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About Me

Strategic insights and market intelligence professional with 5+ years of experience driving product strategy, growth, and investment decisions across fintech, e-commerce, government, and FMCG in Americas and Southeast Asia. Combines quantitative analytics with behavioral and policy research to uncover opportunities, influence executive decisions, and optimize customer experiences.

Data Analytics

Advanced statistical analysis and data visualization to extract meaningful patterns and trends.

Consumer Insights

Deep dive into consumer behavior, preferences, and decision-making processes through surveys and focus groups.

Market Intelligence

Comprehensive market analysis and competitive intelligence to identify opportunities and threats.

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Experience
Investment Analyst

Indonesia Investment Promotion Center (IIPC) New York / BKPM

  • Identify high-potential investment opportunities through bilateral policy analysis and industry benchmarking, supporting foreign direct investment (FDI) initiatives across the Americas.
  • Create investment-grade pitch decks and competitive positioning frameworks, analyze project unique selling points, export tariff structures, and market entry barriers to facilitate business matchmaking.
  • Lead digital go-to-market efforts, executing a strategic website rebrand and deploying data-driven marketing campaigns to optimize inbound investor lead generation.
  • Manage high-level investment forums, generating a consistent pipeline of ~20 qualified investor leads per event.
Customer Research

Allo Bank (IDX: BBHI)

  • Shaped the go-to-market strategy for banking promotion bundles and QR payments by analyzing competitive gaps, prompting marketing to launch targeted promotions that increased product adoption.
  • Utilized SQL queries to extract a base of 5,000+ daily acquisitions, diagnosing onboarding friction through funnel and behavioral analysis to inform a redesign that increased first-day activation rates by 20%.
  • Analyzed 1,500+ weekly support tickets to pinpoint core pain points, achieving a 36% reduction in volume by updating the FAQ database and minimizing live agent dependency.
  • Mentored 2 junior researchers for 'voice of customer' reporting pipeline, cutting turnaround time from 10 to 5 days.
Senior Market Research Analyst

Bukalapak (IDX: BUKA)

  • Provided fortnightly market intelligence briefings for 2 core apps (totaling 2M+ combined DAU) to senior management by analyzing the competitive landscape via surveys, market basket analysis, and campaign categorization to counter market surges.
  • Analyzed declining power user active time for a 1,200+ user B2B SaaS product, justifying its strategic sunset to realign product resources toward the core 500K+ user ecosystem.
  • Automated social media analytics using Python, reducing third-party data subscription costs by 40%.
  • Led a data labeling project for social media content, achieving 90% accuracy for sentiment analysis.
Junior Research Executive

YouGov (LON: YOU)

  • Managed end-to-end execution of 20+ annual quantitative projects for premier FMCG, fintech, and on-demand clients.
  • Improved project efficiency by redesigning the omnibus study, reducing average project turnaround time from 5 to 3 days.
  • Created data-driven sales materials that converted cold leads into paying clients for custom research studies.
Skills
Strategic & business

Data storytelling, insight synthesis, competitive intelligence, market sizing, product analytics, segmentation.

Quantitative research & statistics

Survey design, questionnaire development, Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey, Typeform, A/B testing, regression, clustering, conjoint analysis, ANOVA.

Qualitative & UX research

In-depth interviews (IDI), focus groups (FGD), usability testing, thematic analysis, content analysis.

Technical & data tools

SQL (query & script modification), R, Python (pandas), SPSS, Tableau, Looker, Google Data Studio, Figma.

Education
Consumer Psychology (M.A.)

New York University

GPA: 4.00/4.00. Research Assitant at the Trope Lab. Grader for Introduction to Psychology (PSYCH-UA).

Bachelor of Psychology (S.Psi)

Universitas Gadjah Mada

GPA: 3.89/4.00. Silver medal in national psychometrics competition.