Specific duties of the position include: Continually monitor and analyze the financial markets as well as the industry competitive landscape to provide research and perspectives to clients and prospects; use strong investment merits to enhance the product positioning of SPDR ETF family of ETFs, with a deep understanding of active, indexed, and quantitative investment strategies; generate investment content (i.e., articles, whitepapers) for a wide breadth of investors and asset class topics that helps to educate our clients and promote ETFs relative to other investment vehicles; articulate in-depth investment processes in written or verbal forms to current as well as prospective clients; represent the Global ETF Research Strategist team as the subject matter expert on new product launches; develop and sustain strong working partnerships with our marketing, capital market, product and investment teams; and pursue client-facing opportunities to promote their work and insights, including at conferences where applicable. Must have: Current securities licenses (Series 7 and Series 63) or demonstrated ability to obtain these licenses by demonstrated solid ability with Investment concepts (including quantitative equity factor analysis, macroeconomic sensitivity, options pricing, and portfolio construction and optimization) and Investment securities (including Global equities, Options and other listed derivatives, ETFs and Mutual funds); clean compliance and U4 record required; knowledge of Bloomberg, FactSet and Morningstar Direct; knowledge of all asset classes and portfolio construction; competency with portfolio optimization processes; critical understanding of financial theory and empirical research; in-depth knowledge of ETFs and competing investment vehicles; ability to work with and influence internal and external stakeholders; positive, collaborative attitude with a strong team orientation; strong communications skills for frequent external and internal presentations.