Director of Quantitative Research, New Product Development

About: Morningstar Indexes Team leverages its expertise in credit research, equity research, manager research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction to create innovative investment solutions. We use Morningstar’s intellectual property to create indexes that empower investors to achieve their goals at every stage of the investment process - market monitoring, benchmarking, and asset allocation. Morningstar Indexes offers a broad suite of global equity, bond and asset allocation indexes. Role: As Director of Quantitative Research, you will play a pivotal leadership role within Morningstar Indexes, driving the conception, research, and launch of innovative index solutions across equity, fixed income, private securities, multi asset, and thematic strategies. As a senior member of the New Product Development team, you will lead a team of quantitative analysts responsible for the end to end index development lifecycle, including ideation, investment thesis formulation, data acquisition and processing, index design, rigorous back testing, client consultation, and production implementation. This role combines deep quantitative expertise, people leadership, and strategic product ownership. You will shape Morningstar’s new index roadmap, mentor and develop senior quantitative talent, and partner closely with Product, Commercial, Technology, and senior stakeholders globally to translate investment insights and Morningstar intellectual property into scalable, investable, and client relevant index solutions. Operating in a fast growing, dynamic environment, you will oversee multiple concurrent initiatives and ensure the delivery of institutional grade index products. This position is based in our Mumbai office.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership . Product Ownership

Quantitative Research . Index Design

People . Culture

Stakeholder . Thought Leadership

Requirements:

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

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