Turn insights into impact. Shape the future of tech. Amplify the CB Insights voice.
In a world of AI-generated noise, decision-makers need insights they can trust. At CB Insights, you’ll help the world’s most influential companies make smarter bets on what’s next. Through predictive, data-driven research on emerging technologies and high-momentum companies, your work will shape product bets, investment decisions, and strategic direction for the companies shaping the future.
The Role You’ll Play
You’ll work with a team of analysts dedicated to making CB Insights the go-to intelligence layer for decision-makers. Your work will expand our reach by translating data into compelling stories that help business leaders anticipate change, seize opportunities, and act quickly.
You’ll produce insights on emerging tech trends that are uniquely CB Insights, powered by our proprietary data and data science, and distribute them across multiple channels. As part of this role, you will also learn how to build compelling visualizations that tell a story and engage with the tech ecosystem.
About The Research Team
Working as a member of the Research team is like having a front-row seat to the future. There is no team quite like ours anywhere, inside or outside of tech. It's a unique opportunity to both work at a tech company and spend your day generating research on the technologies, business models, companies, and market trends of tomorrow across the hottest industries.
You will be surrounded by some of the most curious and driven people you will ever meet, and will be held up to the highest standards every day. Our analysts come from backgrounds as diverse as equity research, journalism, consulting, investment banking, VC, and more. As you grow, you will have the opportunity to work across all types of research, collaborate on cross-team projects, and learn all about new technology's impact on key markets and industries.
What You’ll Do
- Publish signature quarterly reports that translate platform data into bold, forward-looking insights on emerging tech and market dynamics
- Develop new research formats that showcase the power of CB Insights’ predictive Business Graph data and data science
- Contribute to our high-impact newsletter (250K+ subscribers), spotlighting what matters now
- Collaborate with our design team to turn complex data into crisp, engaging visualizations
- Contribute to webinars, social campaigns, and client-facing assets that highlight our proprietary data and research
What You Bring To The Table
- 2+ years of experience in writing, editing, or digital publishing
- Sharp attention to detail and data accuracy
- Strong comfort with numbers and a love for getting it right
- Passion for blending storytelling, product thinking, and data science
- Interest in startups, VC, or emerging tech (a big plus)
- Curious about generative AI and its role in content, research, or analysis
- Strong communicator with solid project management chops
- Thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments
- Flexible, proactive, and ready to jump into anything that’s needed
- Strong opinions about the Oxford comma
- BA/BS required
- Writing sample submission required with application.
Please note this is a US-based role.
In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for a bonus opportunity.
A little bit about our pay practices: Typically, we will hire at our Hiring Target, but actual starting pay may be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, market rate, the qualified pool of candidates, internal compensation, candidate experience, and budgetary constraints.
Compensation
$73,000 - $93,000 USD
What We're All About
We're on a mission to advance the technology economy -- one driven by innovation, markets, and entrepreneurship. We believe a thriving technology economy powers a thriving society. By synthesizing, analyzing and visualizing millions of data points, we deliver a 360° view of the technology economy – powering the insights that buyers, sellers, investors, and advisors need.
As a CBIer, you can expect to leverage generative AI to drive creativity, efficiency, and strategic decision-making. Our culture is infused with the spirit of exploration and experimentation – and AI is a catalyst for new ideas and breakthrough solutions.
CB Insights Leadership Principles
At CB Insights, everyone is expected to be a leader. These leadership principles are like an operating system for our culture. Use the principles as a practical guide to making decisions.
We are what we repeatedly do. By living the principles outlined below, we will build an outstanding company and do insanely great work.
- Solve customer problems. It’s our highest calling. Designing a product? Start from the customer problem it solves. Updating our sales process? Flip it around, and simplify the customer buying process.
- Think BIG! Start small. Great changes start with a first step. Find it. Take it. Build a system around what works. This is the secret to bringing a vision to life.
- Go and see with your own eyes. Meet the customer, use the product, talk to the field. Great systems aren’t built from afar.
- Priorities: Choose one. Leaders give the gift of clarity. They find the most important thing and do it. Max power. Top speed.
- Danger zones:
- Bureaucracy. May the best ideas and execution win.
- Complexity. Leaders use frameworks and systems to simplify.
- No commitment. Leaders don’t compromise just to get along. Debate. Disagree. But once a decision is made, commit.
- Leaving what’s important unsaid or undone. No “circling back.”
- Data informs. Insight transforms. Pull the thread. Ask why. Leaders are curious. They use what they learn to create clarity.
- Insist on excellence. Leaders set high standards and overcome obstacles. They do the kind of work they’re excited to share with the world.
- Live off the land. Leaders creatively use resources already available to them – especially AI – to execute and automate their work.
- Good judgment. Leaders have it. Where it comes from: insight, listening, first-hand experience. How to apply it: carefully on big, hard to reverse decisions. Swiftly on limited, easy to reverse ones.
- Help others. Leaders know we’re building this together.
You’ll want to work here if
- You are excited about how AI is transforming tech
- You are hungry for feedback and the chance to grow
- Your instinct is to work smarter not harder
- You love developing as a SME with a POV
- You are motivated by challenges and big ideas
- You believe in radical personal accountability
You Don’t Want To Work Here If
- You are a tech pessimist
- Radical Candor is not your style
- You like to build big processes
- You stay @ the 30,000 foot view instead of digging into the details
- You prefer to operate in your comfort zone
- You expect to be judged by outputs instead of outcomes
What We Offer
- Award-winning culture: recognized by Inc. and Built-in for leadership, career opportunity, and engagement
- Industry Insight: over 500k+ people follow our tech newsletter: sign up here
- Holistic compensation: cash, rich healthcare insurance benefits including PPO, HSA, and FSA options, multiple mental health resources, pet insurance, 401k match, annual education stipend, and generous paid time off.
About Our Pay Practices
We believe in recognizing and rewarding excellence. Our commitment to fairness means that compensation decisions consider factors like qualification, location, internal equity, and market data.
Our compensation philosophy goes beyond base salary. To align with your dedication and success, we offer total compensation as innovative as the work we do - this includes variable cash potential, 401k matching, flexible healthcare options plus mental health resources, professional development and education stipends, great PTO, and more.
Equal Opportunity Employer: At CB Insights we know that innovation comes from collaboration, belonging, and diverse perspectives. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - all applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
