Senior Product Manager, AlphaSense
Financial Data
$158-185k
Market intelligence and search platform
Be an early applicant
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$158-185k
1001+ employees
Company mission
AlphaSense's mission is to organise the world’s business information and leverage technology to enable companies to make smarter, faster, and more confident decisions.
Role
Who you are
- Candidates should have extensive experience managing complex data projects that span multiple teams paired with working knowledge of user workflows related to financial data (such as investor research, quantitative analysis, M&A, etc.)
- 7+ years of product management experience in the fintech, investment research, or financial services industry
- Proven track record of managing complex products with many moving parts. You excel at making difficult trade-off decisions and sequencing development to deliver value under tight deadlines
- Strong communication skills and highly team-oriented
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Experience with Notion and Linear
- Data Fluent: Comfortable using SQL, LLMs, or a combination of both to query complex datasets, audit for quality, and translate technical findings into user value is considered an asset
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or business, MBA or a CFA designation
What the job involves
- Reports to: Director of Product, FinData
- The Financial Data content organization is responsible for curating best-in-class structured data, both self-sourced and from third party content providers
- The team was historically focused primarily on building a platform of 4,000+ fundamental financial models
- The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence
- Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion and enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets
- Within this new environment, the Global Research team is integrating our rich dataset into the platform alongside third party data to create a new final database that will offer our customers an unmatched level of accuracy, context, and flexibility to analyze and make investment decisions
- We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to oversee the integration of new structured data into the AlphaSense platform
- Manage the entire “zero-to-one” product lifecycle from initial data analysis through launch, understanding how to structure the data to support multiple workflows, define requirements, supporting development, testing, managing ongoing feedback in incremental enhancements
- Act as the primary bridge between complex user workflows and technical execution, translating sophisticated analytical needs into robust data architectures while partnering with platform peers (Web, Excel, and AI) to ensure seamless data delivery
- Work alongside internal domain experts with deep capital markets / investment research experience to understand user pain points, validate product hypotheses, prompt innovation and inform prioritization
- Articulate core client problems and collaborate with engineers to validate potential solutions based on robust customer feedback, strategic objectives, market analysis, and technical feasibility
- Manage the entire product lifecycle from initial data analysis through launch, understanding how to structure the data to support multiple workflows, define requirements, supporting development, testing, managing ongoing feedback in incremental enhancements
- Vigilant in remaining well informed of industry trends to deliver competitive intelligence to better evolve product and content vision. Analyze other relevant competing content sets in the market. and interact with customers to understand their workflows and pain points and gather and document actionable feedback
- Demonstrate strong and persuasive communication skills, ensuring complex ideas are understood by cross-departmental partners, gaining alignment and buy-in to drive valuable impact
Our take
Manual research can be a serious pain: financial analysts spend hours every week searching through PDFs one keyword at a time, just to find a single usable insight. To remedy this, AlphaSense has built a smart search engine that slashes research time for analysts, using thousands of sources and a semantic indexing layer that can effectively query finance-specific language.
As a disruptor and market leader in this field, AlphaSense has few direct competitors, being most closely compared to Wolfram Alpha or LexisNexis. It helps that its tools are undoubtedly effective and valued by knowledge professionals: the company counts about 85% of the S&P 100 as customers and is trusted by J.P.Morgan, Microsoft, Credit Suisse and Google, among other major enterprises.
Having raised a large amount of funding over 2022 and 2023, AlphaSense has moved quickly to double down on its expansion in European markets, opening an office in Berlin to support this. With 2024 seeing investment from Singaporean EDBI, it has now set its sights on the Asia-Pacific region. As business intelligence will remain key for enterprises as they compete for market share, AlphaSense is well-placed for additional future growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2024
$650m
LATE VC
Sep 2023
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Union Square, New York, NY
Leadership
Jaakko Kokko
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founder of Silecs (materials used in the microelectronics industry).
Raj Neervannan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experienced executive. Previously CTO at Mastek and ChoicePoint, and CEO at Framesoft. Has an MBA from Wharton.
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