Director, Sustainability Products & Research at Glass Lewis Europe Limited

Timișoara, , Romania -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

21 Sep, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

23 Jun, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Norms-based Screening, ESG Research, OECD Guidelines, UN Guiding Principles, Team Management, Quality Assurance, AI-assisted Research, Technical Writing, Human Rights Analysis, Labour Rights Analysis, Environmental Analysis, Business Ethics, Product Operations, Methodology Development, Stakeholder Management, Domain Expertise

Industry

Financial Services

Description

Glass Lewis is a trusted ally to more than 1,300 investors globally who use our corporate governance research, custom policy recommendations, engagement services and tools, and industry-leading proxy vote management solution to help drive value across their governance activities. We also work with over 3,000 corporate issuer clients, providing research reports, thought leadership, customized voting policies, equity plan models, and opportunities for direct engagement on material governance and disclosure practices. Glass Lewis’ industry-leading research and analysis covers more than 30,000 meetings each year across approximately 100 global markets. Our clients include many of the world’s leading pension funds, mutual funds, and asset managers, collectively managing over $40 trillion in assets. We have teams located across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions, giving us global reach with a local perspective on the most important governance issues. Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Kansas City, Missouri; London, U.K.; Paris, France; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Limerick, Ireland; Karlsruhe, Germany; Stockholm, Sweden; Manila, Philippines; Toronto, Canada; Sydney, Australia; Timișoara, Romania; and Tokyo, Japan. Our team includes more than 600 full-time employees globally, over half of which are dedicated to research. For more information, please visit www.glasslewis.com. Glass Lewis provides governance, stewardship and research services to institutional investors globally. This role sits within the sustainability products group, a new business line building research and data products on the company’s existing research platform. The team is small, senior and building from the ground up, with direct influence over methodology, product design and how the function is staffed and run. This Director owns the norms screening product. During the build, the role is the lead domain expert: co-developing the assessment methodology, setting the quality standard, and shaping the guidance that both the research team and the AI pipeline apply. Post-launch, the role runs the product operationally, covering assessment quality, the research call process, methodology evolution and, over time, a small team of domain analysts. The defining requirement is judgment. The product’s credibility rests on assessment calls that are consistent, well evidenced and defensible to clients and issuers, including on politically difficult cases. This role is where those calls are made or approved. This role is permanent and hybrid, based out of our Timișoara office, with regular in-person attendance three days a week. * Senior experience in norms-based screening or closely related ESG research, ideally having led a research function or product in an established screening operation. * Working command of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, the UN Guiding Principles and the underlying conventions, with a track record of applying them to contested cases. * Demonstrated ability to make and defend assessment calls under scrutiny, with clients and with issuers. * Experience managing analysts and setting research quality standards. * Interest in AI-assisted research and the ability to articulate domain requirements to engineers. A technical background is not required. * Clear, plain writing. Assessments in this product are read by clients and challenged by companies. * Comfort operating in a build environment where the methodology, the tooling and the team are being created at the same time. * Own the GCM product operationally: assessment quality, methodology evolution, the release cycle and product decisions. * Oversee research calls. Review and approve assessment proposals and status changes, ensure consistency with the methodology and the precedent base, and take direct responsibility for the most difficult and precedent-setting cases. * Act as senior domain expert across issue areas, including human rights, labour rights, the environment and business ethics. * Co-develop the assessment methodology and indicator-level guidance, and translate it into instructions that analysts and the AI pipeline can apply consistently. * Work with knowledge engineering to improve the AI-assisted assessment chain: identify where system output falls short of the methodology and articulate what needs to change. * Run quality assurance, including blind reviews, consistency audits and monitoring of analyst override rates. * Oversee the company contact process for status changes. * Build and lead a small team of domain analysts over time, including hiring, development and allocation of issue-area ownership. * Support client conversations on methodology and defend assessments where they are challenged. * Contribute domain input to the design of adjacent products in the suite. We’ve built a culture where people genuinely enjoy working together. Collaboration is at the heart of how we operate. You’ll be part of a team that shares knowledge, supports each other, and celebrates wins collectively. We hold ourselves to a high standard and take accountability seriously, always in a way that brings out the best in people. This role offers an excellent opportunity to enhance your expertise in Sustainability Products & Research and make an impact on work that matters. Join our team and contribute to Sustainability Products & Research. Apply now to become a part of our growing organization!

Responsibilities

The Director will own the norms screening product, overseeing assessment quality, methodology evolution, and the operational release cycle. They will act as the lead domain expert to guide research analysts and AI pipelines while managing a small team of analysts.