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About Forbes Intelligence
Forbes Intelligence specializes in collecting and validating data used to produce Forbes' data-driven lists and rankings—working with both internal stakeholders and external data partners to help create authoritative, timely, and accurate lists.
This role on the Forbes Intelligence team will play a key role in shaping how Forbes interprets and activates list data to help inform editorial coverage, marketing impact, and commercial storytelling. This role is responsible for analyzing finalized Accolades list data to identify meaningful movements, patterns, and comparative insights across companies, sectors, and industries.
Responsibilities
- Analyze finalized rankings data to identify key movements (e.g., year-over-year rank changes), underlying score drivers, and comparative performance across sectors and peer groups.
- Investigate ranking changes (e.g., major improvements, declines, new entrants) to uncover potential drivers and contextual themes.
- Develop 5–10 differentiated, data-backed insights per list cycle to highlight what is unique about the current year.
- Utilize list data to develop structured "insight briefs" or cheat sheets that summarize key narratives, macro patterns, and notable profiles, partnering with Editorial teams who translate these insights into published content.
- Share insights across Editorial, Accolades, and Marketing teams to help inform storytelling, client engagement, and revenue-generating outreach.
- Partner with Editorial leads to suggest story angles for deeper reporting.
- Translate list insights into clear, engaging narratives for use in marketing materials, social campaigns, and audience engagement initiatives.
- Ensure insights are grounded in validated data and aligned with finalized methodologies.
- Maintain documentation and context around ranking trends to support consistency and defensibility.
- Contribute to the development of data-driven reports and business-facing materials that leverage insights from Forbes list data.
The Ideal Candidate
- 3 years of experience in research, analytics, strategy, business intelligence, data journalism, or a related field.
- Strong ability to analyze structured datasets, including identifying trends, patterns, and anomalies across rankings data, and translating those findings into clear, defensible insights and narratives.
- Advanced Excel skills required; comfort working with large datasets.
- Experience working with business intelligence tools and interpreting survey data.
- Experience translating quantitative findings into clear, concise narrative summaries across editorial, marketing, or business contexts.
- Ability to identify patterns, anomalies, and macro themes within rankings data.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally with editorial, marketing, and commercial stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage insight development across multiple concurrent list cycles.
- Experience supporting rankings, benchmarks, large research programs, or data-driven initiatives preferred.
- Experience in data journalism, consulting, business intelligence, or similar fields preferred.
- Familiarity with social or marketing campaign strategy informed by data insights.
- Experience working in a media, publishing, or brand research environment.
Compensation and Location
The annual base salary range for this role is $75,000 - $85,000.
This position is only open to candidates residing in California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, & Washington.
Forbes is an equal opportunity employer.