Director of Strategy & Planning, AlphaSense
$195.6-270k
OTE
$163-225k
BASE
+ 20% Bonus
3+ days a week in office
Market intelligence and search platform
Be an early applicant
Market intelligence and search platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$195.6-270k
OTE
$163-225k
BASE
+ 20% Bonus
3+ days a week in office
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
- 7+ years of experience in consulting, corporate strategy, FP&A, revenue operations, strategic finance, or a high-growth startup
- 2+ years managing teams, including experience building and maintaining team roadmaps
- Advanced Excel + SQL proficiency
- Experience with BI tools (Tableau, Looker, PBI)
- Strong ability to model capacity, forecast performance, and quantify impact
- Quick, adaptive learner with strong operational acumen and a bias for action
- Applies design thinking, structured problem-solving, and data-driven frameworks to create scalable systems and processes
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and manage multiple priorities
- Experienced in process design and documentation best practices; Lean Six Sigma familiarity a plus
- Skilled at simplifying complexity, driving clarity, and aligning teams through change
- Strong communicator who influences at all levels and delivers executive-ready insights
- People-focused leader who develops talent, builds high-performing teams, and leads through others
- Balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution and operational excellence
- Curious, articulate, and adaptable; thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
What the job involves
- AlphaSense’s Content Operations Strategy and Enablement (COSE) team is responsible for establishing the strategy and infrastructure to drive sustainable and scalable growth for our Expert Calls and Compliance Operations organizations
- We work closely with client-facing and cross-functional teams to drive impact across AlphaSense’s Expert Insights organization
- Our team is organized into the following pillars:
- Enablement: supports our teams to do their best work through employee training, communications, and knowledge management
- Systems Strategy: supercharges workflow by leveraging technology and collaborating with Vendor and Product teams
- Strategy & Planning: steers the organization towards growth through quarterly / annual planning, account strategy, performance management, and operational strategy initiatives
- Compliance Programs: leverages systems, technology, and data to support compliance teams and processes
- Business Operations & Strategy: identifies and executes top-line growth and bottom-line optimization initiatives
- As the Director of Strategy & Planning, you will report to the Senior Director of Content Operations Strategy & Enablement (COSE) and lead the Strategy & Planning team (Senior Manager + Associate). You will manage the operational strategy and planning for our Expert Call Services, Generated Content, and Compliance Operations teams. You will also collaborate with our GTM teams on annual planning related to our call services business
- You will own the Expert Insights Operating Model, build and maintain capacity models, support data-driven decision-making, and run key planning cycles. You will be a strategic partner to Operations Leadership, ensuring clear communication, alignment, and cross-functional execution across Operations, GTM, Enablement, Ops Systems, Product, and Finance
- This role is instrumental in driving productivity, efficiency, scalability, and continuous improvement across a growing, customer-facing organization. The ideal candidate is analytical, self-driven, collaborative, and highly strategic
- Forecasting & Planning
- Maintain and build the annual plan, including departmental output goals, operational targets, and staffing levels
- Own quarterly forecasting and goaling processes
- Monitor capacity and utilization to determine staffing needs and optimize resourcing
- Lead go-to-market planning with Revenue Operations and FP&A
- Account Strategy & Planning
- Ensure teams operate at target staffing levels through capacity monitoring and strategic course correction
- Own the account segmentation framework
- Lead account balancing and territory planning initiatives
- Performance Management & Incentive Structures
- Support goal-setting across all roles and teams
- Evaluate and calibrate KPIs to drive desired business outcomes
- Design and administer role-based incentive plans
- Business Performance Measurement
- Work with department leaders to establish and maintain OKRs
- Build and maintain departmental reporting suite to understand performance to goal and quickly identify root causes of under of overperformance
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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