Associate Director of Quantitative Research

About the role

We are seeking an Associate Director of Quantitative Research to lead our Investment & Time Series team. This team owns a broad and growing set of the calculations that underpin Morningstar's data — fund flows, fees, asset allocation, performance, and more. Together, they form a foundational layer that a huge range of downstream products and research depend on getting right.

What you'll do

• Own the team's day-to-day tactical work — client-driven methodology checks, regulatory-driven updates, one-off investigations — ensuring requests are triaged, resolved
• Operate reliably across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring robust, on-time delivery as request volume grows
• Lead a smaller number of larger research initiatives each year, building the team's expertise in the areas it's asked to focus on rather than staying purely reactive
• Serve as the team's methodology anchor: since the team skews less senior, you'll be the one making the calls, reviewing logic
• Coordinate with Product Management and Data Strategy, Technology, and other stakeholders — including Data Collection, Product teams

What you need

• Research
• Python
• AWS
• CFA
• Lean