Vice President Research, AI Strategy and Planning

Overview: About the Role & Team

IDC is seeking a Research Vice President to join our established worldwide artificial intelligence, data and automation (AD&A) research domain to focus on using our research on the modeling of AI business value and cost to advise clients. The candidate must have demonstrable experience in devising and implementing transformation strategies. Experience with AI platforms is preferred. The candidate will also collaborate with other analysts covering adjacent technologies, including other forms of AI and Automation technologies. Research will include understanding functional and industry use cases, as well as the key determinants of AI value realization.

What You’ll Do

• Use the IDC AI Economic Model to assist clients in selecting, prioritizing, and forecasting the value of AI use case portfolios.
• Collaborate with the analyst community to build the model and to help them use the models in their own research.
• Work with AI leadership team and engineering to create an AI Economics interactive tool that are clients can use to manage their initiatives.
• Partner with our sourcing advisory team to incorporate ongoing price benchmarking into the models.
• Contribute to the production of both syndicated and custom research.

What You Bring

* Five to ten years experience required. * Bachelor’s degree is required; Master’s degree preferred. * Practitioner experience working in a financial analysis and/or business transformation capacity implementing AI projects. * First-hand experience building economic impact and/or financial models related to technology investment. * Strong knowledge of the overall AI technology sector is preferred, along with the ability to analyze trends and provide actionable guidance to technology providers and buyers. Direct experience in this area is ideal. * Up-to-date knowledge of innovations in large language models and the AI industry more broadly. * Knowledge of AI deployment models and the a...