Equity Research Analyst, AI Platform

Compensation: USD 130,000 - USD 170,000 - yearly Company Description VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry‑changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass. Job Description We’re looking for a highly driven and intellectually curious equity analyst to join our team to build a new generation of AI‑powered equity research. This role is designed for investors who still want to apply and sharpen their fundamental research judgment, but who are more excited by building scalable systems than by repeating the same research process company by company, quarter after quarter. It is especially well suited to people who want to future‑prove their investing career by learning how great equity analysis gets translated into software, models, and AI‑enabled products. You will be instrumental to the team that builds and operates core components of our AI equity research engine: LLM workflows that convert unstructured information into structured signals, and factor models that turn those signals into consistent, scalable outputs for individual investors. This role sits within a small and growing, high‑caliber unit where team leaders boast Hedge Fund, Private Equity, and Investment Banking experience. Team members are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and autonomy, contributing directly to core research, product, and modeling decisions while working closely with engineering and senior leadership in a highly collaborative, low‑bureaucracy environment with direct access to decision‑makers. Qualifications 2+ years of buy‑side public markets investing experience, at a hedge fund, long‑only fund, family office, or endowment fund that emphasizes long‑term investment horizons and independent, fundamental analysis. Experience and interest in prompt design and context engineering for LLM‑based equity research workflows, and some programming or coding experience. Experience programming, coding, or working with data. Will closely collaborate with the Engineering team to design and build automated equity analysis features blending LLM‑based agentic and quantamental approaches, leveraging a modern and evolving technology stack that is being actively expanded. Systemic, data‑driven thinker with the ability to productize fundamental research into a repeatable, systematic strategy and a desire to “build the machine that does the job.” Experience contributing to long‑term investment theses for a sector or single equity supported by qualitative and quantitative factors. Ability to read financial statements, solid accounting knowledge, experience building three‑statement models. What You'll Do Collaborate to convert equity research insights and conclusions into scalable AI equity research platform features that help individual investors with stock discovery, research, and selection. Design and evaluate LLM‑based workflows to process unstructured data, analyze and translate it into structured metrics and factors. Support the development and evaluation of performance of sector‑based factor models using a combination of traditional fundamental research, statistical techniques, and quantitative factor design. Conduct deep research and initiate coverage on public equities across industries. Contribute to stock‑picking models that surface the best opportunities to a large retail investor audience and produce structured reports supporting them. Partner with Engineering to implement pipelines (APIs, DAGs, databases), establish reproducible backtests/evaluations, and ship analysis features/capabilities. Location & Perks At CNBC Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, you’ll have access to great perks and amenities: Free onsite fitness center with state‑of‑the‑art equipment, plus daily group classes. Gourmet cafeteria with daily specials plus soup and salad bars. Extras – dry cleaning, shoe shining and sneak peeks. Free shuttle transportation to and from multiple locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey City. In addition to these benefits, employees in this group will be joining at a time of meaningful and continued investment in data, technology, and product development, with the opportunity to contribute to a growing team within CNBC that is expected to scale significantly over time, offering meaningful exposure to senior leadership and the ability to influence how the platform evolves. Compensation Salary Range: $130,000 – $170,000. Bonus eligible. Equal Opportunity Statement VERSANT Media is committed to equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Versant Media