Director - Content Strategy, Planning & Analysis

The Director of Content Strategy, Planning & Analysis will be responsible for managing various projects related to content vendors and content sets, assessing value propositions and ROI, and coordinating with product managers to document retrospectives on team performance. They will also be responsible for bringing together reports and presentations for AlphaSense's board of directors, sales meetings, leadership meetings, and ongoing status reports. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of experience in the Financial Technology/Financial Information industry, strong analytical skills, and the ability to lead and manage a small team.

• Take ownership of and lead the coordination of needs analysis, business justification, program & project management of a variety of projects
• Assess new content vendors/content sets for viability as an offering within AlphaSense products
• Help manage comparative analysis/bake-offs among vendors competing for selection
• Coordinate with business stakeholders and colleagues on the Content team for business ROI assessment, technical/integration analysis, revenue opportunity, and roadmap prioritization
• Assess value propositions & ROI, new content opportunities/areas of focus/prioritization through usage stats, revenue opportunity, client retention, and Win/Loss report mentions/requests
• Support cost comparisons amongst vendors, assessment of risk profile changes of partnerships, etc. as part of the renewal review process of existing vendor contracts
• Manage migrations from one vendor to another vendor or self-sourced content set(s)
• Coordinate with Product Managers within the Content org to document retrospectives on team performance/actual delivery vs. planned/communicated roadmaps
• Identify operational inefficiencies, implement process improvements, and drive time to market
• Bring together meaningful, informative, creative/eye-catching, qualitative, and quantitative-based reports and presentations for AlphaSense’s Board of Directors, Sales meetings, leadership meetings, business justifications, roadmaps, key project, and ongoing status reports, etc
• Forge partnerships with and coordinate ongoing communication, collaboration, and constructive engagement between the Content organization and internal stakeholder groups such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, RevOps, Business Intelligence, Go-To-Market, and others to ensure Content is identifying and addressing cross-group dependencies, and overall generating maximum execution and impact for the business
• Analyze other relevant competing products in the market and interact with customers to understand their workflows and pain points and gather and document actionable feedback
• Track industry trends and deliver competitive intelligence to better evolve product vision
• Lead a small team of Content Analysts, focused on Content support, vendor and content evaluation, assistance to Product Managers with QA, drafting specs, presentations/metrics, special projects, etc.

• 10+ years of experience in the Financial Technology/Financial Information industry
• Strong knowledge of the Financial Technology/Financial Information Industry
• Understanding of various user personas and use cases of search and analytical functionality
• Proven track record of managing various projects
• Outstanding ability to clearly identify a problem, comprise multiple potential solutions, present to and influence senior decision-makers/stakeholders to achieve buy-in and approval, finalize, plan, and lead the project plan through execution or hand-off to another stakeholder team
• Extensive experience in composing engaging, creative, and informative presentations, metrics and status reports for consumption by various business stakeholders and clients
• Great collaborator, communicator, and influencer across many internal stakeholder groups and external business partners
• Master at multi-tasking with a superior ability to set priorities, stay focused and meet or beat deadlines and goals
• Existing relationships with content vendors and knowledge of the competitive landscape among financial information vendors and their content sets are a plus
• Versed in content delivery using iterative/agile development methodologies
• Strong analytical skills, tech-savvy and outstanding attention to detail
• Advanced Excel/Word/PowerPoint, Google Sheets/Google Docs/Google Slides, and Project Management software experience
• Ability to lead/coach/mentor and manage a small team
• Experience working with distributed teams