Job Title: Private Equity Analyst

In July 2023, I joined Parthenon Capital in Boston as a Private Equity Analyst. I'm responsible for helping source and execute middle market transactions within the healthcare and financial services sectors. On the job, I use both qualitative and quantitative skills during the investment process. Many of the problems I solve on a day to day basis are applicable to concepts and problem solving skills I learned during my time as a QSS minor. To name a few: I regularly deploy statistical models when analyzing company-level financial data, construct buyout models, and implement business process improvement that is informed by common statistical models and theories.

Job Title: Technical Account Manager

I am working as a Technical Account Manager at a startup, LinkIt!, in the education technology sector in New York City. The company specializes in data warehousing, assessment solutions, and analytics for K-12 schools and districts made up of schools. Only a few weeks into the job, I am already managing over forty clients, each a New Jersey school district with between hundreds and thousands of students. My job involves providing pre-sale demo and pilot set up, onboarding clients through a customizable integration and implementation process, and serving as a liaison between clients, partners, and our product development and data teams. We use SQL to manage the data, so I spend a lot of time writing and adapting SQL scripts to overcome clients' obstacles as they arise.

QSS endowed me with the social, technical, and organizational skills needed to thrive in a professional role that is both client facing and analytical/technical. I encourage any student with an interest in QSS, startups, or living in the city to reach out to me with questions or just to chat.

Job Title: Data Analyst

I am a Data Analyst on the Advanced Data Analytics team at Fidelity Investments in Boston. I work in equity research, but my team does work across all asset classes. We leverage alternative data alongside AI and machine learning techniques to support research analysts and portfolio managers. We develop creative, data science-based solutions to complex questions, and every week looks a little different. I spend most of my time working alongside fundamental research analysts to assess a company or sector. My studies in the QSS department prepared me well to perform quantitative analysis, and explain my solutions to a primarily non-quantitative audience. I regularly use many of the technical, analytical, and communication skills I learned through my QSS classes in my current role.

Job Title: Market Research Consulting

I work at Kantar, based in the Boston office, doing Market Research Consulting. My day-to-day work includes designing surveys, fielding data, and analyzing consumer insights for B2B and B2C businesses. Our purpose is to derive meaningful insights that help our clients develop products, devise new strategies, or monitor and improve their brand's health/reputation. What I learned through the QSS department prepared me well for a career in conducting research and analyzing data to have a material impact on businesses' and the strategies they employ. This work allows me to utilize the range of problem-solving and analytical skills I learned throughout my time at Dartmouth.

Job Title: Market Research Consulting

I work at Kantar, based in the Boston office, doing Market Research Consulting. My day-to-day work includes designing surveys, fielding data, and analyzing consumer insights for B2B and B2C businesses. Our purpose is to derive meaningful insights that help our clients develop products, devise new strategies, or monitor and improve their brand's health/reputation. What I learned through the QSS department prepared me well for a career in conducting research and analyzing data to have a material impact on businesses' and the strategies they employ. This work allows me to utilize the range of problem-solving and analytical skills I learned throughout my time at Dartmouth.

Job Title: Business Analyst

I'm a Business Analyst at MarketBridge. I just started this summer, and I felt that my time learning how to conduct quantitative research in the QSS department really helped with an analytical job like mine. In particular, QSS 015 was my first foray into R and RStudio, which I use on a daily basis at my current job for tidying and exploring client data. I also really appreciated the data visualization course which I use to present my findings to clients and management. It's also the course that got me interested in data science work!

I currently work in marketing effectiveness projects, meaning I use econometric models to assess the efficacy of different levels of marketing spending on different outcomes like conversions or new contracts. We pride ourselves on providing quantitatively-based solutions to clients with solid statistical reasoning, and I'm grateful for the opportunities that the QSS department opened up for me.

Job Title: Director of Process Improvement & Sustainable Energy Initiatives

After graduating, I began working as the Director of Process Improvement & Sustainable Energy Initiatives at Lane Valente Industries. My role consists of helping the company grow both internally and externally as we help companies nationwide develop electric vehicle charging infrastructure for their customers and vehicle fleets. Currently, I am focusing on standardizing our workflow at a national level, modeling our potential for future growth, as well as exploring new business opportunities in the sustainable energy space. The QSS major allowed me to explore my passion for clean energy while gaining the skills necessary to help the company integrate more quantitative analysis into their everyday operations.

Job Title: Post-baccalaureate Scholar in Medical Anthropology at Dartmouth

Following my graduation from Dartmouth in 2024, I joined the Anthropology department as a post-baccalaureate research scholar. Over the course of this one-year position, I will build on the skills I gained in my anthropology coursework as a QSS major with a concentration in cultural anthropology. Additionally, I will work to integrate many of the quantitative methods I learned through my QSS coursework into research design within the program. By leveraging mixed methods in this way, I bring a unique quantitative lens to the mostly qualitatively trained team. Furthermore, the work I completed through the senior honors thesis program in the QSS program has served as a launchpad for my own research in this position. This year, I will work to expand that research project and explore similar topics related to health behaviors and rural communities, which formed the core of my thesis inquiry.

Job Title: Business Analyst

This past October, I joined McKinsey & Company in Denver, Colorado, as a business analyst. My work at McKinsey involves assisting businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations in solving complex problems, improving performance, and driving growth across all industries. So far, my QSS experience has been extremely helpful in my daily work from wrangling messy client data to drawing performance insights using many of the statistical methods I learned during my QSS thesis and classes. Moreover, the QSS major has equipped me with the skills to effectively communicate these insights to both my team and clients.

Job Title: Risk Management Analyst

For the past year, I have been working at Goldman Sachs as part of their Market Risk team. Our job is to quantify potential losses that can occur under different economic scenarios and ensure that the firm is not exposed to outsized losses when markets move against its positioning. My job combines both macroeconomics with technical skills which is at the heart of the QSS program. The interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum prepared me to think critically about the drivers of financial markets, strengthened my technical skills to efficiently analyze data, and gave me a framework to effectively present and communicate my findings to my team.