Fundamental Research Fellow, Canvas

About Proprietary Research

On our proprietary research team—Market Intelligence—you’ll partner with our Investment Professionals and Compliance team to uncover insights about companies, industries, and the broader economy through deep fundamental research.

Canvas is the supply chain research group within Market Intelligence. Canvas conducts compliant supply chain research by developing deep industry expertise, speaking with private company executives, and synthesizing information for portfolio managers and analysts. The team produces impactful research that will change the way you look at the world.

What You’ll Do

This 6-month intensive fellowship offers hands-on experience in research, business analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and the investment process within a fast-paced, compliance-focused environment. Canvas Fellows will be considered for permanent placement on the team following completion of the program.

As a Fundamental Researcher on Canvas, your qualitative research will explain why is happening. During the 6-month program based in our New York office, you will:

• Become a subject matter expert on an assigned industry.
• Engage with small, medium, and large private company executives about their businesses and the industries in which they operate, gathering qualitative data on key developments—including structural shifts, real-time changes in supply/demand dynamics, and emerging competitors, markets, and technologies—with a focus on understanding why.
• Synthesize findings in comprehensive reports that present a view of the industry.
• Gain exposure to, and learn from, business leaders across industries, including private company executives and your colleagues.
• Interact directly with investment professionals and learn the discretionary investment process to help drive more informed investment decisions.
• Partner on the above with dedicated Compliance professionals.

What Excites You

• Staying current on the evolving alternative data market and its role in discretionary investing.
• Speaking with experts both inside and outside the firm to understand data needs and offerings.
• Analytical thinking and sifting through available data to find “the answer.”
• Fast-paced work environments that may require switching gears to address business needs.
• Working as part of a cross-functional team comprising investment, research, and compliance professionals.

What Excites Us

• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and project management skills.
• Superb business intuition and a solution-oriented, methodical approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to collaborate and build relationships across multiple business units within the firm.
• People who “elevate the room” through their work ethic, curiosity, and solution-oriented attitude.
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

What’s Required

• Undergraduate degree conferred in 2025 or 2026.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• An eagerness to find out whether your conclusions are right or wrong.
• An understanding of how companies work (their processes and outcomes) or an interest in learning.
• Intellectual curiosity, creative thinking, and maturity.
• Highest standards of ethical decision-making.

What Success Looks Like

• Integrity: Demonstrate 100% commitment to the highest ethical standards.
• Ownership: Take charge of your work, uphold commitments, and do your best.
• Commerciality: Focus on what matters most, ask questions when needed, and avoid wasting time—your own or others’.
• Humility: Welcome and apply feedback, and learn from past mistakes.
• Adaptability: Triage business needs and context-switch quickly and efficiently.
• Admirability: Elevate the room through work ethic, domain knowledge, work product, and a solution-oriented attitude.

We Take Care of Our People

We invest in our people, their careers, their health, and their well-being. We provide:

• Fully paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities, and the LGBTQ+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

About Point72

Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. The firm aims to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to its people’s long-term growth.

For more information, visit https://point72.com/.

The annual base salary is $100,000 (USD), which will be prorated based on program start and end date. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from the posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.