[Hiring] Channel and Customer Research Sector Lead @AlphaSense

Role Description

As the Sector Lead for Financial Services on the Channel & Customer Research (CCR) team, you will play a pivotal role in building and maintaining AlphaSense’s channel research coverage across financial services companies, including insurance, banking, and fintech. Reporting to the Head of Channel & Customer Research, you will oversee the development and execution of CCR projects, ensuring questionnaires, expert sourcebases, and research outputs meet the firm’s standards for quality, consistency, and end-user value.

You will combine sector expertise with research leadership to guide a team of analysts responsible for conducting structured channel checks across a diverse set of financial services companies and value chains. Leveraging AlphaSense’s AI interviewer technology, you will help design and scale primary research workflows that generate consistent, trackable insights from industry participants, including brokers, agents, lenders, payment processors, technology vendors, and other ecosystem participants. Your responsibilities will include:

• Project setup
• Questionnaire development
• Expert sourcebase guidance
• Research quality oversight

Acting as the connective layer between research strategy and day-to-day execution, you will help expand coverage while maintaining a strong understanding of industry dynamics, regulatory considerations, and key market debates. You will also serve as a key stakeholder in refining research frameworks, improving workflows, and partnering with cross-functional teams to strengthen CCR’s Financial Services coverage and ensure consistent delivery of high-quality research.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain the CCR coverage roadmap for Financial Services equities, translating sector priorities into a structured pipeline of channel check projects aligned with investor demand, client engagement trends, and key debates across banking, insurance, and fintech.
• Lead the development of high-quality channel check frameworks, including expert sourcebase strategy and structured questionnaires that generate consistent, trackable insights across quarters and across companies under coverage.
• Serve as the primary domain expert for Financial Services, maintaining a strong understanding of business models, distribution channels, and key investment debates across areas such as lending, deposits, payments, insurance underwriting, and financial technology to guide project design and ensure research relevance.
• Collaborate closely with Operations Managers and analysts responsible for project execution, providing guidance on expert targeting, feasibility, and project structure to ensure channel checks generate actionable, differentiated insights from industry participants.
• Continuously identify new companies, sub-sectors, and channel check opportunities within the Financial Services ecosystem, expanding CCR coverage by mapping value chains (e.g., brokers, agents, lenders, ISVs, payments ecosystems) and identifying expert networks capable of supporting ongoing research.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in equity research, market intelligence, consulting, or a related analytical role, with exposure to Financial Services, including banking, insurance, fintech, or adjacent sectors.
• Strong domain knowledge of Financial Services, including familiarity with key companies, business models, distribution channels, and the core investment debates across areas such as lending, deposits, payments, underwriting, and financial technology.
• Experience designing primary research frameworks and questionnaires that translate industry knowledge into structured, repeatable insights, ideally within a channel check or expert interview context.
• Highly analytical and intellectually curious, capable of quickly developing expertise across new companies and subsectors while identifying where channel checks can generate differentiated, investable insights.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with research leadership, operations teams, and analysts to ensure projects are well-structured, feasible, and executed to a consistently high standard.

Requirements

• Base Compensation Range: $92,000 — $135,000 USD

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus
• Equity
• A generous benefits program

Company Description

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor.

This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.