Head of Fundamental Investor Products

About the role

Apptopia is seeking a Head of Fundamental Investor Products to set the strategy for the fundamental investor business and to guide the research that makes it worth paying for. Backed by powerhouse investors like Mark Cuban and ABS Capital, Apptopia estimates worldwide downloads, revenue, and active users for every mobile app, and runs a first-party panel that shows how people actually use those apps: who is engaging, how often, in which cohorts, and what they use alongside it. Institutional investors, equity research teams, and the platforms that serve them rely on that data to read a company's business between earnings prints. Our numbers reach the buy side directly through our own tools and APIs, and through distribution inside the terminals and platforms analysts already live in. As Head of Fundamental Investor Products, you will own the strategy, the roadmap, and the research agenda for the analyst or portfolio manager who holds a position in a company and needs to know what is happening to that company right now. You decide what we build, which sectors we cover, and what our data has to prove before we sell a claim on it. You decide how we turn our data into value for this user: which products to build, which research to deliver, and which new data points to add. This position reports directly to the Chief Product Officer.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy for the fundamental investor business: where we play, which sectors we cover, what we build next, and what we decline to build.
• Bring a point of view on the market and defend it with evidence.
• Set the direction the team executes: define the problem, the user, the success criteria, and the priority order, and the team turns that into end‑user product or delivered research.
• Stay close enough to make the tradeoff calls, far enough to keep focus on the next 6 months rather than the next sprint.
• Set the research agenda with data science: which signals we build, which questions are worth answering, and what gets shipped, refined, or shelved.
• Hold the validation bar: ensure a usage chart is a product only when the signal tracks the KPI the company actually reports; own the standard for that proof (growth‑on‑growth fit, out‑of‑sample testing, lead time before the print, performance against consensus) and apply it before making a read‑through claim.
• Pick sectors where mobile is already top of mind for the investor