Research & Operations analyst - R&D

- As a TechR&D, Senior Research and Operations Analyst, you would be responsible in bringing an outside in perspective to Tech R&D function, with continuous research across primary and secondary sources.

- You will also be the operational backbone in driving process excellence, reproducibility, and research velocity across AI and conventional engineering initiatives.

- This role will partner deeply with senior tech leaders, engineers, and product manager to ensure our research is structured, measurable, and impactful.

Key Responsibilities:

- Design and implement scalable research workflows across distributed teams.

- Define research strategies in partnership with other research teams within Target and build synergies.

- Be the custodian of research standards-including documentation, reproducibility, and quality assurance practices.

- Build systems to integrate primary (experimental) and secondary (market, academic) research into decision-making.

- Ensure that competitive scans, landscape reviews, and benchmarking are part of the research lifecycle.

- Monitor industry trends and emerging research to inform internal direction-setting.

- Define and track R&D dashboards and KPIs.

- Lead cadences for planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

- Maintain centralized research knowledge repositories.

- Partner with R&D leadership to align research with product and engineering goals.

- Coordinate global initiatives ensuring milestone tracking and async alignment.

- 8-12 years in R&D team as a Research Analyst/Manager.

- GenAI, AI/ML and conventional engineering teams.