Position: Lead Quantitative Analyst, New Product Development – Morningstar
Indexes

The Area: Morningstar Indexes is building the next generation of index products
at the intersection of markets, quant research, data science, and AI. This is a
hands-on builder role for someone who wants to move fast, experiment with recent
tools, turn bold ideas into scalable index solutions, and help redefine how
investment products are researched, tested, and launched.

Responsibilities:

* Build and launch new benchmark, thematic, factor, strategic beta, and
multi-asset indexes from concept to market in partnership with research,
product, technology, operations, and commercial teams.

* Drive the full product innovation cycle—spot opportunities, explore data,
test signals, run back-tests, shape methodology, solve implementation
challenges, and get products launch-ready.

* Use quant techniques, machine learning, portfolio construction, risk
analytics, and statistical testing to turn investment ideas into durable,
rules-based index methodologies.

* Push the use of AI, coding assistants,



and agentic workflows to automate
research, speed up analysis, test methodology logic, and make product
development smarter and faster.

* Bring builder energy to the team by creating tools, prototypes, dashboards,
research insights, and client-ready stories that make complex quant and AI
ideas easy to understand and exciting to use.

Requirements:

* 4+ years of experience in indexes, asset management, investment banking,
fintech, systematic investing, quantitative research, or a related investment
technology environment.

* Strong quant toolkit, including hands-on experience with investment analysis,
factor research, portfolio construction, back-testing, risk analytics, or
systematic strategy design.

* Comfortable writing code and working with data using Python, R, SQL, MATLAB,
or similar tools to prototype ideas, analyze large datasets, and automate
repeatable workflows.

* Excited by AI-first wa

📌 Lead Quantitative Analyst, New Product Development (Mumbai)
🏢 Morningstar
📍 Mumbai