Senior Equity Research Analyst, AI Platform

Versant Media

$200K — $235K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of buy-side public markets investing experience focused on fundamental analysis.
  • Demonstrated contribution to a process-driven strategy at a successful buy-side firm.
  • Experience with LLM workflows in equity research, including extraction and error analysis.
  • Proficient in programming or data handling with practical applications in automated equity analysis.
  • Strong analytical thinker capable of developing systematic investment strategies.
  • Multi-sector experience in independent fundamental research driving investment decisions.
  • Solid understanding of forensic accounting and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

  • Convert equity research insights into features for AI equity research platform.
  • Design and evaluate LLM workflows for processing unstructured data into metrics.
  • Develop sector-based factor models blending fundamental and quantitative approaches.
  • Oversee alignment of stock-picking models to enhance retail investor opportunities.
  • Collaborate with Engineering to implement data pipelines and evaluate analysis features.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with 3 days in the office.
  • Access to onsite fitness center and daily group classes.
  • Gourmet cafeteria with daily special meals and salad bars.
  • Convenience services such as dry cleaning and shoe shining.
  • Free shuttle service to multiple locations in Manhattan and nearby areas.
  • Opportunities for significant career growth and influence on product evolution within CNBC.
Full Job Description
Job Description

StockStory, a newly acquired part of CNBC, is building the next generation of AI-powered equity research for individual investors. We continue operating like a startup: small team, high ownership, fast decisions, direct access to leadership, and a culture focused on building rather than managing.

Our mission is to help millions of investors achieve better results in the markets. This is your chance to work at the intersection of investing, AI, and product, alongside other exceptional engineers and investors, and help define what modern equity research looks like.

We're looking for a highly driven and intellectually curious equity analyst to join our team to build a new generation of AI-powered equity research. You will be working on a small, high-caliber team that brings together top-tier engineering, product, and buy-side talent, including senior analysts with prior experience at firms such as Millennium, Point72, and KKR.

This role is designed for investors who still want to apply and sharpen their fundamental research judgment, but who are more excited by building scalable systems than by repeating the same research process company by company, quarter after quarter. It is especially well suited to people who want to future-proof their investing career by learning how great equity analysis gets translated into software, models, and AI-enabled products.

You will be instrumental to the team that builds and operates core components of our AI equity research engine: LLM workflows that convert unstructured information into structured signals, and factor models that turn those signals into consistent, scalable outputs for individual investors.

This role sits within a small and growing, high-caliber unit where team leaders boast Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and Investment Banking experience. Team members are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and autonomy, contributing directly to core research, product, and modeling decisions while working closely with engineering and senior leadership in a highly collaborative, low-bureaucracy environment with direct access to decision-makers.

What You'll Do:
• Convert equity research insights and conclusions into scalable AI equity research platform features that help individual investors with stock discovery, research, and selection
• Design and evaluate LLM-based workflows to process unstructured data, analyze it and translate it into structured metrics and factors
• Develop and evaluate performance of sector-based factor models using a combination of traditional fundamental research, statistical techniques, and quantitative factor design
• Oversee stock-picking models alignment to surface the best opportunities to a large retail investor audience and produce structured reports supporting them
• Partner with Engineering to implement pipelines (APIs, DAGs, databases), establish reproducible back tests/evaluations, and ship analysis features/capabilities

What We're Looking For:
• Minimum of 4 years of buy-side public markets investing experience (hedge fund, long-only fund, family office, or endowment), with a focus on long-term, fundamental analysis.
• Experience contributing to a rigorous, process-driven strategy at a successful buy-side firm, including involvement in idea generation, research, and portfolio analysis
• Practical LLM workflow experience in equity research workflows (prompt/context engineering; structured extraction; error analysis)
• Experience programming, coding or working with data. You will closely collaborate with the Engineering team to design and build automated equity analysis features blending LLM-based agentic and quantamental approaches, leveraging a modern and evolving technology stack that is being actively expanded
• Systemic, data driven thinker with the ability to translate fundamental research into a repeatable, systematic strategy, with a strong bias toward building scalable solutions rather than one-off outputs
• Multi-sector experience and proven ability to independently perform fundamental research across sectors that has driven long-term investment decisions
• Strong forensic accounting knowledge, experience building three-statements and sector-wide models

Qualifications

What We're Looking For:
• Minimum of 4 years of buy-side public markets investing experience (hedge fund, long-only fund, family office, or endowment), with a focus on long-term, fundamental analysis.
• Experience contributing to a rigorous, process-driven strategy at a successful buy-side firm, including involvement in idea generation, research, and portfolio analysis
• Practical LLM workflow experience in equity research workflows (prompt/context engineering; structured extraction; error analysis)
• Experience programming, coding or working with data. You will closely collaborate with the Engineering team to design and build automated equity analysis features blending LLM-based agentic and quantamental approaches, leveraging a modern and evolving technology stack that is being actively expanded
• Systemic, data driven thinker with the ability to translate fundamental research into a repeatable, systematic strategy, with a strong bias toward building scalable solutions rather than one-off outputs
• Multi-sector experience and proven ability to independently perform fundamental research across sectors that has driven long-term investment decisions
• Strong forensic accounting knowledge, experience building three-statements and sector-wide models

Location & Perks:

Hybrid 3 days in office
At CNBC Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, you'll have access to great perks and amenities:
• Sweat it out -- Free onsite fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment, plus daily group classes
• Eat up -- Gourmet cafeteria with daily specials plus soup and salad bars
• Extras -- Dry cleaning, shoe shining and sneak peeks
• Don't have a car? No problem! We offer free shuttle transportation to and from multiple locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey City

In addition to these benefits, employees in this group will be joining at a time of meaningful and continued investment in data, technology, and product development, with the opportunity to contribute to a growing team within CNBC that is expected to scale significantly over time, offering meaningful exposure to senior leadership and the ability to influence how the platform evolves.

Salary Range: $200,000-$235,000, bonus eligible, plus RSU's

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.

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