Job Title: Director of Investor Relations.
Location: Hoboken, NJ
Department: Tomorrow
Reports To: Yuping Huang
Responsibilities
Internal Investor Relations will work to ensure the company is appropriately and
strategically positioned with analysts, investors, and all stakeholders. This position
supports the CEO and CFO in crafting the company’s IR narrative regarding financial
results and strategic initiatives and communicating this narrative to external
stakeholders, as well as partners closely with the Marketing & Communications teams
to dovetail with the overall QCi digital marketing strategy. This role will also support
various analyses and serve as an analytical and strategic business partner throughout
the organization.
This role will report to CEO, while working closely with CFO and Director of Marketing
and Communications.
Duties
Manage external IR resources
IR Team’s key initiative to clearly articulate QCi’s priorities, goals, strategic plans,
roadmap, investment, capital allocation, and financial performance to all key
stakeholders.
Work with the leadership team to refine and implement the company’s overall IR
strategy, including creation/modification of QCi’s financial communications
narrative, external and internal messaging, scheduling of events
(i.e. conferences, NDRs, analyst/investor days), ensuring all communications are
integrated and consistent.
Assist in the development of investor communications, including press releases,
presentations, and conference call scripts. Collaborate with the Accounting &
Finance and Legal teams on SEC filings, including quarterly and annual reports.
Ensure consistency and alignment of the company’s messaging and
participation on quarterly earnings calls, investment conference calls and
meetings, roadshows, analyst days, one-on-one meetings, and other speaking
venues.
Prepare analyst/investor Q&A documents that address key financial, business,
and competitive topics.
Coordinate with the internal Marketing & Communications team, as well as
external public relations and communications professionals, to support efficient
and effective dissemination of QCi’s strategy and message.
Develop investor messaging/marketing communication in alignment with QCi’s
business model and strategy. Collaborate with the Accounting & Finance teams
to derive financial analyses related to framing the company’s financial metrics for
the purpose of communicating with analysts/investors.
Serve as an interface and develop deep working relationships with both sell-side
analysts and buy-side investors, and drive appropriate interaction and
communication with all existing and potential stakeholders.
Provide external audiences with an accurate and timely view of QCi’s
performance and prospects, which will be executed through shareholder
meetings, regular and ad-hoc meetings, conference calls with analysts/investors,
website content and other electronic means, and other telephone and personal
contacts.
Liaise with senior leadership and other business managers to direct the
positioning of the company’s financial reporting messages, including the annual
report, quarterly filings, and other shareholder materials.
Present and articulate the analyst/investor point of view to senior leadership,
and make recommendations for communications and strategy as necessary
and appropriate.
Actively monitor announcements from peers and key partners to analyze and
highlight financial results, forecasts, competitive trends, and latest dynamics
within the Quantum, Photonics, Semiconductor industries.
Gather intelligence and information about the broader marketplace to inform and
educate QCi’s senior leadership regarding the near-term and long-term dynamics
of the capital markets, providing insight on the potential impact of market forces
on the company’s business.
Measure the effectiveness of the company’s IR program through the quality and
accuracy of external analyst research and earnings estimates, trends of analyst
coverage, trends of institutional ownership, and value relative to industry peers
and the market overall.
Qualifications
Master’s Degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other relevant
fields
Depth of experience in Sellside/buyside Equity Research and relationship with
equity capital markets teams at investment banks
Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills
Strong modeling and financial analysis skills, including forecasting and valuation
Significant attention to detail
Strategic, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Ability to multi-task with a sense of urgency while maintaining strong attention to
detail
Experience in quantum, photonics, semi industries is a bonus