Morningstar India
Morningstar India | Senior Quantitative Research Manager, New Product Development
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Job Highlights
Responsibilities
- As a senior member of the New Product Development team, you will lead and inspire quantitative analysts who turn bold ideas into indexes - from investment thesis and back-testing to launch - while championing AI-first, research-led ways of working and mentoring the team.
- Why this role is exciting: Build, experiment, and scale new ideas with a talented team - using AI and quant research to create products that reach investors worldwide.
- Lead a team of quant analysts to build and launch benchmark, thematic, factor, strategic beta, and multi-asset indexes from concept to market.
- Own the full index life cycle - spot opportunities, test signals, run back-tests, shape methodology, and launch.
- Apply quant techniques, machine learning, and risk analytics to turn investment ideas into rules-based methodologies.
- Push the use of AI, coding assistants, and agentic workflows to automate research and speed up product development - and coach the team to do the same.
- Nurture a vibrant R&D culture, collaborating with Morningstar’s research teams and building tools, white papers, and client-ready stories that make complex ideas exciting.
Requirements
- 8+ years at an index provider, asset manager, investment bank, or fintech/systematic investing firm, with index development and portfolio construction expertise.
- Strong quant toolkit (factor research, back-testing, risk analytics), knowledge of institutional investing and index construction, and coding skills in Python, R, SQL, MATLAB, or similar.
- Excited by AI-first ways of working, with experience using Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Gemini, or ChatGPT; AI agents/RAG exposure is a plus.
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or financial discipline, or engineering; CFA, MBA, or graduate degree helpful.
- Experience leading projects or mentoring a research team; clear, engaging communicator; published research is a plus.
- A bonus: ESG data and index design expertise, or familiarity with basket design for Structured Products.
About the company
Morningstar
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research and data, headquartered in Chicago and operating through subsidiaries in more than 30 countries with over 40 offices worldwide. It serves individual investors, financial advisers and wealth managers, asset managers, retirement plan providers and institutional investors with data, analytics and research (Morningstar Direct, Morningstar Investor, PitchBook for private markets, Sustainalytics for ESG research), credit ratings through Morningstar DBRS, Morningstar Indexes, and investment management and retirement services.
Morningstar India Private Limited, based in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, is a major data, research, technology and operations centre for the group — Morningstar counts India as one of its four regions alongside the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific — and has been certified as a Great Place to Work for ten consecutive years. Its Mumbai teams work in managed-investment and equity data, equity and manager research, index management and operations, credit and ESG research, product development, client service and corporate finance — work that suits CA, CFA, MBA (Finance), M.Com and B.Com profiles as well as quantitative and research specialists.
