Job Description
Join our elite team at Horizon Insights Group to shape tomorrow's business landscape today. We're seeking a visionary Strategic Futurist Analyst to decode emerging trends, disrupt conventional thinking, and architect strategic roadmaps for 2026 and beyond. This role combines deep research, data modeling, and executive consulting to guide Fortune 500 clients through unprecedented technological and societal shifts.
You'll operate at the intersection of AI ethics, climate tech, and human augmentation, translating complex signals into actionable frameworks. Our dynamic startup environment offers autonomy to pioneer methodologies while collaborating with industry pioneers.
Responsibilities
- Develop predictive models for 2026+ market disruptions using quantitative and qualitative foresight techniques
- Lead scenario-planning workshops for C-suite executives across aerospace, biotech, and quantum computing sectors
- Produce trend briefings on metaverse governance, decentralized AI, and neuro-technology convergence
- Design strategic roadmaps for client innovation portfolios aligned with 2030 sustainability mandates
- Establish cross-industry foresight networks through partnerships with MIT Media Lab and Singularity University
- Present findings at Davos and World Economic Forum summits
Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Futures Studies, Systems Theory, or Quantitative Social Sciences
- 5+ years experience in strategic foresight or innovation consulting
- Expertise in horizon scanning, Delphi methodology, and causal layered analysis
- Portfolio demonstrating published trend forecasting with 85%+ accuracy rate
- Proficiency in Python for trend modeling and Tableau for data visualization
- Deep understanding of exponential technologies (quantum, synthetic biology, AGI)
- Certification in Strategic Foresight from WFS or APF