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Analyst I, Directed Content

AlphaSense · Chicago, IL · Expert Insights

Posted Sep 21, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you researched an industry you knew nothing about.

What they are checking: Whether they can ramp up quickly on unfamiliar sectors, which the transcript library requires.

Tell me about a time you managed many tasks with tight deadlines.

What they are checking: Whether they can handle the volume of directed content work.

How do you follow markets and company news day to day?

What they are checking: Whether they have real curiosity about markets and industries.

Why does expert insight interest you as a career starting point?

What they are checking: Whether they understand the work and want it, not just a finance-adjacent title.

What would you do

If you had to pick experts to interview about the electric vehicle battery supply chain, who would you look for and why?

What they are checking: Whether they can think about which voices give real insight on an industry topic.

An expert starts sharing what sounds like confidential information from their current employer. What should happen?

What they are checking: Whether they recognize compliance risk around material nonpublic information.

How do you decide which topics or companies to cover next?

What they are checking: Whether they think about client demand and market events when choosing content.

An expert gives vague, generic answers on a call. What would you change next time?

What they are checking: Whether they can improve expert selection and question design over time.

About the work

How would you write questions for an expert call so the transcript is useful to investors?

What they are checking: Whether they know what makes expert insight valuable to buy-side readers.

What makes an expert transcript valuable rather than just interesting?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that clients want specific, decision-useful insight.

Walk me through how you'd research a public company's competitive position in an hour.

What they are checking: Whether they know where to look and how to organize findings quickly.

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About AlphaSense:&nbsp; 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.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us! About Expert Insights: Expert Insights, which spans AlphaSense’s Expert Transcript Library and 1x1 Call Services offerings,&nbsp; 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 Operations Manager, Directed Content, our Directed Content Analysts are responsible for sourcing highest-quality and most-relevant experts based on the scope of research projects and defined by Project Managers. Analysts develop a deep understanding of the types of profiles that are most relevant targets and topics within their assigned industry territories, and leverage a combination of research skills and an inquisitive mindset to find individuals who meet those profiles. Analysts are also energetic and charismatic communicators, meeting directly with prospective experts to evaluate their suitability for assigned projects, and onboarding the best candidates to our network. Who You Are: • 2+ years of experience in research, recruiting, talent sourcing, market intelligence, or a related role requiring proactive outreach and candidate/expert evaluation • Inquisitive: You are naturally interested in learning and quickly see patterns that help you to identify the best possible experts for a given research project • Energetic: You have a proven ability to manage fast turnaround projects, meet deadlines and targets • Organized: You have demonstrated an ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously • Detail Oriented: You have a strong attention detail, with the ability to discern and precisely document the core elements of an expert’s relevant skills or experience vis-a-vis a defined scope&nbsp; • Excellent Communicator: You’ll regularly be engaging with industry experts to learn about their background and convey what it means to participate in our network • Goal Oriented: You are motivated by the idea of identifying and delivering the best-possible expert profiles to our Client Contributors for each project scope quickly and efficiently What You’ll Do: • Conduct research to identify the best-fit experts for projects that are assigned to you by your Project Manager • Work with your Project Manager to confirm and refine the scope of projects as you conduct research and sourcing • Conduct email and LinkedIn outreach to prospective experts • Coordinate and conduct calls with prospective experts to validate their background and fit for assigned projects • Document experts’ relevant experience in a clear and concise manner - facilitating quick and accurate evaluation of expert profiles by Client Contributors • Answer expert questions and handle any objections to maximize the onboarding rate of high-quality and relevant experts to our network • Negotiate expert rates to minimize costs while aligning payment to the value of the experts’ insight and background vis-a-vis the research target • Support the scheduling of calls between experts and Client Contributors for your projects • Monitor calls and troubleshoot any connectivity issues What We Offer: • Competitive compensation package • Equity opportunities • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible PTO and remote work options • Learning & development resources • A high-impact role in a fast-growing, mission-driven company For 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.&nbsp; You may also be offered equity, and a generous benefits program. Compensation Range $52,500 &mdash; $71,500 USD AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination. In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works. Recruiting Scams and Fraud We at AlphaSense have been made aware of fraudulent job postings and individuals impersonating AlphaSense recruiters. These scams may involve fake job offers, requests for sensitive personal information, or demands for payment. 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