AI Market and Competitive Intelligence Analyst

Autodesk; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 89,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk seeks a senior competitive intelligence professional to shape AI-driven market insights across Manufacturing, AECO, and Media & Entertainment. You will build scalable data pipelines and synthesize signals into strategic viewpoints.

This role blends hands-on analytics with strategic storytelling, collaborating with product, engineering, and leadership to test market assumptions and guide decision-making. Occasional travel to industry events is expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, market research, business intelligence, strategy, consulting, product management, software or data engineering
• Know where automated output needs a human check, and build that check into the system
• You start things; likely your proudest work is unassigned
• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, data science, computer science, engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated systems that produce our intelligence, including source monitoring and refresh cadences
• Track how AI is changing our markets, following competitors, startups, funding, product releases, partnerships, research, talent movement, and regulatory shifts
• Work directly with business functions, product management, engineering, and technical benchmarking to define target markets, map competitive landscapes, size opportunities, identify gaps, and test market and commercial assumptions against what is actually buildable
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into clear points of view, challenging assumptions, reconciling conflicting perspectives, and connecting findings to broader implications for Autodesk
• Take the lead on coordinating research and intelligence projects as needed, bringing structure to ambiguous questions, facilitating discussions, managing contributors and timelines
• Produce recurring competitive intelligence and fast-turn analysis for leaders, translating complex market and technical developments into concise, executive-ready briefs, presentations, and market maps, including for C‑suite
• Keep the competitive picture available to teams on demand
• Bring us tools, methods, and ideas before we know to ask. Push when you think we’re doing something the slow way
• Occasional travel to industry events and internal meetings

Skills

Workflow automation

Competitive intelligence

Market research

Data storytelling

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, economics, data science, computer science, engineering, or related field

Tools

Python

SQL

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Position Overview

Autodesk is shaping the future of the design and make industries by helping our customers navigate a rapidly evolving AI-driven landscape. Supporting our Autodesk AI initiatives, you will help us understand how AI and new business models are reshaping the competitive landscape across Manufacturing, AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations), and Media and Entertainment.

Job Requisition ID #

26WD100617

Position Overview

Autodesk is shaping the future of the design and make industries by helping our customers navigate a rapidly evolving AI-driven landscape. Supporting our Autodesk AI initiatives, you will help us understand how AI and new business models are reshaping the competitive landscape across Manufacturing, AECO (Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations), and Media and Entertainment.

This is an individual contributor role on a team with deep business, industry, and technical experience. A successful candidate builds with AI by default, not as a tool added on top.

The way competitive intelligence gets done is changing faster than most business functions can adapt. We’re hiring for that gap. You will spend as much time building the systems that produce our intelligence as you will producing it.

Location

We support hybrid work, and you work near our Boston, Massachusetts, Toronto, Canada, Portland, Oregon, or San Francisco, California offices. This role follows East Coast hours.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the automated systems that produce our intelligence, including source monitoring and refresh cadences
• Find the parts of our process that shouldn’t be manual anymore and fix them without waiting for permission
• Track how AI is changing our markets, following competitors, startups, funding, product releases, partnerships, research, talent movement, and regulatory shifts
• Work directly with business functions, product management, engineering, and technical benchmarking to define target markets, map competitive landscapes, size opportunities, identify gaps, and test market and commercial assumptions against what is actually buildable
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into clear points of view, challenging assumptions, reconciling conflicting perspectives, and connecting findings to broader implications for Autodesk
• You have a working sense of what is hard and what is easy to build with AI right now, and you can form a reasonable hypothesis about how a competitor pulled something off
• Take the lead on coordinating research and intelligence projects as needed, bringing structure to ambiguous questions, facilitating discussions, managing contributors and timelines, keeping teams on track, and ensuring conclusions are captured in clear final deliverables
• Produce recurring competitive intelligence and fast-turn analysis for leaders, translating complex market and technical developments into concise, executive-ready briefs, presentations, and market maps, including for C‑suite
• Keep the competitive picture available to teams on demand
• Bring us tools, methods, and ideas before we know to ask. Push when you think we’re doing something the slow way
• Occasional travel to industry events and internal meetings

Minimum Qualifications

• You’ve built workflows, agents, or pipelines that run without you. Bring one to the interview and walk us through the choices you made
• Strong analytical judgment and the ability to turn incomplete or fragmented information into a defensible point of view
• You start things. The work you’re proudest of is probably something nobody assigned you
• 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following, or a combination: competitive intelligence, market research, business intelligence, strategy, consulting, product management, software or data engineering
• Know where automated output needs a human check, and build that check into the system
• Ability to lead projects or significant workstreams involving multiple stakeholders and deadlines
• Data storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to make complex information clear to senior stakeholders
• Ability to collaborate on analytical work, including contributing to projects led by others and bringing different perspectives into a coherent output
• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, data science, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated interest in physical AI across Autodesk industries: Manufacturing, AECO, or Media and Entertainment
• You can read a competitor’s model release or data position and say what it means for their roadmap and their cost structure
• Experience with customer discovery, market validation, go‑to‑market analysis, or business case development
• Experience with Python, SQL, or similar, at the level of getting something working rather than shipping production code
• Familiarity with incumbent market data sources such as PitchBook, CB Insights, Crunchbase, or similar platforms
• Experience with Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytical tools
• MBA or equivalent business experience

Learn More

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $83,000 and $148,830. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we’re building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging

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