Summary
Maria Yarolin is an insights leader with 10+ years delivering quantitative research and media analytics across healthcare, pharma, public affairs, finance, and consumer brands. As Insights Team Manager at Meltwater and former Intelligence/Client Insights Manager at Cision, she combines rigorous project management with hands-on data science—NLP, predictive modeling, and interactive dashboarding—to turn media monitoring and survey data into strategic recommendations. She has run complex mixed-mode and fast-turnaround studies, developed panels and syndicated products, and navigated regulatory research for FDA submissions. A trained data scientist from General Assembly, Maria pairs traditional research rigor with modern analytics workflows and has led teams while collaborating closely with developers and vendors to operationalize insights. Notably, her background spans both academic longitudinal research and commercial PR intelligence, giving her a rare fluency in experimental design, IRB processes, and client-facing storytelling. Based in New York, she excels at translating messy cross-channel data into clear business KPIs and new revenue opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
certificate, Data Science Immersive, certificate, Data Science Immersive at General Assembly
B.S., Biology with a specialty in Vertebrate Physiology, Psychology minor, B.S., Biology with a specialty in Vertebrate Physiology, Psychology minor at Penn State University
M.A., Educational Psychology, M.A., Educational Psychology at New York University