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The Associate Director will play an important role in advancing research on private markets by analyzing data and writing commentaries as part of S&P Global Ratings’ Private Markets Analytics team. You will help develop and maintain a portfolio of new research publications, covering emerging and established trends in the private markets and utilizing data from across S&P Global to provide transparency and insights on the corporate debt capital market.  

You will operate as a market writer and data journalist within an agile research group, helping to establish and expand Private Markets Analytics’ core research offering. As such, you will be an initiator and innovator, leveraging proprietary data sources to produce regular and recurring reports on private markets, contributing insights that drive market-moving thought leadership, and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to advance broader research initiatives.   

Our content is written for financial market participants who are specifically engaged in private markets, as well as general audiences who are eager to learn more about this space. Your focus in this role is to produce a suite of regular research publications related to the private markets, and to develop original research that aligns with these audiences.  

The Team:  

S&P Global Ratings’ Private Markets Analytics team is focused on how private funding is changing debt capital markets and impacting the growth and evolution of areas like sustainability and digital infrastructure. The purpose of this team is to create and cascade S&P Global Ratings’ coverage of private markets, in partnership with stakeholders across our organization’s Analytical, Research & Development, and Commercial functions.  

Our Private Markets Analytics team generates unique, market-leading insights on private markets. We bring a data-driven subject matter expertise on private markets and leverage the expertise of the broader organization to reflect the knowledge, insights, and ratings capacity of 2,000 analysts across global corporates, financial institutions, sovereigns, infrastructure, and other asset classes throughout public and private capital markets.  

The Private Market Analytics team is part of Analytical Research & Development (R&D) within S&P Global Ratings. R&D covers an array of emerging sectors and macro risk factors within the debt capital markets—including sustainability, the energy transition, centralized finance, and artificial intelligence. Within R&D, we are focused on how changing risks and market dynamics will affect market participants, and provide research, insights, and data to enable decision-making with conviction.  

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