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While this role is not open at this time, we are actively identifying and engaging with high-quality Account Director candidates. This posting allows us to get to know potential talent, understand the market, and move quickly when timing aligns. Candidates who apply may be contacted for an exploratory conversation or kept in mind for upcoming opportunities.
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IDC is seeking a Vice President (VP), Physical AI to build and lead IDC’s global research on the fastest-moving frontier in technology: AI that perceives, reasons, and acts in the physical world. Physical AI spans robots of every kind (humanoid, industrial, mobile, and service), vehicles, and drones, together with the models, simulation, edge compute, orchestration, security, and services that make them work. This is one of IDC’s most visible analyst roles, and the VP will be the face and the voice of IDC in this category. This is a research leadership role that faces the market. The VP is expected to be out with clients, robotics and...
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IDC is searching for a Finance Manager on the Strategic FP&A team. This role is the analytical engine behind the finance business partners who support our Go-to-Market (GTM) and Product organizations. The Finance Manager will play a pivotal role in aligning financial strategies with the dynamics of a subscription business model. You will provide financial insights, analysis, modelling, and guidance that help Sales, Marketing, Customer Success and Product leaders make strategic decisions. A...
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IDC is seeking a Group Vice President (GVP), Devices and Consumers to lead IDC's global research across the devices and consumer technology landscape and turn its insight into market impact. This executive owns the research agenda, the quality and visibility of the output, and the performance of the global analyst team, reporting into the Global Leader, Research & Data Intelligence. This is a research leadership role that faces the market. The GVP is not a back-office researcher or a people manager only. He/she is expected to be out with clients, technology vendors, startups, investors, and buyers/leaders, as well as the press, to build the...
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The VP, Digital Growth owns IDC's global digital presence and performance - the website, channels, platforms, and experiences that generate awareness, capture buyer intent, and convert prospects into pipeline at scale.
As AI changes how enterprise buyers discover, research, and evaluate software, this role will ensure IDC is found, trusted, and engaged with across both traditional and...
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IDC is seeking a highly strategic, execution-focused Chief of Staff to support the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). This critical role will partner closely with the CMO to drive alignment across Marketing and its go-to-market partners, move key initiatives forward, and enable operational excellence within the marketing organization.
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Every major technology vendor, cloud provider, systems integrator, and consulting organization is rethinking how it creates value through ecosystems, alliances, and partner-led growth. AI, cloud platforms, industry solutions, marketplaces, and strategic partnerships are reshaping how organizations reach customers, scale innovation, accelerate adoption, and deliver business outcomes.
IDC's Strategic Alliances research is one of the few practices focused...
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This position leads IDC’s research coverage of drug discovery and laboratory technology—a fast-evolving domain spanning AI/ML-enabled discovery platforms, laboratory informatics (LIMS, ELN, SDMS), lab automation and robotics, and the digital lab strategies reshaping how pharmaceutical, biotech, and CROs accelerate the path from target identification to development. As Research Director, you’ll develop and champion a cutting-edge research agenda that influences both technology vendor strategy and buyer decision-making, establish...
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IDC is building out its partnerships with leading AI and technology companies, and demand on the partnerships team is growing quickly. Join IDC's Partnerships team as our first Partner Operations & AI Automation Co-op/Intern. You'll work directly with the SVP of Product & Strategy and split your time with the office of the CEO to design and build the agentic workflows that give a lean partnerships team outsized leverage, turning manual partner qualification, development, pipeline tracking, and intelligence-gathering into automated,...
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IDC is building an enterprise AI capability that moves beyond isolated pilots: a secure, reusable platform for deploying AI agents, connecting them to enterprise data and tools, and proving
measurable business value. We are looking for a high-ownership Senior Manager, AI Program Management to build the AI PM function from the ground up alongside the VP of AI. This person will bring structure, transparency, and execution discipline to a fast-moving portfolio of AI platform, data, governance, and business-facing agent initiatives.
This is not a traditional project-coordination role. You will help decide what gets built,...
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IDC is seeking a Research Director to be part of our enterprise AI infrastructure research focusing on upcoming and shipping products, as well as emerging trends and how they will impact the market. The ideal candidate will possess a combination of qualitative and quantitative skills that would a) engage with industry contacts to gather demand and supply intelligence on the market, and b) enable them to deliver research and insights to IDC’s clients and prospects. The candidate must be self-driven and be able to...
IDC is seeking a Research Director to develop the quantitative models that underpin our AI Economics research. The initial focus will be on modeling the cost and economic value of AI with scope to contribute to a broader range of modeling and forecasting projects as the team’s research develops.
This is a hands-on quantitative research role. You will translate complex questions into mathematical models, implement and test them in code, and develop methods that colleagues can reuse. Most of your time will be spent on model development, empirical analysis and...
Role overview
IDC is seeking a Vice President, Research, Planning & Operations t to join its AI Economics research team. The role will help enterprise leaders prioritize investments in artificial intelligence (AI), understand the full cost of deployment and operation, and measure business value across a portfolio of business processes and use cases.
We are...
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NEXUS runs multiple workstreams in parallel on an aggressive timeline. Without a dedicated execution owner who can operate independently, dependencies slip and the Program Office leads get pulled into day-to-day coordination instead of vision, governance, and strategic execution at the leadership level. This role is what lets the program move at the pace leadership expects.
The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating execution across these workstreams, ensuring that plans...
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NEXUS runs multiple workstreams in parallel on an aggressive timeline. Without a dedicated execution owner who can operate independently, dependencies slip and the Program Office leads get pulled into day-to-day coordination instead of vision, governance, and strategic execution at the leadership level. This role is what lets the program move at the pace leadership expects.
The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating execution...
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AI, Enterprise Optimization & Automation is building the AI layer of IDC's future. We're transforming IDC from a document-centric research organization to an AI-native, component-based one. The
research chain is Plan, Collect, Analyze, Author, Publish, Advise. Right now, analysts own every step. We're automating the parts where AI earns its place, letting analysts apply judgment where it
matters most.
If you thrive at the intersection of engineering, product, problem-solving, and real business...
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IDC is looking for a Senior Research Analyst to support IDC’s storage research. As part of the Data and Storage Infrastructure research subdomain, the analyst will contribute to IDC’s research on storage systems, server-based storage, software-defined storage, and industry-level trends, including emerging AI storage architectures. The analyst will support senior analysts in advancing conversations with vendors, providers, regulatory bodies, end users, and other IDC analysts to ensure the storage narrative is well-rounded, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
