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# Data Operations Associate at Qualitate

- **Company:** Qualitate
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/qualitate/e1e00cdc-ea2e-4ea9-a89a-407a17152c85

## Job description

## About Qualitate

Qualitate is building the AI-native continuous intelligence platform for enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers. We automate the entire primary research workflow, from study design and expert recruitment through AI-moderated interviews and insight synthesis, replacing weeks of manual research with high output signal in hours. Primary research remains slow and transactional for everyone involved. Investment and corporate strategy teams spend hundreds of hours coordinating intermediaries, scheduling calls, and synthesizing fragmented insights. Experts face repetitive outreach, screener calls, schedule wrangling, and one-off engagements that offer them little control or lasting value. Qualitate transforms this experience with an AI-native expert network platform that gives participants the flexibility to contribute on their own time while enabling research at unprecedented scale. Qualitate’s AI Moderator conducts thousands of conversations with experts each month, capturing forward-looking purchasing plans, competitive displacement, and real-time ROI signals. Our continuous intelligence platform then turns these conversations into quantified, time-series outputs tracking over 10,000 public and private companies, queryable instantly in natural language. Our customers include some of the world's largest enterprises, hedge funds, PE firms, credit investors, and venture capital firms.

## The Role

Data is the foundation of everything we build, and as a Data Operations Associate at Qualitate, you'll be part of the core team that keeps that foundation solid. Reporting to the Director of Data Strategy & Operations, you'll sit at the intersection of data quality, process, and tooling – making sure the information flowing through our systems is accurate, reliable, and ready to be trusted by our clients and internal teams. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You'll build and refine the pipelines and QA processes that catch problems before they spread, untangle the tricky edge cases, and design the workflows that let us scale without sacrificing quality. You'll have real room to bring your own ideas and grow your technical skills as the team evolves. If you like turning chaos into clean, dependable systems and want to shape how a fast-growing team operates, this is the role for you.

## What You’ll Own

- Manage data QA processes. Iterate on existing workflows to improve them and create new processes from scratch.
- Handle data escalations. Resolve data errors quickly as they arise, digging into root causes and fulfilling ad-hoc data requests.
- Build compliance guardrails. Bake them into data processes so sensitive information is handled correctly by default.
- Drive end-to-end survey launches, partnering with our Intelligence Strategy & Ops and Market Research teams to deliver on quarterly goals.
- Tackle unstructured data. Develop new approaches for handling it, and build out AI skills and tooling to make the team's work more efficient.
- Manage offshore service provider relationships, developing reporting and tracking tools that improve productivity and keep work aligned with service-level agreements.
- Maintain SOPs. Document and maintain standardized operating procedures, so processes stay consistent and repeatable across the org as we scale.

Who This Role Is For

- You have 2+ years in Data Operations or as a QA analyst, with a track record troubleshooting data errors, escalations, and edge cases.
- Data quality is top of mind. You have a strong track record of implementing data validation, cleaning, and quality-assurance processes.
- You're proficient in SQL and Excel/Google Sheets, and you use AI tools to speed up your work.
- You’re detail oriented. Small errors don't slip past you, and you communicate clearly about what you find and how you're resolving it.
- You want real ownership. This is a lean team, so you'll have direct accountability for the systems you build and room to shape how we operate.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity. Early-stage data infrastructure is messy—you're energized by building order out of that, not frustrated by it.

What Sets You Apart

- You've been early on the data or analytics team at a technology startup and helped build the function from scratch—not just used tools others built.
- You've handled sensitive data, with prior compliance experience identifying and redacting MNPI/PII.
- Exposure to AI/LLM-adjacent data pipelines (labeling, moderation, quality scoring) is a strong plus.
- You've worked in market research, expert networks, or financial services and understand the data integrity bar those industries demand.
- Experience with BI tools (Looker, Tableau, Mode) to build dashboards that non-technical stakeholders actually use.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Base salary: $100-120K depending on experience.
- Bonus: Eligible for cash bonus tied to individual and company performance
- Equity: Meaningful early-stage grant with upside tied to company growth.
- Benefits: Health coverage, flexible PTO, paid holidays.
- Location: Full-time, in-person in New York City.

What to Expect Working at Qualitate

- Excellence. You'll be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar for quality and impact.
- High velocity. Fast-paced work environment in terms of growth, decision making, and time to impact.
- High agency. Ownership over how you work, not just what you work on. We hire people we trust to figure it out.
- Shared ambition. A small, early team disrupting the multi-billion dollar market research industry with AI.
- Joy. We work hard and genuinely enjoy working with each other. Dedication to our work is matched only by our passion for fostering an enjoyable, collaborative work environment.

## About Qualitate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Qualitate is an AI-powered expert intelligence platform that automates primary research for investment firms and enterprises.
- **Entity Type**: Private (seed stage; raised $7M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Sagar Kadakia (CEO & Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-native primary research, expert networks, market intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B – investment firms (hedge funds, credit funds, private equity), financial services, and enterprise strategy teams
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Equipping every company with the world’s most valuable asset: expert intelligence.”

## Products & Services
- **AI Moderator**: An AI agent that autonomously conducts structured interviews with verified experts, from study design to moderation and insight creation.
- **Continuous Market Intelligence**: Dashboards that track company momentum, competitive threats, and market signals through 350,000+ minutes of expert conversations, analyst research, and curated data.
- **AI Analyst**: An AI-powered assistant that can answer questions, generate executive briefings, and launch custom surveys across the intelligence library.
- **Compliance Suite**: Automatic MNPI and PII screening, firm-level access controls, and a dedicated compliance portal for regulated environments.
- **Custom Research (Diligence, Win/Loss, Channel Checks)**: On-demand, AI-facilitated primary studies delivered in under a week (typically 5 days).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $7M seed round (announced in 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly named (listed only as “World-Class Investors”)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 25 employees as of mid-2025 with 12% monthly headcount growth (LinkedIn)
  - Proprietary data engine trained on 350,000+ minutes of expert discussions
  - Coverage of 500+ companies and 10,000+ technology markets
  - Trusted by “the world’s largest investment funds and corporations”

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated**: Owns the expert panel, moderation, and analysis stack – no third-party dependencies or handoff gaps.
- **Proprietary data engine**: The AI moderator improves with every interview on the platform, creating a data moat that third-party networks cannot replicate.
- **Compliance-first design**: Built for sensitive environments with automated screening and firm-level controls.
- **Speed**: Custom research projects delivered in ~5 days versus the traditional multi-week timeline.

## Strategic Focus
Qualitate is focused on replacing fragmented, multi-vendor primary research workflows with a single AI-native platform. The company is scaling its AI moderator capability to run hundreds of interviews per project, moving from qualitative “outlier opinions” to quantitative, time-series market signals. Growth priorities include deepening coverage across financial services and enterprise verticals, and expanding the engineering and intelligence operations teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Highly collaborative, fast-shipping environment with “big ambition” – described as building a new category of primary research.
- **Work Model**: On-site in New York City (all current open roles are listed as “OnSite”).
- **Team Composition**: Small but growing (25 people) with heavy influence from top expert networks (GLG, AlphaSights, CB Insights) and data companies (YipitData, Gartner).
- **Impact**: Every team member directly shapes the mission; roles span engineering, intelligence operations, sales, and product design.
- **Current openings**: Staff Software Engineer, Founding Head of Talent, multiple Account Executives (Enterprise, Financial Services, Hedge Funds, Credit Funds), and Intelligence Operations Associate – all New York City based.

## Sources
1. [qualitate.io](https://qualitate.io/)
2. [qualitate.io/about-us](https://qualitate.io/about-us)
3. [qualitate.io/careers](https://qualitate.io/careers)
4. [qualitate.io/product](https://qualitate.io/product)
5. [linkedin.com/company/qualitate-io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/qualitate-io)

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