About Demandbase: 

Demandbase is the Smarter GTM™ company for B2B brands. We help marketing and sales teams overcome the disruptive data and technology fragmentation that inhibits insight and forces them to spam their prospects. We do this by injecting Account Intelligence into every step of the buyer journey, wherever our clients interact with customers, and by helping them orchestrate every action across systems and channels - through advertising, account-based experience, and sales motions. The result? You spot opportunities earlier, engage with them more intelligently, and close deals faster. 

As a company, we’re as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class technology. We invest heavily in people, our culture, and the community around us. We have offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Seattle, and teams in the UK and India, and allow employees to work remotely. We have also been continuously recognized as one of the best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We're committed to attracting, developing, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce. By ensuring that every Demandbase employee is able to bring a diversity of talents to work, we're increasingly capable of living out our mission to transform how B2B goes to market. We encourage people from historically underrepresented backgrounds and all walks of life to apply. Come grow with us at Demandbase!

What you'll do:

• Understand the vision/roadmap for “technology” data product, lead discovery process to identify the business requirements and the expected outcomes
• Own, Drive & Build the next generation “technology” knowledge base, taxonomies, company to tech-used mappings, technology categorizations  
• Provide guidance to product and engineering teams for high-level data research, benchmarking, analysis and data modeling 
• Study the market to map appropriate technology product vendors, partners, consumers, competitors and validate technology platforms/tools through its evolution
• Take complete ownership of "technographics" knowledge creation, data strategies, integrations, cross team dependencies, to understand the nuances of data features and the impact of data quality on user experience.
• Manage team of 4-8 junior and senior research analysts. Drive the team to make the best decisions possible based on information available during primary and secondary research
• As a lead, strive to create a high performing team, manage team performance, deliverables and completion of quarterly OKRs or goals. 
• Remove data research impediments raised by the team and ensure data quality is built into everything the team does as defined by the definition of done 
• Work closely with product management, data engineering and professional services teams to understand customer challenges, product enhancements
• Building data products at scale has unique challenges and the features take time to mature. Envision how to measure success of data product, design methodology to evaluate performance and improve data quality 

What we're looking for:

• Active listener who can grow ideas
• Ability to learn new technologies, software, and concepts quickly
• Confident and articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with others in small, high-performance teams

Education:

• BE /  MCA  degree preferred in Computer Science / Information Technology or equivalent discipline 
• MBA with only relevant technology research experience

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience (2 years leading the team) 
• Proven experience leading team of market research, competitor analysis
• Strong experience in building primary databases, data collection following best practices in primary/secondary research
• Broad knowledge of technology landscape, adoption, emerging trends for companies and industry verticals  
• Well versed with emerging technologies, paradigms in AI, Cloud, Digital, Health, Fintech, Enterprise IT, Information Security and Open Source
• Strong experience in business analysis, requirements gathering and planning 
• Knowledge of best practices :  Data aggregation, ETL , Data modeling  
• Working knowledge in Data Analytics, Reporting and  SQL
• As an SME, be well versed with US/Global marketplace, market intelligence, technology and products space