Senior Quantitative Research

1 Finance; Mumbai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

1 Finance is seeking a senior researcher to own behavioural frameworks and lead macroeconomic research. You will direct model development for mutual funds, insurance products, credits and lending, and publish insights for members and clients.

The role requires hands-on leadership of a research team, cross-disciplinary collaboration with data science and economics, and a strong publishing track record.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in financial research or related field.
• End-to-end research product development experience.
• Experience leading researchers across disciplines.
• Proficiency in Generative AI, programming and model review.
• Strong interest in behavioural finance.
• Macroeconomic literacy and link to household decisions.
• Excellent written communication for publication.

Responsibilities

• Own behavioural frameworks and calibrate as data grows.
• Direct macroeconomic research and track high-frequency indicators.
• Oversee scoring and ranking models across financial products.
• Lead development of asset allocation and stress-testing models.
• Direct primary research for 1 Finance Magazine and reports.
• Manage the research team, hiring and publication quality.

Skills

Experience in financial research

End-to-end research product design

Managing researchers across teams

Generative AI proficiency

Behavioural finance interest

Macroeconomic literacy

Clear writing & publications

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own the firm’s patented behavioural frameworks, covering financial personality and the quality of financial decision‑making, including their ongoing calibration and improvement as member data grows.
• Direct the firm’s macroeconomic research, covering tracking of high frequency indicators and the macroeconomic views published from it.
• Oversee product scoring and ranking models across mutual funds, health and term insurance, credit cards, home loans, NPS and crypto.
• Lead the development of financial planning models, including asset allocation frameworks, portfolio optimisation methods and stress testing.
• Direct the primary research behind 1 Finance Magazine and the firm’s periodic research reports (real estate, credit, liability planning, global economic outlook).
• Manage the research team, including hiring, performance reviews, research standards and publication quality.

Skills

• 5-10 years of experience in financial research, quantitative modelling or a related field, with work that has informed real investment or advisory decisions.
• Has built at least one research product end-to-end, covering framework design, data, modelling, output and maintenance.
• Experience managing researchers across disciplines, including quantitative research, macroeconomics, data science and financial products.
• Working proficiency in Generative AI, logical thinking and programming, with the ability to review and challenge the models of others.
• A serious interest in behavioural finance; the firm’s research begins with how individuals behave with money.
• Macroeconomic literacy, including the ability to connect macroeconomic developments to household‑level financial decisions.
• Clear writing, as the function’s research is published to members and to the advisory community.