Equity Research Associate

Roth Capital Partners, LLC is a relationship-driven investment bank focused on serving growth companies and their investors. Our full-service platform provides capital markets solutions, including high-impact equity research, macroeconomic perspectives, institutional sales and trading, technical insights, derivatives strategies, and corporate access. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, Roth is a privately held, employee-owned organization with offices throughout the U.S.

About the role

The Equity Research Associate will support a Senior Biotech Research Analyst focusing on emerging SMID-cap firms in healthcare, particularly brain disorders and rare indications. This role involves research, client support, data collection, and statistical studies on industries and individual companies and their securities. Through training and on-the-job experience, the Research Associate will develop skills to research and analyze investment securities and prepare investment recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct investment research by evaluating the pipeline potential of publicly-trading biotech companies.
• Search, collect, consolidate, and interpret company and industry data.
• Develop and maintain financial models, market monitoring systems, and databases.
• Assist in the preparation of research reports, notes, and briefs.
• Communicate and respond to internal and external requests.
• Meet with management teams of issuers, conduct onsite visits, and attend industry conferences.
• Provide administrative support as required.
• Attain required securities licenses.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

• Excellent analytical skills and understanding of (or willingness to learn) relevant financial concepts.
• Ability to express ideas effectively and fluently to clients and internal members.
• Ability to write clearly and concisely with speed and precision.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal direction under tight deadlines and multiple priorities while maintaining a keen attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, organized, with strong attention to detail and willingness to work within a flexible schedule.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in physical or life sciences; prior research experience in CNS-related areas and/or advanced scientific degree (e.g., Ph.D. in basic or translational sciences) is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, AI, Internet search tools, and software applications.

About the Team

The candidate will report to a Senior Biotech Research Analyst with a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry from The University of Illinois at Chicago and several years of postdoctoral research at leading institutions, including Northwestern University (14 peer-reviewed publications/industry articles and 1 patent). The Senior Analyst has seven years of Biotech Equity Research experience covering a broad range of indications, therapeutic modalities, and firm sizes, focusing on neurology, neurodegeneration, neuromuscular, and rare indications for 15 companies at Roth.

Pay

$70,000 base salary plus an annual discretionary bonus.