Analyst Relations Specialist

Overview

SolarWinds is looking for an Analyst Relations Specialist to support the execution of our analyst relations program across key industry firms and strategic markets. This role is ideal for a strong early-to-mid-career professional who brings a mix of coordination, market curiosity, and cross-functional collaboration, and who is excited to help turn analyst engagement into better business decisions.

The Analyst Relations Specialist will support core analyst relations activities, including analyst interactions, evaluations, insight capture, internal enablement, and operational workflows. The role is best suited for someone who enjoys equal parts of project management, market curiosity, and cross-functional collaboration. This person will also identify practical ways to use AI and automation to improve efficiency, streamline recurring work, and help the analyst relations program scale more effectively.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Senior Analyst Relations Manager, the Analyst Relations Specialist will help support the day-to-day execution of SolarWinds Analyst Relations program. This includes coordinating analyst briefings and inquiries, supporting evaluation processes, maintaining planning systems and trackers, organizing internal materials, and translating analyst feedback into concise and actionable internal summaries.

This role is intended for someone who can operate independently on day-to-day execution while continuing to grow in strategic judgment and ownership. The right candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable working across Product Marketing, Product Management, Communications, and other internal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Help coordinate and support analyst briefings, inquiries, and other engagement requests across priority firms.
• Manage calendars, trackers, prep materials, follow-ups, and internal logistics for analyst interactions.
• Maintain accurate records of analyst activity, timelines, contacts, and status updates across internal systems.
• Support recurring analyst relations rhythms such as planning check-ins, status reviews, and stakeholder updates.
• Support participation in analyst evaluations, including timelines, drafts, review cycles, reference coordination, and submission logistics.
• Help gather inputs from Product Management, Product Marketing, Communications, and other stakeholders for reports, briefings and evaluation.
• Organize source materials, proof points, and supporting documents used in analyst-facing content.
• Assist with quality control across briefing decks, background notes, fact checks, and related materials.
• Capture analyst feedback and summarize key takeaways in a clear, concise, and actionable format.
• Help translate analyst insights into internal readouts for Product Management, Marketing, Sales, and leadership teams.
• Track themes across analyst conversations, research, and report outcomes to help identify patterns and opportunities.
• Support internal distribution of approved insights, results, and learnings to relevant stakeholders.
• Help ensure analyst-related requests are organized, prioritized, and routed appropriately.
• Support activation of analyst outcomes, such as approved reprints, internal summaries, campaign coordination, and related follow-through.
• Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve efficiency in research summarization, meeting notes, first-draft development, content organization and other recurring operational tasks
• Contribute to process improvement by helping standardize templates, trackers, and operating workflows.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, journalism, business, public relations, or related fields.
• 3 -5 years of relevant experience in analyst relations, public relations, product marketing, communications, market research, or a related coordination role.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfort working across cross-functional teams and communicating with a range of stakeholders.
• Strong curiosity about enterprise technology, market trends, and industry narratives.
• Demonstrated ability to turn research, notes and stakeholder input into clear and useful internal communications.
• Proficiency with common workplace tools for presentations, spreadsheets, document collaboration, and project tracking.

Preferred

• Exposure to B2B technology, SaaS, IT, observability, service management, database, or infrastructure categories.
• Familiarity with firms such as Gartner, Forrester, IDC, GigaOm, EMA, or similar research organizations.
• Experience supporting research submissions, briefings, stakeholder coordination, or content review processes.
• Experience summarizing research or turning complex information into concise internal communications.
• Exposure to AI tools or workflow automation used to improve team productivity and operating efficiency.