At EY, you'll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we're counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.
Job Description: Technology Research Analyst (AINative Research & Intelligence)
Experience Level: 710 years
About The Role
The Technology Research Analyst will be part of NITRO, EY's Research & Experimentation Lab within Client Technology. This role is designed for a
nextgeneration, AInative researcher who blends strong technology domain expertise with the ability to leverage
AI, LLMs, agentic tools, and automated insight systems across the entire research lifecycle.
The analyst will provide highquality, timely, and actionable insights that support product strategy, emerging tech evaluation, competitive intelligence, and innovation initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- AIAugmented Trend & Market Intelligence
- Continuously scan global technology ecosystems using AIpowered research tools and autonomous agents to identify emerging technologies, trends, startups, and shifts impacting EY clients and solutions.
- Maintain alwayson, dynamic intelligence dashboards, replacing static PPTbased outputs.
- AIDriven Research & Insight Synthesis
- Use LLMs, RAG systems, and vector search to rapidly synthesize thirdparty research (Gartner, Forrester, IDC, etc) into highquality insights.
- Translate external thought leadership into internal strategic implications.
- Thought Leadership & Content Development
- Produce highquality thought leadership, research briefs, and technology POVs using a humanintheloop AI writing workflow.
- Support the development of futurefocused content on AI, agentic systems, emerging domains, and enterprise tech.
- Competitive & Market Analysis (Automated + AnalystLed)
- Deploy agentic research workflows to collect competitive intelligence, product updates, pricing insights, and ecosystem shifts.
- Generate automated feature comparisons, vendor assessments, and industry benchmarking.
- Tech Evaluation & Strategic Advisory
- Collaborate with Product & Innovation teams to identify potential domains for prototyping and experimentation.
- Use AI tools to accelerate feasibility assessments, solution comparisons, and buildvsbuy evaluations.
- Research Automation & Knowledge Management
- Convert historical research into AIready knowledge assets through tagging, ingestion, and structuring workflows.
- Lead adoption of AI research assistants and agentdriven research processes for speed, accuracy, and scale.
Required Skills & Capabilities
- AI Fluency (Mandatory)
- Handson experience using LLMs, copilots, RAG systems, agentic research tools, or automated intelligence platforms.
- Ability to design and orchestrate AI workflows for data gathering, synthesis, analysis, and storytelling.
- Understanding of prompt engineering, responsible AI use, and quality control of AIgenerated insights.
- Research & Analytical Expertise
- Proven experience in market and technology research, competitive intelligence, business research, or emerging tech analysis.
- Strong grasp of strategic frameworks (SWOT, PEST, Porter's Five Forces, benchmarking).
- Ability to combine AIgenerated outputs with human analytical judgment.
- Technical & Data Skills
- Understanding of emerging technologies, software, cloud, and digital platforms.
- Experience with dashboards and visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
- Comfort with large data sets, Excel (including pivots/automation), and structured analysis.
- Communication & Collaboration
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate insights clearly to leadership and diverse stakeholders.
- Ability to collaborate across geographies, influence without authority, and work effectively in crossfunctional environments.
Qualifications
- MBA + BTech preferred; Bachelor's degree required.
- Certifications in AI/ML, data analytics, or emerging tech research are highly preferred.
Ideal Candidate Profile
You are a
researcher transformed by AIcurious, fastlearning, analytically sharp, and able to combine human insight with machineaugmented intelligence. You thrive in environments where research must be
faster, smarter, dynamic, and continuously adaptive.
EY | Building a better working world
EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.
Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.
Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.
