Senior Program Manager, Content Strategy, Planning & Analysis

Location: New York, London

About AlphaSense: 

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 3,500 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and India. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

Stream by AlphaSense is a searchable database of investor-led expert interviews based on one-on-one calls with former executives, customers, competitors, and channel participants across a breadth of industries. With our proprietary AI search technology, we help the leading financial institutions get up to speed about a company, market, or industry in seconds.

About the Team:

The Content organization is responsible for identifying, creating, licensing and integrating best-in-class unstructured and structured data that is both self-sourced and from third party content providers. The various Content teams report to the Chief Content Officer and have strategy, product management, operations and support responsibilities for each Content vertical. We have been experiencing a rapid growth cycle across all content sets. We value and uphold transparency, trust and accountability in our relationships within the team and with internal and external stakeholders.

About the Role: 

The Program Manager candidate we seek has experience in managing projects and programs related to various types of structured (numerical/data) and unstructured (text/documents) Financial and Industry Content, while understanding the workflows of the consumers: buy-side/sell-side, investment banking, PE/VC, corporates, consulting, and other client types.  Projects and programs will include executing on strategic content build and enhancements, product upgrades, migrations from vendor-to-vendor or self-sourced content sets,  among others.  The role will report into the Director, Content Strategy, Planning & Analysis.

This individual will have a deep understanding of what content matters to these users and will deliver on new content and related partnerships to meet those needs.

Who You Are:

• 12+ years project and program management experience in financial services at a content vendor and/or client with focus on financial and industry content required.
• A proven track record in managing large transformational global projects, and programs across a matrix resource structure, tracking status, managing RAID effectively, and resources across global matrix organization.
• Demonstrated discipline in planning, organizing and managing resources and activities to meet strategic outcomes within defined timeframe and quality standards
• Strong analytical skills, ability to report critical information and patterns from complex data, producing accurate conclusions and recommendations
• A proactive self-starter who is able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the wider team, partners of varying levels of seniority to formulate business program and structure
• A superior ability to set priorities, stay focused and meet deadlines, influential and assertive across project resources to meet deliverables in a timely manner
• Management experience of effective governance, including planning, setting agenda and ability to record accurate and concise minutes, with actions and follow up with stakeholders for timely response 
• Clearly communicate project status via tracker and dashboards regularly, for weekly and/or senior management or board level communication
• Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to understand a concept and visually present impactful insights
• Effective oral and written communication skills working with internal colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels, able to influence and guide 
• Experienced working and managing globally distributed teams and partners in different time zones
• Subject-matter expertise with content feeds, metadata, assorted document and data delivery types a plus
• Strong analytical skills, tech-savvy and outstanding attention to detail a must
• Solid Excel/Word/PowerPoint/Google Sheets/Google Docs/Google Slides experience
• Experience with different approaches to project management (e.g. Agile, Waterfall etc.) and industry level approaches and methodologies to support flexibility of execution;