About the Role
Guidepoint is seeking an entrepreneurial and outgoing individual to join its Insights business, offering teleconferences, surveys, and in-person events to institutional investment and corporate clients. The product features experts from Guidepoint’s global network and is hosted by former investment professionals and industry experts.
Responsibilities
- Promote and represent the Guidepoint Insights product to institutional clients including traditional asset managers, hedge funds, family offices and private equity firms.
- Increase penetration and usage of the Insights product across Guidepoint's existing client base.
- Highlight upcoming events to appropriate clients and foster dialogue with Guidepoint sector specialists using a high-touch approach (phone, email, Bloomberg, in-person meetings).
- Map client preferences (sector focus, frequency of email notifications) across organizations to ensure the right content is delivered to the right individuals.
- Form critical relationships with Portfolio Managers and Analysts to understand their research needs, collect feedback and explain our value proposition.
- Conduct outbound prospecting to help generate new account leads.
- Work closely with Guidepoint’s analysts to understand key upcoming events and summarize takeaways from recent teleconferences.
Requirements
- Excellent communicator capable of calling on high-profile clients at hedge funds, mutual funds and private equity.
- Broad based knowledge of the sales process from lead generation to relationship management.
- Comprehensive understanding of the institutional investment process.
- Strong relationship building skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented entrepreneurial environment.
- Meticulous organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently and handle increasing responsibility over time.
- Minimum of 3 years of institutional sales, business development or account management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree.
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum of 3 years of institutional sales, business development or account management experience.
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree.
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 to $150,000 USD
Benefits
- 15 PTO days, 10 legal holidays, and sick days
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- 401(k) match up to 10% of employee contribution
- Life insurance
- Parental leave plans
- Commuter benefits
- Corporate gym rate
- Development opportunities through the LinkedIn Learning platform
- Free snacks and beverages in the office
- Friday happy hour and “Summer Fridays”
- Year-round corporate athletic league
- Casual work environment, team building, and other social events
- Eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on performance.
About the Company
- Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process.
- Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action.
- Backed by a network of nearly 1.75 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,600 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request.
- With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful.
- At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience.
