[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, and research quality oversight.
• Acting as the connective layer between research strategy and day-to-day execution.
• Helping expand coverage while maintaining a strong understanding of industry dynamics, regulatory considerations, and key market debates.
• Serving as a key stakeholder in refining research frameworks, improving workflows, and partnering with cross-functional teams.

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 core investment debates.
• Experience designing primary research frameworks and questionnaires that translate industry knowledge into structured, repeatable insights.
• Highly analytical and intellectually curious, capable of quickly developing expertise across new companies and subsectors.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with research leadership, operations teams, and analysts.

Requirements

• Develop and maintain the CCR coverage roadmap for Financial Services equities.
• Lead the development of high-quality channel check frameworks.
• Serve as the primary domain expert for Financial Services.
• Collaborate closely with Operations Managers and analysts responsible for project execution.
• Continuously identify new companies, sub-sectors, and channel check opportunities within the Financial Services ecosystem.

Benefits

• Base Compensation Range: $92,000 — $135,000 USD.
• Performance-based bonus.
• Equity options.
• A generous benefits program.