# Analyst, International Market Intelligence — X-BAT (R6169) **Company**: Shield AI **Location**: Dallas, Texas **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: mid **Job type**: Full Time Employee **Salary**: USD 100,000-160,000 per-year-salary **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/c7e1f8b3-75a8-4499-9559-8ab4c459f6b5?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d274cc78-db6 ## Description Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. The International Market Intelligence Analyst develops and maintains consistent, decision-ready budget and competitive information for international autonomous combat aircraft markets. ## Responsibilities - Maintain international budget coverage. Track partner-nation defense budgets, relevant program lines, and multi-year procurement and sustainment plans for priority autonomous combat aircraft markets. - Maintain international competitive coverage. Keep competitor profiles, competition and award trackers, product comparisons, and teaming and industrial-partnership maps current for assigned countries and regions. - Develop integrated country and regional reads. Combine budget and competitive data into decision-ready products covering funding, timing, competitors, acquisition path, and industrial expectations for GTM and Mission Success teams. - Work from primary sources. Collect and extract data from defense budgets, white papers, parliamentary and legislative records, procurement notices, and reputable open-source reporting, supplemented by commercial market data when available. - Curate the knowledge base. Maintain a structured, cumulative, and queryable international budget and competitive knowledge base using AI-enabled tools for ingestion, organization, and upkeep. - Publish on cadence and on demand. Deliver recurring updates and respond to scoped rapid-turn requests supporting pursuits, campaign reviews, proposal inputs, and leadership decisions. - Track market developments. Monitor programs, competitions, awards, teaming, industrial partnerships, offsets, and co-production developments in assigned markets and elevate material changes. - Support the international campaign system. Provide reliable inputs that help country and regional leads shape pursuits, identify intelligence gaps, and establish collection priorities. - Support a culture of accountability, urgency, collaboration, and continuous improvement. ## Requirements - 3–6 years of relevant experience in international defense budget analysis, competitive intelligence, market research, business development analysis, or closely related work in defense or aerospace. - Working knowledge of international defense budgets and public budget documentation, with the ability to extract useful signal from incomplete and heterogeneous sources. - Experience conducting competitive or market analysis, including competitor profiles, market assessments, or product comparisons. - Working familiarity with international defense acquisition and pursuit dependencies, including FMS, DCS, or hybrid pathways and associated approval, disclosure, and exportability considerations. - Strong research, data-handling, analytic writing, and briefing skills, with the ability to produce clear products for senior and non-specialist audiences. - Ability to manage recurring production while responding to short-notice, well-scoped internal requests. - Experience using AI tools to organize and maintain structured, reusable knowledge resources. - Bachelor's degree in international affairs, security studies, economics, finance, political science, business, engineering, or a related field. - Demonstrated alignment with Shield AI core values: Do What Honor Dictates, Live as a Servant Leader, Pursue Excellence. - Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required and to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance. ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting defense business development, capture, or strategy. - Exposure to large UAV, unmanned, or autonomous aircraft programs. - Familiarity with offset, co-production, or industrial-participation frameworks in one or more priority markets. - Regional expertise or language skills relevant to Europe, the Middle East, or Asia-Pacific. - Familiarity with foreign disclosure, security cooperation, embassy or country-team coordination, or interagency advocacy. ## Success in this Role - Country and regional GTM leads and Mission Success have current, reliable, and consistent budget and competitive information for priority autonomous combat aircraft markets. - Country and regional products are delivered on cadence, use traceable sources, and identify material gaps or uncertainty. - Budget and competitive context is present early enough to help shape pursuits and inform capture strategies rather than being appended after key decisions. - The international knowledge base grows in coverage and quality quarter over quarter, and recurring questions take less time to answer. - Material funding shifts, competitor moves, and industrial dynamics in assigned markets are identified and elevated in time for the campaign system to respond. ## Skills ### Required - international defense budget analysis - competitive intelligence - market research - business development analysis - data handling - analytic writing - briefing - AI tools ### Nice to have - defense business development - capture or strategy - large UAV - unmanned or autonomous aircraft programs - offset - co-production - industrial-participation frameworks --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/c7e1f8b3-75a8-4499-9559-8ab4c459f6b5?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)