Associate, AI Research

# Associate, AI Research Remote
· Full-time

Location Remote Type Full -time

All openings AI Research Associate conducts research across markets, technologies, competitors, and emerging opportunities to support venture validation and decision-making. Working alongside Eider Group partners and founders, the role combines AI-enabled research, analysis, and synthesis to turn complex information into actionable insights.## About Eider Group Eider Group is a venture studio that builds and backs early-stage technology companies from idea through scale.

We work alongside founders to validate markets, shape products, build technical foundations, launch into market, and create the operating and growth systems required to build durable businesses. Our venture studio model brings together product, technology, go-to-market, operating expertise, and targeted capital in one connected company-building approach.

Our framework spans six stages:
** Validate, Design, Build, Launch, Grow, and Fund & Scale.
** We focus on markets where deep technology, complex operations, and enterprise growth matter, including AI-native and AI-enabled platforms, health tech, fintech, B2B and vertical SaaS, Mar Tech and Rev Tech, and infrastructure and data platforms.
** From idea to scale.**##

The Role The
** AI Research Associate
** helps Eider Group investigate markets, technologies, customers, competitors, and emerging opportunities across prospective and active ventures.

This is a research and intelligence role within the venture studio. You will use AI-enabled research methods alongside primary and secondary research to turn fragmented information into clear, useful analysis that helps founders and Eider Group partners make better decisions.

Your work may begin with a simple question:
Is this problem worth solving? From there, you may investigate market size, customer behavior, competitors, technology shifts, business models, pricing, regulatory considerations, or the assumptions underlying a prospective venture.

The role extends beyond initial validation. You will support research throughout the venture lifecycle, helping teams evaluate strategic decisions, understand changing markets, prepare for launch, refine go-to-market approaches, and develop the evidence needed for growth and capital decisions.## What You'll Do
* Conduct market, customer, competitive, technology, and industry research for prospective and active ventures.
* Use AI-enabled research tools and workflows to accelerate discovery, analysis, synthesis, and ongoing intelligence gathering.
* Support early venture validation by investigating market demand, customer problems, competitive dynamics, business models, and commercial viability.
* Develop market maps, competitive landscapes, company profiles, technology landscapes, and category analyses.
* Research emerging technologies, business models, market shifts, and regulatory developments relevant to Eider Group's focus markets.
* Conduct market sizing and help develop evidence-based estimates of addressable opportunities.
* Analyze competitors across product, positioning, pricing, distribution, funding, partnerships, customers, and market strategy.
* Support customer discovery by researching target segments, buyer dynamics, industry workflows, pain points, and existing alternatives.
* Research pricing models, packaging strategies, unit economics, and monetization approaches.
* Investigate technical platforms, infrastructure, AI capabilities, APIs, vendors, and emerging technologies when evaluating product or architectural decisions.
* Help evaluate prospective ventures through structured research and diligence.
* Prepare concise research briefs, opportunity analyses, market reports, and decision-support materials for Eider Group partners and founders.
* Distill large volumes of information into clear findings, implications, risks, unanswered questions, and recommended areas for further investigation.
* Develop and maintain research repositories, source libraries, market intelligence, and reusable knowledge across Eider Group.
* Track meaningful developments within Eider Group's focus markets and identify changes that may create new venture opportunities or affect existing companies.
* Support go-to-market research, including customer segmentation, channel analysis, positioning, competitive messaging, and market-entry considerations.
* Support fundraising and capital strategy with market evidence, comparable-company research, investor landscape analysis, and…