Principal, Business Operations and Strategy
AlphaSense
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.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!
About the Team:
- Enablement: supports our teams to do their best work through employee training, communications, and knowledge management
- Systems Strategy: supercharges workflow by leveraging technology and collaborating with Vendor and Product teams
- Strategy & Planning: steers the organization towards growth through quarterly / annual planning, account strategy, performance management, and operational strategy initiatives
- Compliance Programs: leverages systems, technology, and data to support compliance teams and processes
- Business Operations & Strategy: identifies and executes top-line growth and bottom-line optimization initiatives
About the Role:
As a Principal, Business Operations and Strategy, you will report to the Senior Director of Content Operations Strategy & Enablement and lead high-impact initiatives across the Expert Insights organization. You will own the strategic initiative roadmap, identifying, prioritizing, and executing the projects that matter most. You will serve as a key business partner to Operations Leadership, driving medium and long-term priorities and ensuring cross-functional alignment across Revenue, Product, Finance, Enablement, and Operations.
Your work will span growth opportunities, strategic initiatives, operational improvements, and new product exploration, helping the organization scale efficiently while unlocking new avenues for customer and content production expansion.
Who You Are:
- 7+ years of professional experience, ideally in consulting, corporate strategy, business operations, or a high-growth startup
- Experience operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a blend of strategy and execution
- Advanced Excel + SQL proficiency
- Familiarity with modern BI tools (Tableau, Looker, PBI)
- Ability to quantify impact and build ROI cases for initiatives
- Self-directed problem solver with strong first-principles and design thinking mindset
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects, make clear decisions, and deliver results in fast-paced environments
- Skilled in process mapping and scalable system design; Lean Six Sigma experience a plus
- Strong communicator who influences across levels and presents effectively to executives
- Brings stakeholders along efficiently, creating clarity without over-indexing on consensus
- Balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution and a high bar for quality
- Intellectually curious, adaptable, and collaborative; thrives in ambiguity and moves fast with precision
What You’ll Do:
Strategic Initiatives
- Lead 1 to 3 high-impact cross-functional projects each quarter
- Translate ambiguous problems into structured plans with clear success metrics
- Align stakeholders across Ops, Revenue, Product, Finance, and Enablement
- Stand up new processes or capabilities and transition them to long-term owners
Growth
- Identify and evaluate new service offerings, customer segments, and partnership opportunities
- Analyze market, customer, and performance data to uncover growth levers
- Build business cases and run pilots to test and scale new initiatives
- Track growth metrics and incorporate learnings into future plans
Operational Improvement
- Diagnose workflow bottlenecks and design scalable, efficient processes
- Implement operational enhancements and drive adoption across teams
- Lead root-cause analyses and establish repeatable, reliable processes
Roadmapping & Prioritization
- Maintain and communicate a prioritized initiative roadmap
- Assess opportunities based on impact, feasibility, and alignment to goals
- Provide regular updates and trade-off recommendations to leadership
- Adjust priorities as business needs and insights evolve
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.
You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.
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.
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