Strategic Market & Competitive Intelligence Analyst

Autodesk; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk Research is seeking an experienced competitive intelligence professional to help shape strategic insights across Manufacturing, AECO, and Media & Entertainment. This role blends market analysis, synthesis of qualitative and quantitative data, and clear executive briefings.

You will lead projects, manage timelines, and partner with cross-functional teams, applying AI tools to accelerate research while ensuring rigorous validation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in competitive intelligence, market research, business intelligence, strategy, or a related analytical field.
• Strong analytical judgment and the ability to turn incomplete or fragmented information into a defensible point of view.
• Experience with market analysis, competitive research, market sizing, customer or expert research, or commercial opportunity assessment.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead projects or significant workstreams involving multiple stakeholders and deadlines.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively on analytical work, including contributing to projects led by others and bringing together different perspectives into a coherent output.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market and competitive analysis across Autodesk's industries, tracking signals such as AI developments, competitors, startups, funding, talent movement, product releases, partnerships, research, and regulatory changes.
• Distinguish meaningful change from noise and communicate clearly when the evidence does not support a new conclusion.
• Partner with Research teams to define target markets, map competitive landscapes, size opportunities, identify gaps, and test market and commercial assumptions.
• 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.
• Synthesize qualitative and quantitative information into clear points of view, challenging assumptions, reconciling conflicting perspectives, and connecting findings to broader implications for Autodesk.
• 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.
• Own the operating discipline for the team's intelligence work, managing priorities, timelines, research systems, source quality, and follow-through while improving processes that make the team more efficient and scalable.
• Use AI tools to accelerate research, analysis, and content development while applying judgment about when human verification, primary research, or subject matter expertise is required

Skills

Competitive intelligence

Market analysis

Strategic thinking

Project leadership

Communication

Writing & presentations

Education

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

Tools

Airtable

PitchBook

CB Insights

Crunchbase

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Autodesk Research is seeking an experienced competitive intelligence professional to help shape strategic insights across Manufacturing, AECO, and Media & Entertainment. This role blends market analysis, synthesis of qualitative and quantitative data, and clear executive briefings.

You will lead projects, manage timelines, and partner with cross-functional teams, applying AI tools to accelerate research while ensuring rigorous validation.