About Aarden

Research Associate

Land is the most valuable, yet one of the least transparent, asset classes in the world. Trillions of dollars flow through land-linked capital decisions every year — data centers, energy infrastructure, timber, agriculture — yet the data infrastructure that supports those decisions remains fragmented, opaque, and decades behind what equity and credit markets take for granted. Aarden is changing that. We're building the data, price discovery, and transparency layer that land has never had — the foundation that institutional investors, developers, and financial markets need to treat land as a properly liquid, tradeable asset class.

We build models and workflows that help to illuminate land's potential for development, and value, across multiple uses. We're a team of eight and our senior leadership has been leading all commercial activity directly. This is our first dedicated commercial hire and an opportunity to join our team at the ground-level, with significant potential for growth.

You will own the production of client-facing deliverables — the investment-grade reports, memos, and analyses that our clients use to make real capital decisions. You'll work directly with senior leadership and alongside our applied science and product teams to take Aarden's data and translate it into outputs that are clear, credible, and worth paying for. You'll become a critical part of our sales and go-to-market engine, supporting pipeline development, sales materials, and customer implementation and account management.

The quality of what you produce reflects directly on Aarden's brand and is a meaningful driver of renewal and expansion. You'll interface with clients, field their questions, coordinate with product on feature needs surfaced through delivery, and help shape how we scale our service model. We're looking for someone who operates with high autonomy — self-directed, accountable for outcomes, and energized by owning a body of work end to end.

This role is an early foothold in what will become Aarden's client success and services organization. As we grow, there is a real path for the right person to grow into a leadership position in that function — shaping how it's built, not just working within it.

Produce investment-grade reports using Aarden's platform, translating land intelligence data into clear, well-structured analyses for institutional land investors and developers

Manage the end-to-end report workflow: scoping, drafting, QA, revision, and delivery — with minimal oversight once ramped

Interface directly with clients during onboarding and delivery: run training sessions, manage implementation timelines, and handle inbound user questions

Serve as the connective tissue between clients and our product team — capturing user feedback, flagging friction points, and helping prioritize what we build next

Synthesize data across infrastructure, regulatory, environmental, and market signals to produce coherent site-level investment narratives

Build reusable templates and frameworks that let us scale delivery without sacrificing quality

Help develop the analytical point of view that gets published externally as Aarden thought leadership

Support account management: prepare materials for reviews, renewal conversations, and expansion scoping

Support sales by building the pipeline through target research, outreach, pitches, and conferences/events

Help build the processes and playbooks that make client delivery repeatable as we grow

Experience in management consulting, investment banking, or a similarly rigorous analytical environment where you produced client-facing work under time pressure

You know how to make a deck that a senior investor would actually read — clear argument, right level of detail, no fluff

Strong written communication: you can translate complex, multidimensional data into a narrative that non-experts can act on

Comfort with ambiguity and unstructured problems — we have a clear output standard but the path there requires judgment, not a checklist

High ownership instinct: you're the kind of person who finishes things

Exposure to technology, real assets, energy infrastructure, private…