Lead Research Analyst - Industrials

The posting, as Qualitate wrote it

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.

THE ROLE

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.

WHAT THE DAY-TO-DAY LOOKS LIKE

• 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, aft

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useful information sits in this industry - plant and operations management, distribution and dealer networks, EPC contractors, procurement organizations, and aftermarket service teams - and you know that the interesting answer is usually a step or two removed from the company being discussed.

• You use AI for both speed and rigor. You understand that AI can be used to both accelerate your initial learning in a space and help you go deeper than you otherwise could have - pressure-testing ideas, automating the analyses you never had time for, and expanding what one analyst can rigorously cover.
• You learn and iterate quickly. You’ll be working alongside accomplished professionals across research, product, and engineering. Pick up what they know and implement; impart what’s incremental onto them.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

• Base salary: $140k–$200k
• Bonus: Variable dependent on achievement of goals at the company level, team level, and individual level
• Equity: Meaningful early-stage grant with upside tied to company growth
• Benefits: Health coverage, flexible PTO, paid holidays
• Location: Full-time, in-person in New York City

WHAT TO EXPECT WORKING AT QUALITATE

• Excellence. You’ll be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar and impact.
• High velocity. Fast paced work environment in terms of growth, decision making, and time to impact.
• High agency. Ownership over how you work, not just what you work on. We hire people we trust to figure it out.
• A builder’s mindset. You'll create the processes, playbooks, and systems that define how this company scales.
• Shared ambition. A small, early team disrupting the multi-billion dollar market research industry with AI.
• Joy. We work hard and genuinely enjoy working with each other. Dedication to our work is matched only by our passion for fostering an enjoyable, collaborative work environment.

Qualitate is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.