Cap Equity Strategy Associate Analyst

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• The Associate Analyst will provide fundamental research support to the Portfolio Manager and team of T. Rowe Price’s Small-Cap Growth Equity Strategy, including the New Horizons Fund, one of the firm’s flagship funds and the oldest small-cap growth fund in America.
• This is a generalist role that spans all sectors across both public and private markets. The Associate Analyst will report to the Head of the Associate Analyst Program, work with the team’s Associate Analyst and Portfolio Managers, and will be responsible for: new idea generation, running analysis on the fund and fund holdings, diligence and executing private investments, and other ad-hoc assignments related to the fund.
• The fund focuses on long-term oriented, non-linear outcomes in emerging technologies (examples include AI hardware and applications, robotics, the application of AI in biotechnology/material sciences/commerce and understanding how existing companies can improve from new technologies). The candidate should have a high level of creativity and an interest in understanding the underlying technology and industries of the portfolio holdings in-depth.
• Beyond traditional fundamental research, the Associate Analyst will help design and build AI-enabled tools that streamline and scale the team’s investment process. The team views this as a core part of its edge and one that rewards creativity and thoughtful design as much as technical skill. This will be one of the main responsibilities of the role and candidates are expected to have experience building AI-enabled tools/projects and have a design thinking orientation.
• The Associate Analyst program is a three-to-five-year structured program that offers ongoing training and mentoring and is designed to develop future fundamental investment analysts.
• Competitive compensation with significant upside potential for high performers.
• Exceptional performers have the potential to be promoted to Investment Analyst.

• Generate new investment ideas across the strategy’s investment universe and complete industrials analyses on emerging trends. Strong work ethic and the abilities to balance multiple projects is required.
• Build industry and market-share models to understand industry structure, addressable market size, and unit economics.
• Help design and build AI-enabled tools and workflows that streamline and scale the team’s investment process, partnering with the firm’s data and technology teams as needed. Strong candidates will be able to take the tools the strategy currently uses and be able to innovate and improve on this work.
• Own the team’s alternative data effort, including designing and running surveys, organizing channel checks/expert networks, procuring new data sources, and maintaining regular summaries and prioritizing data signals.
• Support the ongoing monitoring of portfolio holdings, including evaluating earnings and company updates against the team’s framework, maintaining focused models tailored to the fund’s fundamental thesis, and attending company meetings and sell-side/industry events.
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