AI Market Researcher

Key Skills

AI technology, Machine learning techniques

Job Description

The AI market researcher will play a lead role in identifying latest trends in AI technology, products, customers, and competitors and communicating across the business.

This is a hybrid role with our office location in Toronto, Canada. Must be able to go into the office 3 days a week.

Qualifications and Experience

• Must have 3-5 year’s experience in market insights and research in a technology field

Responsibilities

• Developing a comprehensive understanding of shifts in the AI market
• Following Global AI thought leaders (e.g., Twitter, blogs, research)
• Identify where large AI companies are innovating
• Understand where VCs are investing as a leading indicator of AI
• Build relationships with leading research firms to understand their latest thinking on the market (e.g., Gartner, IDC)
• Build an understanding of the work we are doing for leading customers
• Partner with sales and project leads across the business to understand the AI solutions that we are supporting
• Frequent synthesis of market insights
• Create various levels of information synthesis
• Identify and synthesize strategy and performance of Appen’s main customers
• Review investor presentation, research, and other materials to articulate where our customers are investing in AI for the future
• Form relationships with customer contacts to inform our views
• Collate insights on our main competitors
• Identify news/blog posts / job descriptions / etc that provide an indication on the strategy of our competitors
• Capture insights from our customer facing teams on competitor intelligence
• Estimate market share for our top 5 customers

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to synthesize information into the most critical components for the right audience
• Fast to output – can identify the minimum sufficient level of information required for decision making
• Structure communications, both written and verbal presentation
• Self-led - can take a high level direction and translate into action
• Can handle multiple complex tasks in unison
• Strong interest in technology, particularly the use of tech to improve internal operations
• Experience in AI/ML is a plus

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.