Macro Research & Content Strategy Associate
FT Partners is an investment banking firm focused exclusively on financial technology.
About FT Partners
Financial Technology Partners, also known as FT Partners, is a global investment banking firm focused exclusively on the FinTech sector. The firm provides strategic advisory services such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, fairness opinions, and anti-raid advisory, as well as financial advisory services including private capital raising, private equity, restructuring and LBOs, IPO advisory, and valuations. FT Partners also operates a FinTech equity research and strategic insights platform, publishing market reports, transaction analysis, and research for institutional investors and industry executives. Its clients include early-stage startups, high-growth private companies, public companies, financial institutions, investors, CEOs, and boards of directors across the financial technology ecosystem.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Financial Technology Partners is seeking a highly analytical, AI-native Research & Content Strategy Associate to join its San Francisco team. The role combines market research, data analysis, content creation, email marketing, and AI-powered workflow automation.
Requirements
- 3–7+ years of experience in research, consulting, market intelligence, equity research, investment banking, journalism, strategy, or a related analytical role.
- Exceptional writing and communication skills.
- Experience producing polished research reports for executive audiences.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of complex information quickly.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Responsibilities
- Conduct primary and secondary research across industry, financial, academic, news, and proprietary sources.
- Develop research methodologies and validate findings through independent sources.
- Analyze datasets, identify market trends, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative insights.
- Build dashboards, visualizations, market landscapes, industry analyses, company profiles, white papers, and thought leadership.
- Create and repurpose articles, blog posts, case studies, LinkedIn content, website copy, presentations, and sales collateral.
- Build and optimize targeted email marketing campaigns, including segmentation and A/B testing.
- Leverage AI platforms and build AI-assisted workflows for research, writing, data synthesis, and content generation.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive knowledge work and continuously evaluate new AI tools.