Operations Manager, Directed Content

Job Description

About AlphaSense: The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.

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About Expert Insights:Expert Insights, which spans AlphaSense’s Expert Transcript Library and 1×1 Call Services offerings, delivers a new and transformative form of market intelligence content. Through transcripts covering thousands of companies, it captures the unfiltered views and insights of business operators in the trenches, interviewed by professional investors who drill into key questions on what’s truly important about a company at each moment in time. AlphaSense’s library of over 140,000 transcripts is the market’s largest, covering all sectors of the economy, with thousands more published each month.

Expert Insights is quickly becoming a table-stakes solution for institutional investors to choose the right companies to invest in while gaining rapid adoption among all other consumers of market intelligence from sell-side research and banking, consultancies, and large corporations. About the Team:The Directed Content Team is an integral part of the Expert Insights group, generating thousands of calls each quarter on high-value and strategic content targets – ensuring that the AlphaSense Expert Transcript Library delivers comprehensive coverage to our users.

The Directed Content team is responsible for identifying, recruiting, and onboarding the best possible experts from around the world based on the targets and topics we are looking to generate content against – ensuring that the interviews with those experts are of the highest-possible quality and relevance. About the Role:Reporting to the Senior Director, Directed Content Operations – Directed Content Operations Managers oversee our Directed Content research pods. Operations Managers are accountable for the overall performance of the research pods under their purview – motivating, managing, and supporting a team of Project Managers and Analysts in the delivery of high-quality, relevant content against our Directed Content volume and coverage goals.

Natural people leaders, our Operations Managers are responsible for cultivating the talent on their team, bringing out the best in our employees through coaching, goal setting, and the delivery of clear and actionable feedback. Operations Managers are also process optimizers, identifying bottlenecks in Analyst and Project Manager workflows that slow production or lead to wasted efforts, and addressing them in ways that ensure the delivery of high-quality and relevant content to the library. Who You Are:Inspiring leader: You are deeply invested in Directed Content’s mission and vision of delivering high-quality, relevant insights to our customers – and are adept at connecting your team and their efforts to that mission, fostering a sense of ownership and meaningPeople manager: You have deep experience setting performance and professional development goals, and a successful track record in motivating, coaching, supporting, and holding individuals accountable in achieving those goalsTeam builder: You know how to build culture and support infrastructure that brings individual contributors together and enables them achieve their greatest collective potentialEntrepreneurial: You are passionate about the development of teams, people, and processes and are motivated to drive the success of Directed Content and Expert InsightsMetrics minded: You have a demonstrated track record of setting relevant KPIs to measure the success of both people and processesData driven: You have a proven ability to build dashboards and analysis to spot patterns in productivity and output that inform your day-to-day management of the teamProcess innovator: You have a strong track record of building processes that drive scale and efficiency for your teamsProblem solver: You have a proven ability to identify the root cause of issues and roadblocks, and implement sustainable solutionsSkilled communicator: You’re able to leverage excellent oral and written communication skills to understand needs and drive alignment both with internal and external stakeholders What You’ll Do: Manage a team of Directed Content Project Managers and Analysts aligned to sectors of coverage and structured in podsSet and track performance KPIs for your team that balance output quality, relevance, and volumeGuide the professional development of Analysts and Project Managers under your supervisionEnsure overall library quality and relevance by partnering with Project Managers to adjust research focus and sourcing strategies that support quality and relevance goalsCoordinate with Project Managers to define and update coverage territories based on evolving coverage goals and team capacityHire and onboard Analysts and Project Managers Partner with Directed Content leadership and Directors of Research to define and update Directed Content coverage goals, and align research pod capacity and focus to evolving goalsPartner with Directed Content Enablement to design and maintain process documentation and knowledge resources for teamPartner with Director of Contributor Relations to ensure optimal Client Contributor coverage based on Directed Content coverage goalsWork closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot issues and devise process, systems, and workflow improvements for research podsReview and approve expert rates over a fixed threshold – keeping average expert costs below $300 per callFor base compensation, we set standard ranges for all roles based on function and level benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables.

In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below. You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

Base Compensation Range$90,000 – $125,000 USD

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