Careers at KKR
Data Operations - Enterprise Market Data Strategy Lead
New York, New York, United States
Sponsorship not specified$185k-$230kDetected 15 days ago
ForecastingBudgetingFP&AVendor ManagementResearchCommunication
About the role
- KKR is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management as well as capital markets and insurance solutions.
- KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities.
- KKR's insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of Global Atlantic Financial Group.
Responsibilities
- Own KKR's enterprise market data strategy, including spend optimization, demand management, vendor rationalization, and alignment of market data investments with business priorities.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive view of KKR's market data landscape, including vendors, products, contracts, entitlements, usage, and spend.
- Lead evaluation and governance of market data demand, ensuring new requests, existing subscriptions, and vendor relationships deliver measurable business value and ROI.
- Partner with business leaders, COOs, FP&A, Sourcing, Legal, Technology, and Data Operations to understand needs, manage tradeoffs, and support strategic market data decisions across the firm.
- Drive transparency and accountability through reporting, budgeting, forecasting, renewal planning, and executive-level communications, including Market Data Steering Committee updates.
- Lead commercial optimization initiatives, including vendor consolidation, contract negotiations, license right-sizing, entitlement management, and other opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
- Ensure effective operational management of the market data ecosystem, including contract compliance, license governance, technology enablement, and support for scalable processes and controls.
- KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds.
- They operate with the independence, judgment, and ownership expected at the Principal level - and they will treat this program as their own franchise to build.
Requirements
- 8-12 years of experience in market data strategy, market data operations, data product management, vendor management, or related roles within financial services, market data providers, or information services firms.
- Strong understanding of how market data is consumed across investment research, portfolio management, trading, risk, compliance, operations, and finance workflows.
- Experience managing enterprise market data platforms, inventories, entitlements, vendor catalogs, or related solutions such as Calero, TRG Screen, Alveo, or similar technologies.
- Experience establishing operating models, governance frameworks, reporting, and decision-making processes for enterprise data, technology, or market data programs.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- KKR will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws.
- Deep knowledge of the market data ecosystem, including major providers such as Bloomberg, LSEG, FactSet, S&P Global, MSCI, ICE, and Moody's, as well as their products, licensing models, commercial structures, and competitive positioning.
- Strong commercial and analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate vendor proposals, negotiate complex agreements, analyze usage and spend data, identify optimization opportunities, and build business cases that deliver measurable value.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive enterprise initiatives in a highly matrixed environment, partnering effectively across business, technology, finance, sourcing, and legal teams.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to develop executive-level materials and present recommendations to senior leadership.
- Collaborative, intellectually curious, commercially minded, and execution-oriented, with a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.
Nice to have
- Experience at a financial institution with $100B+ in AUM, or at a Tier 1 market data vendor in a strategic, product, or senior client-facing capacity.
- Familiarity with alternative asset management workflows, including private equity, credit, real assets, and insurance investment operations.
- Knowledge of market data regulatory and compliance requirements, including exchange audit processes, redistribution rules, and licensing restrictions.
- Experience with cost allocation methodologies for enterprise data and market data spend, and with enterprise budgeting and forecasting in a financial services context.
- MBA or advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
- The ideal candidate is a market data expert who understands the market data ecosystem strategically-not just operationally.
- They may come from a market data strategy, product, operations, or vendor management role at a leading financial institution or provider such as Bloomberg, LSEG, FactSet, S&P Global, MSCI, or ICE.
- Candidates from consulting backgrounds with significant market data advisory experience and a track record of driving enterprise transformation are also well suited.
Compensation
- $185,000 - $230,000 USD
- This is the expected annual base salary range for this New York-based position.
- Base Salary Range
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, based on factors such as individual and team performance.
Company info
- We are seeking a Principal, Enterprise Market Data Strategy to serve as the dedicated enterprise lead for market data strategy, execution, and optimization within KKR's Global Data Operations organization.
Equal opportunity
- KKR is an equal opportunity employer.
Apply directly at Careers at KKR →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Careers at KKR immigration profile
This listing is sourced directly from Careers at KKR's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.