Applied Equity Researcher – Client Engagement Specialist

Your Team Responsibilities

The Equity Investing R&D team partners directly with clients - including asset managers, hedge funds, asset owners, and wealth managers - to design and develop innovative equity factor models that address real-world investment challenges. Our research enhances transparency in equity markets but also to ensure clients can apply model insights to improve decision-making and achieve measurable business outcomes.

We work closely with product management and client coverage teams to shape the Analytics business vision and strategy, ensuring that our research remains aligned with client needs and commercial priorities.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to understand their strategic objectives, investment challenges, and decision-making processes. Effectively communicate the benefits of MSCI’s research and models to diverse audiences. Demonstrate both comfort with high-level communication and an absolute command of details.
• Research and implement equity factor models using advanced data science, artificial intelligence, and financial theory, with an emphasis on real-world applications and measurable impact.
• Collaborate across research, product management and client coverage teams to align innovation with client and market opportunities.
• Translate complex research into actionable insights, address investment challenges, and build trusted client relationships that drive business growth.
• Demonstrate thought leadership through innovative research, publications, and external presentations that strengthen MSCI’s role as a trusted advisor.

Your Skills And Experience That Will Help You Excel

• Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical results into clear, business-relevant insights for non-technical audiences, and to partner with senior stakeholders and influence client decision-making.
• Strong quantitative foundations (Finance, Econometrics, Optimization, Data Science, or Machine Learning) paired with a commercial and client-first mindset.
• Experience in empirical modeling and data analysis, with meticulous attention to detail, and a proven track record of driving and delivering research projects.
• Experience in engaging with investment teams at asset managers, hedge funds or asset owners, and the ability to connect research to portfolio and business outcomes.
• Advanced degree (Masters/PhD) in a quantitative discipline with expertise in Finance, Econometrics, Optimization, Data Science, and/or Machine Learning.
• Production-level coding skills in Python or similar language.

About MSCI What we offer you

• Salary range: $172,000- $224,000/ year plus eligible for annual bonus
• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.
• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.
• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.
• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.
• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.
• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.
• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our purpose – to power better investment decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email Disability.Assistance@msci.com and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.

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