Principal Analyst, Public Cloud

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🏄 California, Connecticut, +7 more states – Remote

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💵 $141k - $263k / year

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Forrester

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏢 Enterprise

Consulting • Marketing • Enterprise

Forrester is a global research and advisory firm that provides subscription research, consulting, and events to help executives and organizations make strategic technology, marketing, and customer-experience decisions. It produces proprietary research (including The Forrester Wave™), large-scale surveys, tailored advisory services, and tools like Forrester Decisions and Forrester AI to embed insights into client workflows. Forrester serves enterprise clients across industries and delivers strategy, benchmarking, and execution support to technology, marketing, and customer-experience leaders.

📋 Description

• Lead Forrester’s public cloud platform research across research teams and with sales, product, and customer success • Develop understanding of the needs of technology executives, cloud leaders, architects, infrastructure and operations leaders, platform teams, and application development leaders • Conduct primary research through interviews, surveys, vendor briefings, and market analysis • Analyze major and emerging public cloud providers and translate market developments into implications for enterprise customers and technology vendors • Help clients navigate trade-offs involving cost, performance, resilience, security, data sovereignty, portability, skills, operating models, ecosystems, and vendor concentration • Create approximately eight to 12 actionable research projects per year, including reports, tools, webinars, videos, blogs, podcasts, infographics, and other intellectual property • Drive and lead Forrester Wave™ and Landscape research in public cloud and adjacent markets • Develop decision frameworks, maturity models, best practices, and practical cloud guidance • Consult with clients through inquiry, guidance, advisory, and consulting engagements • Present at Forrester-sponsored and industry events and deliver webinars, workshops, and executive presentations • Establish an industry presence through speaking, thought leadership, relationships with senior technology leaders, cloud providers, ecosystem partners, and journalists, plus vendor briefings and press inquiries • Support business development and prospect conversations • Foster cross-team collaboration, mentorship, intellectual rigor, integrity, and client impact

🎯 Requirements

• BA/BS degree or equivalent professional experience • At least 10 years’ experience in senior practitioner, cloud architect, platform or infrastructure leader, consultant, technology strategist, vendor executive, or research analyst roles focused on public cloud or closely related domains • Deep knowledge of the public cloud market, including hyperscale and alternative, sovereign, industry, and specialized cloud providers • Demonstrated experience with cloud strategy, architecture, platform selection, migration, modernization, cloud-native development, or cloud operations in complex enterprise environments • Strong working knowledge of infrastructure as a service; containers and Kubernetes; serverless and application platform services; data and AI platform services; hybrid and multicloud management; cloud networking, storage, compute, security, resilience, observability, and automation • Understanding of organizational and operating-model changes required for cloud success • Ability to evaluate technology platforms and markets through technical and business lenses • Demonstrated ability to advise senior management and C-level clients • Superior client-facing communication, listening, interviewing, critical thinking, collaboration, analytical, writing, editing, and presentation skills • Ability to distill complex ideas into simple, provocative concepts and take well-supported positions • Ability to travel up to 30% of the time • Preferred: experience advising or delivering cloud programs for large enterprises, regulated industries, or global organizations • Preferred: hands-on or leadership experience with major public cloud platforms and cloud architecture frameworks • Preferred: experience leading comparative market evaluations, vendor selection, product strategy, consulting engagements, or executive-level thought leadership • Preferred: established network among enterprise cloud leaders, cloud providers, service partners, or industry media

🏖️ Benefits

• Exposure to industry experts and to top business leaders within Fortune 1000 companies • Access to research that influences global leaders every day • World-class learning and development opportunities • All the cappuccino you can drink • The opportunity to rock out with guitars in our Cambridge headquarters’ lobby and take piano lessons on Friday • Onsite massages • Fierce foosball and ping-pong rivalry • A top-notch fitness center and new pickleball courts • Zagster bike-sharing and rental program • A competitive benefits package • Opportunity to work in a LEED Gold- and LEED Platinum-certified building