Research Analyst Job at City of London Full Time NEW

Research Consultant | Research Associate | Research Analyst

(Graduate’s welcome) — AI-Augmented Executive Search & Strategy

Smart, curious and quick with AI tools? Want to learn how strategy, consulting and executive search actually work from the inside, on live client work?

Opulent Mind is a high value executive search and strategic intelligence firm. We work with CEOs, boards and investors across software, SaaS, fintech and data-led businesses. As our client work grows, we are hiring a Research Consultant to help deliver it.

From week one you will be working on board-level mandates from mapping markets, profiling companies and leaders, scanning signals, interviewing senior operators, and building the intelligence that shapes how major businesses execute their strategy. You will work alongside the founder and our research lead, supported by a full suite of AI agents you will learn to drive.

Headline

This role fast-tracks your network. You will research, reach out to, and alongside the senior team, speak directly with CEOs, founders, investors and M&A teams. The relationships and market fluency you build here would take most people a decade to acquire. You get them in your first year.

What you’ll actually do

• Build and enrich target lists — competitors, partners, investors and talent — using LinkedIn, AI tools and our research stack.
• Research companies and people: who they are, what they’re building, how they sell, where the signals point.
• Interview senior operators and prepare the senior team for conversations with CEOs, founders, investors and M&A teams — then help capture and synthesise what comes back.
• Run AI-assisted desk research and turn it into clean, structured, decision-ready outputs.
• Track market signals (news, funding, M&A, leadership moves) and flag what matters.
• Keep the CRM and intelligence pipeline immaculate — you’re the backbone of a fast-moving operation.

You’ll thrive here if you are

• A genuine self-starter where you take an ambiguous brief and run with it.
• Curious about business, consulting, strategy, markets and AI.
• Already comfortable with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, agents) — or obsessed enough to master them fast.
• Sharp, accurate and organised where you sweat the detail and hit deadlines.
• A strong communicator who can make complex things clear and concise.
• Show initiative and creative thinking, your ideas are welcome!

What you’ll get

• A fast-tracked network with direct exposure to CEOs, founders, investors and M&A teams that most people spend years trying to reach.
• Direct mentorship from a founder with nearly two decades in executive search and commercial strategy.
• Front row exposure to live board level work in AI, Financial Services, SaaS and technology.
• Real ownership, fast and a clear path to grow as the firm scales.
• A modern, AI-first way of working that will make you genuinely good quickly.

Sound like you? Apply with your CV and a couple of lines on why this role or message us directly.

Opulent Mind is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. This role is fully remote from within the UK only. Occasional travel to client sites across London, Kent, Manchester, Leeds, Europe and Middle-East.