Sr. Product Manager, M&A Transactions and Valuations

Skills

About the Role

You will oversee AlphaSense's M&A Transactions and Valuations content, bringing deep knowledge of capital markets and investment research along with experience managing third party or proprietary M&A Transactions content that feeds into financial research platforms and investment analysis workflows. You will engage with Sales, clients, and users to understand market needs and gather feedback on new content or functionality. You will build and manage a content roadmap alongside content leadership, engineering, and operations stakeholders, balancing costs, benefits, timelines, and resourcing. You will take ownership of evaluating and integrating third party or self-sourced proprietary datasets from initial research through testing, delivery, and ongoing enhancement. You will lead collaboration between content engineering and operations to design end-to-end data collection processes, including taxonomies, automation, QA, and integrity checks. You will contribute to launching new features, including internal and external communications, marketing collateral, documentation, and training material. You will own content collection policies and methodologies, balancing user feedback with process and technology constraints. You will also track industry trends and competitive intelligence to inform product and content vision.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience working in Product, Content, Operations, or equivalent roles at a financial institution, investment research platform, or market intelligence firm
• 3+ years of experience managing or working closely with a globally distributed content generation operation
• Expert knowledge of various market data and investment research databases, products, and tools
• Demonstrated ability to lead a dedicated cross-functional development team of engineers, data experts, QA, scrum master
• Thorough understanding of the logic and concepts of relational databases (e.g. SQL)
• BSc, MSc, or MBA degree with a concentration in finance or economics or a CFA certification
• Demonstrated passion for corporate finance, capital markets, financial analysis, and modeling
• Experience designing, building, launching and managing a marquee product, module, or functionality
• Ability to align diverse, cross-functional teams through clear, persuasive communication and executive-level presentations
• Material experience in the financial industry as a front office professional preferred
• Prior experience at a market intelligence or financial research SaaS start-up preferred
• Experience using iterative / agile development methodologies preferred
• Experience working with distributed teams preferred

Responsibilities

• Understand the market and use cases of various AlphaSense user personas
• Collaborate with Sales and clients/users to solicit feedback for new content and functionality or enhancement needs
• Create and manage a content roadmap by working with content organization leadership, engineering, and operations stakeholders
• Plan and optimize costs, benefits, timelines, and technology personpower mix for content sourcing or in-house generation
• Take ownership of key projects to evaluate and integrate third party or self-sourced proprietary datasets and related features
• Lead collaboration between content engineering and operations in designing the end-to-end data collection process
• Build and maintain taxonomies and optimize for the best mix of technology and personpower
• Establish integrity checks and QA processes
• Contribute to the successful launch of new features into the market including comms, marketing collateral, documentation, and training material
• Own content collection methodologies, rules, and policies
• Establish and maintain balance between inbound expert user feedback and process or technology/personpower limitations
• Track industry trends and deliver competitive intelligence
• Analyze competing content sets in the market and interact with customers to understand workflows and pain points

Benefits

• performance-based bonus
• equity
• generous benefits program