Lead Research Analyst - Industrials

About Qualitate

Qualitate is building the AI-native primary intelligence platform for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers. We automate the entire primary research workflow, from study design and expert recruitment through AI-moderated interviews and insight synthesis - replacing weeks of manual research with hours of high-signal output.

Expert research is a broken industry dominated by legacy incumbents with expensive, manual, and slow services. Investment and corporate strategy teams spend hundreds of hours coordinating intermediaries, scheduling expert calls, and synthesizing insights across fragmented providers. The process takes weeks to produce short-lived intelligence.

Qualitate transforms this workflow by autonomously conducting expert discussions at scale using AI. Qualitate’s AI Moderator interviews thousands of experts simultaneously each month, capturing forward-looking purchasing plans, competitive displacement, and real-time ROI signals. The platform turns these interviews into quantified, time-series outputs tracking over 10,000 public and private companies, queryable instantly in natural language. Our customers include some of the world’s largest enterprises, hedge funds, PE firms, credit investors, and venture capital firms.

We're looking for a Lead Research Analyst to own Qualitate's Industrials coverage. This is a new launch; you'll be the first domain expert in the seat, and you'll define what industrials research looks like at Qualitate from day one.

Industrials is one of the most difficult sectors to read in real time. The signal doesn't sit in filings or sell-side models - it sits with the plant managers, distributors, procurement leads, and channel partners who see order books, lead times, pricing, and capex intent months before any of it shows up in company earnings prints. Investors and operators run their processes through those conversations.

Qualitate has already solved this in several other industries, and demand for industrials coverage has been loud enough that we're now running the same playbook here.

Reporting to the Director of Research, you'll shape the industrials research roadmap, decide what we cover and when, and publish the insights that establish this coverage in the market. You'll be in front of investors and corporate teams, and you'll be accountable for the outcomes: the quality of the research, its predictive accuracy, and the reputation of Qualitate's industrials franchise.

• Leverage the company’s proprietary datasets to uncover insightful company and market trends across advanced manufacturing, automotive, construction and building products, HVAC and mechanical services, and specialty chemicals for investment funds and corporate clients.
• Develop forward-looking analyses and uncover industry dynamics, key growth drivers, and demand shifts across themes including industrial capex cycles, factory automation and reshoring, aftermarket and service attach rates, input cost pass-through, and vehicle platform transitions.
• Contribute thought leadership by creating high-impact content for our newsletter and client communications.
• Clearly and effectively communicate actionable insights to clients and prospects through calls, webinars, and events.
• Contribute domain expertise and research judgement to hone the fidelity of our first-to-market research methodology; partner with product and engineering teams on design to continue the creation of our best-in-class AI-native research platform.
• Stay ahead of emerging trends, technologies, and innovators shaping the future of industrial production - from connected equipment and predictive maintenance to environmental health and safety mandates, agriculture technology, and more.

• 3+ years professional experience in data-driven research creation. Equity research, financial analysis, market research, and/or consulting roles.
• You understand the fundamental research workflow. How funds source ideas and build conviction through data and primary research. You can articulate how Qualitate fits into that process in the terms buyers actually care about. You know…