Channel and Customer Research Analyst (Japanese Speaker)

About Expert Insights:

Expert Insights, which spans AlphaSense’s Expert Transcript Library and 1x1 Call Services offerings, delivers a new and transformative form of market intelligence content. Through transcripts covering thousands of companies, it captures the unfiltered views and insights of business operators in the trenches, interviewed by professional investors who drill into key questions on what’s truly important about a company at each moment in time. AlphaSense’s library of over 140,000 transcripts is the market’s largest, covering all sectors of the economy, with thousands more published each month. Expert Insights is quickly becoming a table-stakes solution for institutional investors to choose the right companies to invest in while gaining rapid adoption among all other consumers of market intelligence from sell-side research and banking, consultancies, and large corporations.

About the Team:

Working hand-in-hand with our Directed Content and 1x1 Call Services groups, this team provides timely channel checks and voice-of-customer interviews that reveal real-time demand signals, competitive dynamics, and purchasing behavior across priority industry verticals. By identifying the right operator, distributor, or end-customer profiles—and engaging them at the optimal moment in the quarter—we help investors surface differentiated, actionable insights.

About the Role:

Analysts are the execution engine for our Channel and Customer Research offering. You will:

• Map the expert universe for assigned verticals

• Source and vet high-value channel partners and customers

• Build long-term relationships with key channel sources

• Coordinate and monitor interviews

This role blends investigative research, stakeholder management, and rapid-fire project execution—perfect for early-career professionals eager to accelerate their learning curve inside a high-growth, data-driven organization.

Who You Are:

• Inquisitive: You are naturally interested in learning and quickly see patterns that help you to identify the best possible experts for a given research project

• Energetic: You have a proven ability to manage fast turnaround projects, meet deadlines and targets

• Organized: You have demonstrated an ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously

• Detail Oriented: You have a strong attention detail, with the ability to discern and precisely document the core elements of an expert’s relevant skills or experience vis-a-vis a defined scope

• Excellent Communicator: You’ll regularly be engaging with industry experts to learn about their background and convey what it means to participate in our network

• Goal Oriented: You are motivated by the idea of identifying and delivering the best-possible expert profiles to our Client Contributors for each project scope quickly and efficiently

What You’ll Do:

• Landscape Research: Develop and maintain target lists of distributors, resellers, customers, and other market participants aligned to quarterly coverage priorities.

• Expert Sourcing & Outreach: Drive email, phone, and LinkedIn campaigns to recruit best-fit experts; negotiate honoraria that balance insight value with cost discipline.

• Screening & Onboarding: Conduct vetting calls to confirm role, recency, and perspective; ensure compliance with AlphaSense and client guidelines.

• Interview Guide Creation: Build and maintain interview guides targeted to each type of call, industry sector, and expert profile - ensuring the best and most relevant insights are captured.

• Interview Facilitation: Schedule sessions at optimal times in the sell-side calendar; monitor calls, troubleshoot tech issues, and capture real-time highlights.

• Quality & Compliance: Uphold rigorous data-privacy standards and maintain accurate records in internal CRM and workflow tools.

• Continuous Improvement: Share feedback on talk tracks, sourcing tactics, and emerging themes to refine our playbooks and coverage roadmap.