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About the Role

AlphaSense is seeking a Head of Strategic Initiatives to lead and scale high-impact, cross-functional growth strategies, with a core focus on driving international expansion efforts. This senior-level role has enterprise-wide visibility and influence, directly responsible for shaping and executing the company’s global footprint and ensuring sustained success in new and emerging markets. The role also supports strategic priorities such as go-to-market innovation, new product commercialization, segment and persona optimization, and M&A integration, ensuring these initiatives deliver maximum value across global markets. This role is ideal for a bold, thoughtful, and highly strategic operator who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and brings a global mindset to problem solving and execution.

Responsibilities

Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of AlphaSense’s entry and growth in Europe and APAC.
Identify priority markets, establish scalable go-to-market and operational models, and align executive stakeholders to expansion goals.
Ensure AlphaSense operates as one business in our global markets, creating coherence across segments, functions, and geographies.
Identify what it takes for AlphaSense to win in each market and work cross-functionally to ensure a differentiated, high-impact solution.
Bring strategic rigor and market insight to critical decisions, with a focus on international growth.
Shape AlphaSense’s long-term success by contributing to high-impact decisions spanning product, go-to-market, and operational strategy.
Act as a connective force across senior GTM leadership in EMEA and APAC, ensuring AlphaSense operates as one business across international markets.
Drive strategic initiatives that directly support regional revenue goals and long-term market success.
Define success metrics, build tracking and reporting frameworks, and implement regular business reviews.
Influence how AlphaSense scales globally by helping shape org design, operational processes, and commercial models.

Requirements

Proven ability to lead large-scale strategic programs, particularly around international growth and market entry across EMEA and/or APAC.
Understanding of how to navigate regulatory landscapes, local buyer behavior, competitive dynamics, and operational complexity in diverse global regions.
Ability to move from strategy to execution, owning end-to-end delivery of major initiatives.
Comfort influencing C-level stakeholders to align resources and priorities.
Ability to synthesize complexity, distill insight from data, and communicate clearly and persuasively to senior internal audiences.
Excel at aligning teams and driving accountability across functions within matrixed organizations.
Ability to lead without explicit authority, creating a shared sense of purpose and momentum.
Deep understanding of customer base and ability to build strategy grounded in buyer insight, user behavior, and evolving market needs.
Ability to identify how market dynamics differ across local markets.
Energized by fast-moving environments and skilled at finding clarity and opportunity in evolving situations.
Resourceful, action-oriented, and skilled at driving momentum even without a perfectly defined path.
Understanding of the financial implications of strategic bets.
Fluent in building business cases, running scenario models, and presenting clear investment recommendations.

Skills

Global Strategy
International Growth
Market Entry
Go-to-Market Strategy
Operational Models
Executive Stakeholder Alignment
Platform-Market Fit
Strategic Advising
Cross-Functional Leadership
KPI Definition
Operational Cadence
Business Case Development
Scenario Modeling
Investment Recommendations

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior-level

About the Company

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making.
Market intelligence and search built on proven AI deliver insights that matter from content you can trust.
Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.
The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence.
Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets.
Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.
Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland.

Equal Opportunity

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer.
We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals.
All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity.
AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor.
This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.
In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.