Lead Data Strategist
Point72
$185,000 - $225,000 / year
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Description
A Career with Point72's Strategy Team
The Strategy team is a multidisciplinary group that partners directly with the firm's businesses to identify, design, and lead value-creating strategic business initiatives. We enable the development of new businesses, engage in special projects, and support the firm's strategic planning process. We also source, negotiate, and manage the firm's data assets, building a unified foundation that supports our investment professionals and the firm's growing data and AI ambitions.
What you'll do
- Shape the firm’s data strategy by identifying differentiated data and research sources that can inform investment decision-making.
- Lead evaluations of new data ecosystems, translating market developments into actionable sourcing opportunities for research and investment teams.
- Manage strategic relationships with external data and research providers, ensuring service quality, contract alignment, and continued relevance to investment needs.
- Partner with investment professionals to understand research priorities, assess content requirements, and connect teams with high-value data resources.
- Coordinate onboarding for new content providers by aligning stakeholders, negotiating business terms, and guiding approvals through completion.
- Collaborate with Compliance and internal partners to evaluate new providers and support ongoing oversight of existing relationships.
- Monitor the evolving data market to identify emerging providers, pricing trends, and innovative research capabilities.
- Field questions and requests from investment teams, resolving issues and helping users navigate available data and research services.
- Guide team members by sharing market knowledge, reinforcing quality standards, and supporting consistent execution across sourcing workflows.
What's required
- 4-6 years of experience in alternative data, financial services, or a related data strategy role.
- Bachelor's degree with strong academic performance.
- Experience negotiating contract terms, commercial terms, and pricing for data or research services.
- Strong understanding of data and research provider ecosystems relevant to investment or financial services teams.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain data opportunities and provider considerations.
- High attention to detail and a consistent commitment to producing high-quality work.
- Strong problem-solving and creative thinking skills applied to sourcing, evaluation, and relationship-management challenges.
- Ability to work closely and effectively across our investment, research, compliance, legal, and finance teams.
- Leadership skills and the ability to guide team members through complex workflows and stakeholder interactions.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
We take care of our people
We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. When you work here, we provide:
- Fully-paid health care benefits
- Generous parental and family leave policies
- Volunteer opportunities
- Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, people of color and the LGBT+ community
- Mental and physical wellness programs
- Tuition assistance
- A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more
About Point72
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry's brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people's long-term growth. For more information, visit https://point72.com/.
The annual base salary range for this role is $185,000-$225,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- tuition reimbursement
- bonus
About this role
Point72's Strategy team is seeking a Lead Data Strategist to own the firm's data sourcing and provider relationships—a role that sits at the intersection of investment needs and market intelligence. You'll identify and evaluate alternative data sources that can differentiate the firm's research capabilities, negotiate contracts with external providers, and ensure these relationships deliver ongoing value to investment professionals. This requires both strategic thinking about emerging data ecosystems and hands-on execution managing provider onboarding, compliance reviews, and stakeholder alignment across investment, research, and legal teams.
The ideal candidate brings 4-6 years in alternative data, financial services, or data strategy, with proven experience negotiating commercial terms and a solid grasp of how data and research providers serve investment firms. You'll need strong communication skills to translate market opportunities into business priorities, attention to detail in managing complex workflows, and the leadership capability to guide team members through sourcing challenges. This is a contract role based in New York City, offering a salary range of $185,000–$225,000 plus discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits including fully-paid health care, parental leave, wellness programs, and tuition assistance.
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