Remote Innovation Researcher: Emerging Tech Scout

Trace3; Irvine (CA); Hybrid; USD 67,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision plans

401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer 8

Competitive Compensation

Training and development programs

Offices with snacks and beverages

Collaborative and cool culture

Work-life balance and generous PTO

Job summary

Trace3 is seeking a Research Analyst to scout emerging technologies and provide light advisory support to clients. Working under the Director of Innovation, you will help identify trends across cloud, data, security, and development domains, coordinating with industry partners, VCs, startups, and Trace3 teams.

Ideal candidates have a bachelor’s degree and at least one year of IT experience, strong research skills, and proficiency with PowerPoint and Excel.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or related degree.
• Minimum of one year of related IT experience.
• Excellent secondary research skills.
• Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of MS Office tools (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• Logical reasoning and data interpretation (Ven diagrams, Set/sub-set/super set/weighted average, standard deviations, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to work on a distributed technical team in a dynamic environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work with in a remote setting (work from home, away from an office).
• Possess interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
• Problem solving skills and agility.
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent technical documentation and artifact creation skills.
• Moderate travel by air or car will be required (up to 20%)

Responsibilities

• Conduct secondary research to share talent specific quantitative and qualitative data points that are backed by multiple evidence.
• Apply deductive and inductive reasoning to test accuracy of data
• Collate data and prepare reports PowerPoint and the like with minimal inputs from the reporting manager.
• Contribute ideas or mini-innovations to enhance research and quality process
• Interpret data to bring out meaningful insights by correlating different data points.
• Supports the quality check process in the respective team
• Produce evaluations of emerging trends, markets, use cases, solutions and companies within the Security discipline
• Conduct technical reviews with targeted companies and evaluate the findings
• Participate in research collaboration and client briefings with venture capital firms
• Assist the Sales teams to catalyst innovation in our customer community
• Assist in education sessions to introduce emerging technologies to the Trace3 teams
• May perform other duties as assigned by supervisor

Skills

Secondary research

Data interpretation

Communication skills

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Job description

Trace3 is seeking a Research Analyst to scout emerging technologies and provide light advisory support to clients. Working under the Director of Innovation, you will help identify trends across cloud, data, security, and development domains, coordinating with industry partners, VCs, startups, and Trace3 teams.

Ideal candidates have a bachelor’s degree and at least one year of IT experience, strong research skills, and proficiency with PowerPoint and Excel.