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About the Role:
As a member of the Editorial team, you will spend each day immersed in the private markets, aiming to help our customers be better investors, advisors, and market participants. The work you will do plays a direct role in the evolution of the industry!
Everyone on our team is supported by a flexible work environment and a culture that promotes curiosity, collaboration, and professional development. We prioritize recognition and respect across all roles and have a high level of camaraderie. The fast-growing nature of our organization provides ample opportunity to advance in your career and explore what interests you.
As we continue investing in the talent of our group, our coverage has evolved rapidly over multiple industries and geographies. Our insights are routinely cited by top-tier publications and sought after by prominent players in the financial markets. In addition to publishing timely market insights, we also partner closely with our Product, Engineering, and Data Operations teams to continually enhance our datasets and develop unique tools that have a material impact on our customers' workflows. There is no better time to join us!
PitchBook's news team seeks a financial News Reporter to track and cover a wide range of breaking news, daily deals, and more. In this fast-paced role, you will report on and write about key daily developments in private market deal-making, such as funding of venture capital-backed startups, investments by private equity firms, acquisitions, and fundraising moves by investment groups of all types. You will play a pivotal role in how the PitchBook news desk monitors news and announcements from around the world and helps the broader team prioritize daily opportunities for news coverage across our various channels. This is an outstanding opportunity for early-career journalists interested in gaining foundational reporting experience and financial-market knowledge in a dynamic editorial team with high potential for growth and development.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Monitor and scour real-time newswires, regulatory filings, internal research reports, and other financial news outlets to evaluate them for potential coverage opportunities
- Report and write your own news stories, packages of daily briefs, and longer-form feature articles
- Contribute news content for daily newsletters, including summaries and short commentaries about breaking news reported from all corners of the financial markets
- Provide other newsgathering, data analysis, image sourcing, and related editorial tasks as assigned by the editors
- Be an active participant and contributor in regular news staff meetings to brainstorm story ideas, coverage opportunities, longer-term projects, and initiatives
- Travel as needed to news-making events and be able to do spot reporting or other newsgathering for original articles
Skills and Qualifications:
- 1+ year of daily news reporting experience, ideally in financial journalism or a related field
- Skilled in clear and concise journalistic writing that is delivered quickly and cleanly
- Demonstrate news judgment and a bias for decisiveness and production
- Work well under deadline pressure and is able to turn out news stories on short notice
- Team player who collaborates across the news team and other departments
- Ability to understand and explain complex financial topics in straightforward, jargon-free terms
- Competent in working with data sets and performing robust quantitative analysis
- Takes initiative and can pitch and develop your own story topics independently
- Able to travel to industry events and meet in person with professional sources
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite including in-depth knowledge of Outlook, Word, and Excel with the ability to pick up new systems and software easily
Benefits + Compensation at PitchBook:
Physical Health
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Additional medical wellness incentives
- STD, LTD, AD&D, and life insurance
Emotional Health
- Paid sabbatical program after four years
- Paid family and paternity leave
- Annual educational stipend
- Ability to apply for tuition reimbursement
- CFA exam stipend
- Robust training programs on industry and soft skills
- Employee assistance program
- Generous allotment of vacation days, sick days, and volunteer days
Social Health
- Matching gifts program
- Employee resource groups
- Subsidized emergency childcare
- Dependent Care FSA
- Company-wide events
- Employee referral bonus program
- Quarterly team building events
Financial Health
- 401k match
- Shared ownership employee stock program
- Monthly transportation stipend
*Please be aware the above PitchBook benefit and perk offerings are subject to corresponding plan and policy documents and may change during the course of your employment.
Compensation
- Annual base salary: $64,225 - $80,000
- Target annual bonus percentage: 5%
*Starting pay will be based on several factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. We also have a location-based compensation structure; there may be different ranges for candidates by location.
Working Conditions:
The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting. Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day. Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.
Life At PB:
We are consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work and our culture is at the heart of our success. It's our fundamental belief that people do and create great things and that people are the cornerstone of prosperity. We believe that proactively seeking out different points of view, listening to others, learning, and reflecting on what we've heard creates a sense of belonging within PitchBook and strengthens the PitchBook community.
We are excited to get to know you and your background. Concerned that you might not meet every requirement? We encourage you to still apply as you might be the right candidate for the role or other roles at PitchBook.
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