Analyst
US$130,000 – US$190,000 / yr base salary
Posted 3 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Senior Analyst, U.S. Market Intelligence/Price-to-Win — X-BAT Family of Systems (R6168)”
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- Level
- R6168
- Expected experience
- 6–10 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
| Base salary | US$130,000 – US$190,000 / yr |
|---|
Field of studyBusiness, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Political Science, Public Policy, Security Studies (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
CertificationsProject Management Professional
Study levelMaster's
Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation and synthetic reality technologies. With offices and facilities across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, Shield AI’s technology actively supports operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.shield.ai. Follow Shield AI on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.
Job Description:
The Senior Analyst, U.S. Market Intelligence & Price-to-Win develops and sustains Shield AI's integrated understanding of U.S. defense funding, competition, and pricing for the X-BAT Family of Systems. The role turns primary-source budget data, competitor intelligence, program history, and market evidence into decision-ready inputs for strategy, capture, pricing, and go-to-market leaders.
This is a cumulative knowledge role, not a series of one-off studies. The analyst maintains an authoritative U.S. budget, competitive, and PTW knowledge base and keeps it current across the full budget and acquisition cycle, from President's Budget release through congressional marks, enactment, execution, competitions, and awards.
U.S. X-BAT FoS GTM leads own their customers, captures, and final pricing posture. This role owns the analytic layer beneath those decisions: the integrated view of available funding, competitors, likely bid strategies, and defensible Price-to-Win positions. It is a pre-award enablement role and is not the primary customer or congressional interface.
What you'll do:
- Own the integrated U.S. market picture. Maintain one product-line-aligned view of DoW funding, competitors, programs, acquisitions, awards, and pricing signals relevant to the X-BAT Family of Systems.
- Lead U.S. budget intelligence. Track requested, marked, appropriated, and executed resources across the PPBE and congressional cycle, including budget releases, marks, enactment, execution, reprogrammings, and budget line item adjustments.
- Work from primary budget sources. Extract and interpret data from J-books, P-1/R-1/O-1 exhibits, committee reports and marks, appropriations acts, reprogramming actions, and OMB and Treasury reporting.
- Lead competitive intelligence. Develop and maintain competitor profiles, product-line baselines, differentiation analyses, competitor courses of action, teaming maps, and market assessments for the U.S. defense market.