What We're Looking For:
- Basic Required Qualifications
- Location & Travel
This role is based in New York. Given the global, client-facing nature of this role, regular travel should be expected to support client meetings, industry events, and regional team engagement.
Background and Experience
15+ years of progressive experience developing and executing market growth, market development, or commercial strategies within financial services, asset management, index solutions, exchanges, ETFs, wealth management, institutional investing, or capital markets.
Experience owning revenue or P&L targets, with direct accountability for commercial outcomes.
Experience building B2B2B distribution models, with a clear grasp of how a component provider creates demand through a client's distribution force.
Experience working across multiple geographies or leading region-specific market development initiatives in a global, matrixed environment.
Domain Expertise
Deep understanding of passive investing, index construction, ETFs, benchmarks, asset allocation, institutional investment processes, and the broader index ecosystem.
Relationship-Building and Communication
Proven ability to build trusted senior relationships with clients, exchanges, asset managers, ETF issuers, financial intermediaries, consultants, industry bodies, and associations as well as key internal stakeholders.
Strong executive presence with experience representing an organization in client meetings, conferences, roundtables, webinars, and other public or senior-level forums.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate complex market and investment concepts into clear, persuasive narratives for varied audiences.
Analytical Rigor and ROI Accountability
Analytical capability to interpret and act on market data, market share trends, investor behavior, competitor activity, and regional market dynamics.
Strong judgment in aligning research output with commercial impact without compromising its credibility.
Demonstrated ability to connect marketing and thought leadership to revenue and to defend that connection with evidence.
Proven track record of securing senior leadership or Board-level buy-in for commercial investments by presenting clear, evidence-based ROI narratives.
Cross-Functional Influence and Leadership
Demonstrated success influencing across commercial, product, research, marketing, communications, analytics, legal, compliance, and regional leadership teams.
Fluency in applying AI to commercial and research workflows.
Track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
Experience leading teams directly or through a matrixed structure.
Right to Work Requirements:
This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
We require all external candidates who reach the final stage of our interview process to attend at least one in-person interview, which is ordinarily at your nearest S&P Global office. This must be completed before we can proceed to an offer.
About S&P Global Dow Jones Indic e s
At S&P Dow Jones Indices, we provide iconic and innovative index solutions backed by unparalleled expertise across the asset-class spectrum. By bringing transparency to the global capital markets, we empower investors everywhere to make decisions with conviction. We’re the largest global resource for index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500 ® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ® .
More assets are invested in products based upon our indices than any other index provider in the world. With over USD 7.4 trillion in passively managed assets linked to our indices and over USD 11.3 trillion benchmarked to our indices, our solutions are widely considered indispensable in tracking market performance, evaluating portfolios and developing investment strategies.
S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/spdji .
What’s In It For You?
Our Mission:
Advancing Essential Intelligence.
Our People:
We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all.From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in.
We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.
Our Values:
Integrity, Discovery, Partnership
Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.
