Senior Analyst, AI

Do you want to develop your career and make an impact in the fast-growth, fast-moving B2B technology space? At Informa TechTarget, you’ll collaborate and grow alongside some of the industry’s most respected experts. You’ll work with leading brands and be exposed to world-shaping innovations. You’ll apply your energy and intellect to helping clients be faster to market and faster to revenue.

We’re a vibrant community of world-class practitioners – over 2,000 colleagues strong – with offices in 19 locations around the world. We’re traded on Nasdaq and also part of Informa PLC, a global leader in business-to-business events, digital services, and academic research in the FTSE 100.

About Informa TechTarget

Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT) informs, influences and connects the world’s technology buyers and sellers, to accelerate growth from R&D to ROI. With an unparalleled reach of over 220 highly targeted technology-specific websites and more than 50 million permissioned first-party audience members, Informa TechTarget has a unique understanding of and insight into technology markets. Underpinned by those audiences and their data, we offer expert-led, data-driven, and digitally enabled services that deliver significant impact and measurable outcomes to our clients.

We provide our customers with:

• Trusted information that shapes the industry and informs investment
• Intelligence and advice that guides and influences strategy
• Advertising that grows reputation and establishes thought leadership
• Custom content that engages and prompts action
• Intent and demand generation that more precisely targets and converts

Our organization is committed to sustainability, diversity, wellbeing, and ethical working practices.

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This role is based in our Shanghai Central Plaza Office.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Analyst to join our experienced global team that covers the AI ecosystem full stack: from AI compute to AI developer tooling and enterprise AI platforms, to enterprise AI applications. We work with market-leading brands from hyperscalers to AI startups, helping clients with their product and GTM strategies, and understanding of where the next wave of AI disruption is coming from to harness it for tangible and sustained business value.

The successful candidate will primarily focus on the Chinese AI market and innovation, as well as within the broader APAC region and globally. You will be responsible for quantitative and qualitative research such as forecasts, vendor comparisons, market trackers and reports, custom research projects, survey research, white papers, webinars, and industry speaking engagements.

We’re looking for an experienced analyst who has produced third-party research assets, with excellent knowledge of the Chinese AI ecosystem and existing relationships. The position is suited to an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and collaborative person able to express considered and bold views through thought-provoking research and analysis to a mixed audience of technical end users through senior industry executives. Ability to quickly develop strong relationships, interpersonal skills and to effectively work as part of a global team are essential.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver insightful research

Create high quality research in the form of reports, trackers, forecasts, and presentations. Develop and test hypotheses that challenge existing beliefs within a market to provide unique insight. Use all the tools and knowledge at your disposal to produce analysis that goes beyond the descriptive to give Omdia the edge over its competition.

Market high-level industry expertise

Use your expertise and experience to define and expand an area of research. Market that expertise at a senior level within our clients and prospects. Provide a timely response to market events and offer up-to-date opinions founded on broad-based experience.

Build and maintain client relationships

Over time, and as your career progresses at Omdia and Informa TechTarget, build and maintain a network of client relationships. Become a trusted advisor to these clients over time.

Ensure effective client management

Build and manage ongoing relationships with clients. Represent Omdia and Informa TechTarget, demonstrating your expertise in AI platforms, as well as taking a broad view of AI technology and its delivery of business outcomes. Support sales, marketing, product management, and PR teams. Participate in client-facing meetings with the sales team and add credibility to Omdia and Informa TechTarget relationships.

Expand strategic planning involvement

Offer insight to our planning meetings. Contribute to the direction and strategy of the team. Through the understanding of client needs based on senior-level relationships, develop a customer-based point of view for new products and advisory services.

• At least 3 years of professional experience. Experience as industry analyst or in the fields of vendor corporate strategy, market research, consulting, journalism, or a relevant role within a technology company preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business-related topic.
• Proven commercial acumen, with a track record of collaborating effectively with sales teams to identify, develop, and capitalize on business opportunities that drive growth and success.
• Solid understanding and insight into the Chinese AI ecosystem, and the ability to quickly form credible, distinctive, compelling, and original opinions on how aspects of these will evolve, and why.
• Quantitative research, with the ability to build, maintain, and enhance market forecasts and trackers, and present complex concepts and trends from data in a compelling manner.
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex ideas.
• Strong verbal communication and presentation skills, including a personable manner and the confidence to present to, engage with, and influence executives at the highest levels of the industry.
• The ability to build and enhance a profile with industry contacts and opinion formers. A network of existing industry contacts would be desirable.
• The ability to quickly and coherently identify and communicate critical issues impacting the commercial performance of Omdia’s vendor clients.
• A proven track record of managing a workload to ensure deadlines are met and client expectations are exceeded.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
• Cultural awareness, as the role involves working with global clients and within a global virtual team environment.

TechTarget, Inc., doing business as Informa TechTarget, including its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.

If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process and, or in the advertised position, please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner for the role once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed and considered in confidence.

Informa TechTarget complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable federal, state or local law.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at an Informa event – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

Our benefits include:

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: annual leave, birthday leave, volunteer days and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

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