Research Lead for Market Intelligence at Acronis

**Acronis is dedicated not just to cyber protection but to the general protection of its potential and current employees, interviews are being held virtually during the current global COVID-19 situation.**

Acronis is a world leader in cyber protection—empowering people by providing them with cutting-edge technology that enables them to monitor, control, and protect the data that their businesses and lives depend on. We are in an exciting phase of rapid-growth and expansion and looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Researcher who is ready to join us in creating a #CyberFit future and protecting the digital world

We are seeking for a full-time Research Lead for our newly established Acronis corporate research center. This research lead role acts as the group lead for a dedicated research group at the research center and shape cutting-edge applied research, helping Acronis to solve the cyber protection challenges of the future. The research lead manages a team of 2-10 researchers consisting of PhD students, scientific researchers, developers and interns. Each team has a dedicated field of research. Own research should be conducted as well, or contributed to some of the team's research projects.

The vision of the Acronis research center is to conduct applied research in the fields of safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) and develop autonomous solutions and building blocks with the help of machine intelligence and analytics.

The position is responsible for planning and executing market intelligence research project
- managing a small team of analysts and data scientists, and working on collecting information about partners, customers and prospects that will be used by product management, marketing, sales and finance for strategic planning and day-to-day operations.

The Research Lead should have very strong technology skills, experience of managing teams of highly skilled professionals and presentation of the results of the research to senior management.

**WHAT YOU'LL DO**
- Define research scope and adjust research plans based on the information collected and business priorities
- Design automated tools for data collection, clean-up and analysis
- Use machine learning for automation of data validation and enrichment
- Work with stakeholders to identify their needs for market intelligence
- Develop actionable reports for product management, marketing, sales and finance
- Manage a team of data scientists and analysts
- Generate new ideas to improve market intelligence, identify partner and customer segments, discover new data sources and new unusual types of data that could be used to classify partners and customers and predict their behavior
- Participate in strategic business initiatives project and contribute data and market knowledge
- Productize market knowledge and build a system that automatically guides product management, marketing, sales and technical support to increase efficiency of the business functions

**WHAT YOU BRING (EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS)**
- University degree and proven experience in IT industry
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning, data science and analytics
- Hands-on experience with data collection, clean-up, and analysis
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong project management skills
- Team management skills
- Solid communications and cross-functional management skills
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills in English

**WHO WE ARE**

Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis is truly a global organization with more than 1,900 employees in 33 locations in 18 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million consumers and 500,000 businesses, including 100% of the Fortune 1000 companies. Acronis products are available through 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries in more than 30 languages. Acronis is in an exciting phase of growth and expansion, recently receiving a $250 million investment from CVC Capital Partners, bringing the total valuation to more than $2.5 billion.#LI-SN1