Sector Lead

As a Sector Lead (Energy & Industrials) on our Directed Content team, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring AlphaSense delivers the highest-quality proprietary research content within your assigned sector. Reporting to the Director of Research for E&I you will oversee the day-to-day execution of Directed Content projects, ensuring all work meets the firm’s standards for quality, relevance, and, end-user value delivery. As Sector Lead, you will manage coverage of EMEA and APAC companies. You will combine operational rigor with sector expertise to oversee a team of Project Managers responsible for generating expert call transcripts across a diverse range of topics within your coverage universe. Your responsibilities will span project setup, expert sourcing guidance, transcript quality assurance, budget oversight, and performance management. Acting as the connective layer between the Director of Research’s strategic vision and day-to-day execution, you will ensure flawless delivery of sector coverage plans while maintaining a pulse on emerging market themes and client information needs. You will also serve as a key stakeholder in developing and optimizing project workflows, implementing structured QA and feedback loops, and partnering with Product and Operations teams to pilot new AI-enabled tools that elevate both efficiency and insight quality. What You’ll Do: - Partner with the Director of Research to develop and maintain a strategic sector roadmap, which you will then translate into a structured execution plan, ensuring coverage aligns with key market and client priorities. - Manage and mentor a team of Project Managers that oversee the execution of Directed Content projects, setting clear goals, tracking KPIs, and ensuring accountability across all deliverables. - Collaborate with Operations Managers who oversee Analyst execution of expert recruiting, onboarding, and interaction facilitation to align operational KPIs to coverage strategy and optimize execution - Own expert budget management for your sector, allocating resources effectively to maximize content ROI while maintaining high quality and throughput. - Oversee a structured QA process for ensuring transcripts within your sector of coverage meet the highest standards for data accuracy, relevance, structure, and analytical depth. - Collaborate closely with the Director of Research and our Content Strategy Analyst to monitor engagement data, identify coverage gaps, and recalibrate project pipelines accordingly. - Collaborate closely with the Director of Research to identify and shape content to support revenue-generating efforts such as white papers, webinars, internal and external presentations. - Establish and maintain feedback loops with call takers and project teams to enhance the quality and insight of future content. - Collaborate with North America directed content teams to ensure high quality output and consistency. - Partner with Operations and Product teams to pilot and optimize AI-enabled tools that improve project throughput, QA precision, and overall efficiency. - Maintain deep familiarity with ongoing developments within the Energy & Industrials sector, proactively surfacing new themes and companies to guide future research focus. Who You Are: - You have 5–7 years of experience in equity research, market intelligence, consulting, or a related analytical role within Energy & Industrials (E&I) - You bring deep domain expertise in Energy & Industrials (E&I) with a strong grasp of the key players, business models, and industry trends shaping your space. - You have a strong understanding of European and Asian equity markets. - You have proven people management experience, successfully leading, mentoring, and developing teams of project managers or analysts. - You are skilled at translating strategic objectives into actionable research projects that yield high-impact insights. - You possess exceptional organizational, analytical, and critical-thinking skills, able to balance multiple priorities with agility while maintaining high quality standards. - You have a strong command of project economics, capable of managing budgets, optimizing expert costs, and tracking ROI to ensure resource efficiency. - You are adept at working cross-functionally with Directors of Research, Go-to-Market, Product, and Compliance to ensure alignment and continuous improvement. - You are intellectually curious, client-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. - You maintain a strong understanding of compliance, MNPI, and confidentiality standards across all project types.