Research Associate, Company Taxonomy

In just a little over a decade, PitchBook has grown into a global organization with offices in Seattle, San Francisco, New York and London. With consistent high double-digit growth since 2009, the company has become the industry’s leading source of private market data, serving more than 3,000 clients around the world.

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Job Overview

Are you a naturally inquisitive person who enjoys digging into the details? Are you looking for a role where you can make an impact, gain product operational experience, and join a rapidly growing company that has opportunities at the next level for high performers across several departments? If so, we'd love to talk!

We are looking for Research Associates to categorize data on the private capital markets, improve data collection operations, and provide quality checks of existing data. The focus of the role will be on company taxonomy, which is the classification of companies into market spaces using descriptive text, tagging and structural categorization. You will be responsible for conducting research on new investment spaces (e.g. Regulatory Technology, Quantum Computing, Cannabis), building taxonomies, analyzing and creating written reports, and ensuring high quality research for all taxonomies on the platform. Once ramped, you will work with your team to improve processes, tools, and methodologies by identifying new improvement areas and devising solutions to existing ones.

Nearly everyone in Research starts as a Research Associate. This development approach creates a pathway for our Research Associates to grow into Senior Research Associates, Team Leads and Research Managers within a specific dataset team in the Research department, or to transition to a variety of roles on other teams at PitchBook.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience evaluating both quantitative and qualitative datasets
• Strong academic writing ability is required. Must be able to synthesize large volumes of information into concise, informative reports
• 1 - 2 years of professional work experience, which could be in the form of an internship
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite, especially Excel, is desired
• Experience with SQL is a plus

You may be the right candidate if you have:

• A high attention to detail
• Intellectual curiosity: you get excited about learning new things (especially pertaining to business, finance, and current events) and diving deep into the details comes naturally to you
• The ability to work independently with minimal assistance or instruction for long stretches of time
• Comfort in taking the initiative to formulate and pilot new ideas, experiment with unproven projects, and test hypotheses that may eventually fail
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills: you are able to effectively communicate and work with internal and external stakeholders, offshore teams, and leadership both in person and through email
• The ability to prioritize and plan your time to suit your goals and the teams needs
• Experience or interest in learning about the private equity, venture capital and M&A industries

About PitchBook Research

The Research team is one of the largest and most important teams at PitchBook Data, totaling over three hundred people across three continents. It is responsible for the core of what we do as a company: delivering high quality data on the private markets. This is done through our various data collection processes consisting of web-based data scraping, entering of data from publicly available documents, web researching of hard-to-find information, and direct communication with executives/investors/advisors involved in transactions and fundraising. We also believe in making our department a fun and inviting place to be, and our traditions such as baked good Mondays, potluck breakfast Fridays and monthly team outings keep us happy (and full).

Company Overview

At PitchBook, we provide transparency into the capital markets by organizing the world’s meaningful business information and making it useful to our customers. We work tirelessly to arm global professionals with comprehensive data on the entire venture capital, private equity and M&A landscape—including companies, investors, funds, investments, exits and people—so they can discover and execute opportunities with confidence. Our data and analysis are available through our award-winning flagship product, the PitchBook Platform, as well as our powerful suite of integrated tools, industry news and in-depth reports.

If you are ready to start the conversation about how you might contribute to all the happenings at PitchBook, submit your resume today! PitchBook appreciates and respects diversity, and as such, we are an equal opportunity employer.