Senior Sector PM — Event-Driven Equity & Forecasting

Obsidian; Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is building expert-authored forecasting and research data used to evaluate and improve AI models on real financial analysis. Each task asks a practitioner to reason from a fixed evidence cutoff — no hindsight — and document the judgment a strong analyst would have made at that moment.

This role covers company event propagation: identifying the companies related to an upcoming event and estimating how the catalyst should transmit to each of them.

Qualifications

• 8+ years as a senior sector PM, lead equity analyst, or event-driven investor.
• Hands-on mapping of a company's economic network from primary filings.
• Ability to identify related companies before events and assess catalysts.
• Proven judgement and rigorous review of model analyses.

Responsibilities

• Map suppliers, customers, competitors, distributors, substitutes and geographic exposure from EDGAR filings, footnotes, exhibits, transcripts and industry data
• Identify related companies ahead of an event and separate direct exposure from weak thematic correlation
• Estimate direction, magnitude, horizon and confidence, and name the revenue, margin, earnings or valuation mechanism behind each
• Review model-generated analyses and grade them against your own standard

Skills

Equity research

Event-driven investing

Industry expertise

Quantitative judgment

Job description

Obsidian is building expert-authored forecasting and research data used to evaluate and improve AI models on real financial analysis. Each task asks a practitioner to reason from a fixed evidence cutoff — no hindsight — and document the judgment a strong analyst would have made at that moment.

This role covers company event propagation: identifying the companies related to an upcoming event and estimating how the catalyst should transmit to each of them.