Professional Experience

Quantitative Researcher, Graduate Research Assistant

University of Southern California

08/2020 - Ongoing

• Designed and executed a cross-country A/B test that increased the subscription of local politicians to a NGO’s newsletter.

• Developed the statistical analysis of public opinion estimates by running hierarchical multilevel models with the R package lme4 using complex survey and demographic data.

• Matched, cleaned and managed sensitive data from the cross-national European Value Survey database and web scraped contact details other official European statistical data sources to feed into the hierarchical multilevel models.

• Generated small-area poststratification frames (weights) using census data and the R package anesrake.

• Designed and implemented a cross-national survey on political elites’ attitudes towards environmental policies with embedded experiments in Qualtrics.

UX Researcher & Market Research

Ableton, Inc

May 2021 - August 2021

• Designed and executed a research project to enhance the reach of Ableton’s software by identifying points of market entry, and identified customer pain points to enhance user experience.

• Informing the advertising product strategy after completing a competitive analysis and benchmarking report and identified how increase the performance and traffic of Ableton’s website.

• Collaborated with the design and product team in creating a mix method research framework to improve users’ engagement with the product. This included defining questions for a survey methodology and in-depth interviews, and developing quantitative measurements for usability testing.

Executive Associate Public Affairs and
Corporate Strategic Communications

Estudio de Comunicación, Spain

10/2017 – 06/2018

• Leading consultant in the coordination and development of the firm’s new public affairs department.

• Generating and implementing corporate political strategies, stakeholder mapping and policy analysis.

• Design and data analysis from focus groups with clients’ stakeholders (i.e. consumers and employees)

Associate Public Affairs

KREAB Worldwide, Spain

12/2014 – 09/2017

• Political strategy consultant for international clients from private and non-profit sectors.

• Researcher at the KREAB Research Unit for socio-economic studies on trade and business growth in Spain.

• Designing, implementing and analyzing corporate reputation and perception studies.

Public Relations and Communication Trainee

Ministry of Education and Culture, Australia

03/2012 – 08/2012

• Implementation of the Spanish Ministry of Education Language Assistant Program for 2013-2014.

• Creation of press media relations content and public relations initiatives to promote Spanish culture aborad.