Head of Fundamental Investor Products

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop the strategic vision for Apptopia's core investor business, managing its roadmap and research initiatives.

• Identify target sectors, prioritize products, outline data needs, and define elements to avoid building.

• Clarify challenges, user profiles, success metrics, and the priority sequence for the team.

• Establish the research framework with data science, encompassing signals, inquiries, and deliverables.

• Set and implement validation standards such as growth-on-growth fit, out-of-sample testing, lead time prior to earnings, and performance relative to consensus.

• Pinpoint sectors where mobile engagement is crucial for investors, beginning with buy-side inquiries.

• Advocate for new data points, including transaction and subscription metrics, payer identification, demographic segments, and engagement groups.

• Determine what to develop from the panel versus what to license based on investment implications.

• Collaborate with data science, engineering, sales, customer success, marketing, research, and partnerships.

• Maintain regular engagement with clients through analyst calls, win/loss assessments, and churn evaluations.

• Transform customer insights into actionable roadmap decisions.

• Assess the impact of strategy and communicate performance to the executive team and board.

• Report directly to the Chief Product Officer.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in product management, showcasing a history of overseeing a product line or business rather than just individual features.

• Proven experience in setting a clear direction for team execution.

• Deep understanding of how a fundamental investor operates: model construction, reported KPIs, the significance of consensus, and the events leading up to earnings reports.

• Background in alternative data, market data, or other data products marketed to financial services, ideally encompassing both application and a raw feed or API.

• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams across research, engineering, sales, and marketing.

• Strong quantitative skills: proficiency in SQL and notebooks, the ability to interpret regressions, and differentiate predictive signals from mere correlation.

• Judiciousness regarding data integrity and the skill to discern when data can be reliably claimed.

• Experience in transforming complex data into user-friendly products for non-experts, including AI and agent-driven interfaces.

• Competence in utilizing customer and usage data to analyze behavior and enhance prioritization.

• Ability to achieve favorable negotiation outcomes efficiently while preserving relationships.

• Strong creative and analytical thinking, exceptional problem-solving abilities, and keen attention to detail.

• Please note that Apptopia is currently unable to offer visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours, location options, and paid time off.

• Life Improvement Benefit (monthly stipend for employee wellness).

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance.

• Company-sponsored 401(k) plan.

• Complimentary lunch on Fridays.