage panel validation workflows, and translate raw consumer telemetry into client-ready commercial intelligence and price elasticity models.
Coordinate enumerator networks across informal kiosk retail hubs, ensure GPS geofence audit compliance, and oversee retail price and stockout audits across major commercial corridors.
Support bilateral distributor matchmaking, facilitate commercial introductions with China and India supply partners, and maintain confidential Deal Room repositories under bilateral NDAs.
Moderate in-depth ethnographic interviews, sensory concept evaluations, and synthesize behavioral consumer drivers across township retail and informal trading environments.
Build and maintain the queryable Stratum Intelligence Graph, integrating mobile money transaction pacing, customs manifest data, and subnational inflation indicators.
We are always eager to review profiles from passionate quantitative researchers, data engineers, and emerging market specialists across Africa, China, India, and global hubs. Send an unsolicited application and CV to our central talent desk in Nairobi.
Stratum combines rigorous field telemetry with legally binding bilateral NDAs and centralized command oversight.
All solution scoping and Deal Room data protected under binding non-disclosure agreements.
A specialized research lead will review your briefing and respond within 6 business hours.
Headquartered in East Africa (Nairobi), orchestrating regional corridors globally.