Competitive Intelligence Analyst - Data Solutions
Qlik · Boston, MA, USA ·
- Work mode
- Onsite
- Experience
- 5+ years
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What makes us Qlik?
A Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for 16 years in a row, Qlik helps teams get more out of AI with trusted data products, a powerful analytics engine, and AI agents. This helps teams reduce risk and operating costs, while scaling AI responsibly.
Used by 75% of the Fortune 500, Qlik works with the systems organizations already use, maintaining flexibility without lock-in.
The Competitive Intelligence Analyst - Data Solutions Role
We are searching for a Competitive Intelligence Analyst for our Data Solutions stack, to join the Market and Competitive Intelligence team within Qlik’s Global Strategy organization. This team provides actionable intelligence on key competitors in a dynamic and highly competitive market.
This role combines deep technical understanding with strategic market analysis. The successful candidate will analyze competitors, emerging technologies, and market dynamics across the data management and integration landscape, helping Qlik position its platform effectively against key vendors.
As a strategic partner to sales, product, marketing, and executive leadership, this role translates competitive insights into actionable strategy, sales enablement, and product direction. You will play a key role in ensuring Qlik remains well-positioned in rapidly evolving markets shaped by AI, data platforms, and modern data architectures.
What makes this role interesting?
Direct strategic impact:
You will influence product positioning, competitive strategy, and messaging across Qlik’s data management portfolio, including integration, data quality, governance, and automation.
High visibility across the company:
The role partners closely with executive leadership, product management, sales engineering, and marketing teams, giving you visibility and influence across the organization.
Front-row seat to the evolving data and AI ecosystem:
You will continuously track innovations in areas such as data integration, open table formats, lakehouse architectures, data quality, AI platforms, and emerging agentic technologies.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys translating complex technical and market information into clear strategic guidance that helps sales teams win and product teams build the right capabilities.
Here’s how you’ll be making an impact:
You will help Qlik stay ahead in the data management and integration market by delivering clear, actionable competitive insights. Key responsibilities include:
- Researching and analyzing competitors across the data management landscape, including product capabilities, pricing, go-to-market strategy, and sales tactics.
- Monitoring market developments, emerging technologies, and innovation trends shaping the data ecosystem.
- Understanding partner ecosystems and identifying cooperative positioning opportunities with technology partners.
- Producing competitive intelligence and sales enablement materials that equip sales teams and sales engineers to position Qlik effectively against competitors.
- Conducting win/loss analysis to identify competitive strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.
- Creating and delivering presentations and educational content for internal and external audiences on competitive positioning.
- Supporting sales teams in tactical and strategic discussions with prospects and customers.
- Collaborating with product management to highlight competitive gaps and inform product roadmap priorities.
- Contributing to product messaging and marketing campaigns through deep understanding of competitors, customers, and Qlik’s capabilities.
- Leveraging syndicated research and industry analysis to strengthen competitive positioning and market strategy.
Through this work, you will help shape how Qlik competes and wins in the rapidly evolving data and AI platform market.
We’re looking for a teammate with:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, data integration, analytics platforms, or related technology markets
- Strong technical understanding of data management technologies, including databases, data warehouses, lakehouses, and open table formats
- Ability to analyze complex market information and synthesize it into clear strategic insights
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, including strong content development capabilities (PowerPoint, white papers, presentations)
- Experience creating competitive intelligence or market analysis that informs strategy or sales enablement
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively across distributed teams
- Understanding of modern AI tools and how they can be applied to research and competitive analysis
The location for this role is:
US – Remote – East/Central Time Zones
Remote: #LI-Remote
Apply now and help change how the world transforms complex data landscapes into actionable insights and turns complex data challenges into new opportunities!
More about Qlik and who we are:
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What else do we offer?
- Named in Newsweek’s ‘Americas Greatest Workplaces 2025’: .
- Genuine career progression pathways and mentoring programs.
- Culture of innovation, technology, collaboration, and openness.
- Flexible, diverse, and international work environment.
Giving back is a huge part of our culture. Alongside an extra “change the world” day plus another for personal development, we also highly encourage participation in our Corporate Responsibility Employee Programs.
Salary and Benefits: The anticipated base salary range for this role is $145,000 USD MIN – $173,000 USD MAX per year. Final compensation offered by Qlik will be based on factors such as the candidate’s location, job-related skills, education, experience, and other business and organizational needs.
This position is eligible for comprehensive benefits, including - but not limited to - medical, dental, and vision coverage life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, paid parental / maternity leave, participation in a 401(k) program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
Application Window: The application window is 60 days, but applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. The posting will be removed before the application window closes if the position is filled.
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