Strategic Intelligence & AI Insights Lead

RTI International is an independent, scientific research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Our vision is to address the world's most critical problems with technical and science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future. Clients rely on us to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach-one that integrates expertise across social, statistical, data, and laboratory sciences, engineering, and other technical disciplines to solve the world's most challenging problems.

We believe in the promise of science and technical solutions, and we push ourselves every day to deliver on that promise for the good of people, communities, and businesses in the US and around the world. If you are looking for the opportunity to make a real difference, RTI is the place for you.

The Office of Corporate Strategy (OCS) serves as RTI International's central hub for enterprise-level strategic planning, portfolio alignment, and long-term value creation.OCS partners closely with executive leadership to define and advance RTI's strategic priorities, assess growth opportunities, guide capital and capability investments, and ensure alignment between the Institute's mission, operating model, and external market realities. By integrating market insight, financial analysis, and organizational context, the Office of Corporate Strategy helps translate strategy into action-supporting informed decision-making across RTI's scientific, technical, and commercial portfolios.

We are currently seeking a Strategic Intelligence & AI Insights Lead to help advance RTI International's institute-level strategy by leading and operating a strategic intelligence function, combining rigorous human critical thinking with advanced AI systems to produce prioritized, actionable market and competitive intelligence for RTI's growth strategy.

Working within OCS, this role integrates market intelligence, competitive analysis, and AI-enabled insight generation to support executive decision-making and long-term growth planning. The position exercises disciplined judgment to go beyond what AI systems surface, filtering outputs into quality insights that are truly relevant to RTI's markets and opportunities.

You will lead a market-sensing function, working across business units and subject-matter experts to surface the intelligence and strategic implications that stakeholders will act upon.

This position sits at the intersection of strategy, technology, and market intelligence, helping transform how RTI gathers, analyzes, and applies external insight to shape institutional strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

Competitive Intelligence & Market Insights across Federal & Commercial Sectors

• Continuously track the activities, positioning, wins, and strategic moves of RTI's top competitors, maintaining current profiles for each and translating findings into clear implications for RTI's growth strategy.
• Develop and deliver regular market-sensing briefings (monthly at minimum, more frequently when market conditions warrant) synthesizing the most important and actionable market and competitive developments for RTI's leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Design, build, and maintain self-serve intelligence dashboards that enable RTI teams to independently access current competitor, market, and funding data - reducing dependence on ad hoc requests and enabling faster organizational decision-making.
• Apply strategic frameworks and systems thinking to understand evolving market dynamic and our organization's positioning
• Distinguish signal from noise in AI-generated outputs, ensuring only prioritized, evidence-based insights are surfaced to stakeholders.

AI-Enabled Intelligence Systems

• Design and deploy AI agents and automated monitoring pipelines that continuously ingest and analyze data from diverse sources including federal databases (e.g., GovWin, USASpending, SAM.gov), market intelligence platforms, scientific publications, and competitor announcements.
• Demonstrate mastery of prompt engineering and Claude Code to build and optimize AI-powered research workflows, ensuring consistent, high-quality intelligence outputs.
• Train business unit stakeholders and team members on AI-enabled tools and workflows to broaden organizational intelligence capacity.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and identify opportunities to enhance RTI's intelligence and strategic decision-support capabilities.

Market Sensing, Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence

• Lead RTI's market-sensing function, collaborating with business units, business development teams, and subject-matter experts to identify, prioritize, and communicate the market and competitive intelligence most relevant to their work and to RTI's growth in federal and commercial markets.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Office of Corporate Strategy and executive leadership; translate AI-generated outputs into clear, human-centered strategic narratives that inform investment decisions.
• Proactively clarify the scope and intended use of intelligence tasks - from the outset and at key interim milestones - to ensure outputs remain relevant and actionable for the teams that will act on them.

Intelligence Infrastructure & Continuous Improvement

• Design and maintain RTI's strategic intelligence infrastructure, including data sources, analysis workflows, and insight products.
• Develop dashboards, reporting frameworks, and intelligence briefs that support leadership decision-making.
• Continuously improve the rigor, efficiency, and impact of RTI's intelligence processes.
• Establish best practices for responsible use of AI within strategic analysis workflows.

• Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience in strategy, market/competitive intelligence, consulting, or policy analysis.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools and large language models for research and analysis, including mastery-level prompt engineering and demonstrated use of Claude Code.
• Experience with market intelligence platforms and federal funding data sources (e.g., GovWin, USASpending, SAM.gov); strong data visualization skills (Power BI or equivalent).
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills; ability to engage executive, technical, and operational audiences effectively and to clarify requirements proactively.

Preferred Qualifications & Attributes:

• Experience designing or working with AI agents or automated research workflows.
• Experience building or managing strategic intelligence capabilities within complex organizations.
• Familiarity with federal research markets, science policy, or technology strategy.
• Intellectual curiosity and disciplined critical thinking; systems-level reasoning and root-cause analysis skills; comfort operating in ambiguous, evolving strategic contexts.

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The anticipated pay range for this role is listed below. Our pay ranges represent national averages and may vary by location as a geographic differential may be applied to some locations within the United States. RTI considers multiple factors when making an offer including, for example: established salary range, internal budget, business needs, and education and years of work experience possessed by the applicant. Further, salary is merely one element to our offer.

At RTI, we demonstrate our commitment to rewarding individual and team achievement through a total rewards package. This package includes (among other things) a competitive base salary, a generous paid time off policy, merit based annual increases, bonus opportunities and a robust recognition program. Other benefits include a competitive range of insurance plans (including health, dental, life, and short-term and long-term disability), access to a retirement savings program such as a 401(k) plan, paid parental leave for all parents, financial assistance with adoption expenses or infertility treatments, financial reimbursement for education and developmental opportunities, an employee assistance program, and numerous other offerings to support a healthy work-life balance.