Research Analyst, Analytics (United States)

Research Analyst, Analytics

Enterprise Technology Research (ETR)

Remote (US) | Full-time | Analytics

About ETR

Enterprise Technology Research (ETR), a subsidiary of the Futurum Group, is an independent research firm built on primary data. We draw on a network of 9,000+ technology decision-makers, controlling more than $2 trillion in annual IT spend, to track where technology budgets are heading. More than 100 of the world’s largest hedge funds and asset managers use our proprietary data and research to shape their investment decisions.

ETR’s flagship Technology Spending Intentions Survey (TSIS) is one of the longest-running and broadest data series in the industry, with uninterrupted coverage since 2010 spanning 330+ vendors across more than 20 technology sectors. We complement it with higher-frequency research: the AI Product Series, ETR Edge, Macro Views, and drill-down surveys on the topics investors are debating right now.

ETR has the pace of an early-stage company and client relationships that go back more than a decade. We are investing in our research capabilities: growing the team, deepening our product suite, and expanding coverage into new layers of the technology stack.

About the Role

ETR is adding a Research Analyst to our Analytics team, the group that designs our surveys and turns the resulting data into research that the world’s most sophisticated investors trade on. Reporting directly to the head of our Analytics team, this is a hybrid analyst role: part data analyst, part research analyst, shaped day to day by what our clients need most.

Day to day, this job lives inside the financial-services world. You will own survey research on enterprise technology markets, spanning software, hardware, cloud, infrastructure, IT services, and semiconductors, and you will write the narrative research that financial analysts at hedge funds and asset managers use to make investment decisions. Understanding how an investor reads a research note, what a portfolio manager actually needs answered, and how markets and technology news move together is central to doing this job well. Your work is written for, and shaped by, an investor audience.

This role suits someone with 3+ years of experience in the financial-services or investment-research world — equity research, wealth management, investment banking, or a financial-data or research-vendor role covering technology names — who is comfortable using code and AI tooling to move faster. It is a remote-friendly position open to candidates anywhere in the US.

What You Will Do

• Stay on top of client interest and market news. Maintain a running pulse on what clients are asking for, relayed through our client-facing teams, and on what’s moving in the market and where investor attention is heading — and use both to actively shape survey design and research prioritization.

• Design surveys end to end. Take a research objective, conduct desk research to get up to speed on the topic and domain, and translate it into a well-constructed questionnaire, with clear, unbiased questions and a logical structure that yields data worth analyzing.

• Write for an investor audience. Combine survey results with outside context — market news, earnings and financial data, and vendor developments — to author narrative research reports that explain what is happening and why it matters to a portfolio manager or analyst making an investment decision, not just “X% of respondents said Y.”

• Build with modern tooling. Use Python, SQL, and LLM-based workflows for data processing, research synthesis, and drafting, and help the team keep improving how this work gets done.

What We Are Looking For

• Financial markets / investor-facing experience. You have worked somewhere your output was consumed by, or served, investors — sell-side or buy-side research, wealth management, investment banking, portfolio or trading work, or a financial-data or research-vendor role. You understand how professional investors read research and what makes it useful to them. This matters more than anything else.

• Technology-sector knowledge, as a research subject. You can get smart fast on enterprise software, hardware, cloud, infrastructure, IT services, or semiconductors, and you understand these markets well enough to analyze and write about them for an external, investor-facing audience — not just to have used the tools internally.

• Survey design skill. You know how to write a good question, how to avoid biasing a respondent, and how to structure a questionnaire so it flows logically and produces clean, analyzable data.

• 3+ years of experience in equity research, market or industry research, financial analysis, consulting, or a similar analytical role.

• Strong analytical writing: you can move from a dataset to a clear, well-structured narrative that a professional investor finds useful.

• Programming ability. Working proficiency in Python and SQL, and comfort building and using LLM workflows for research synthesis, drafting, and data processing.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, a STEM field, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

What We Offer

• A competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, and comprehensive benefits.

• Real ownership early: on a team our size, the surveys you design and the research you write are in front of clients and leadership immediately.

• Direct mentorship from the Analytics, Research, and Data teams: you work together day to day, and your development and advancement are part of the role’s design.

• Your work in the hands of some of the world’s most sophisticated investors, informed by the technology leaders shaping enterprise IT.

• A remote-friendly, flexible working environment with a culture that values candor, curiosity, and collegiality over facetime and politics.

ETR is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.