Available Start Dates: February / April / July / September 2026


Looking to start your career in a fast-paced commercial role? Seeking to have immediate personal impact with a clear career path ahead of you? If so, our Associate Program is the right choice for you.

We are looking for a bilingual (English/Mandarin) Client Service Associate to join our exclusive global mobility program. This unique opportunity allows you to launch your career across two of AlphaSights’ world-class locations:

• Phase 1: Shanghai (12–18 months): Immerse yourself in our Shanghai office for comprehensive training. You will gain a foundational understanding of the AlphaSights business, receiving hands-on coaching in project management and high-impact sales.
• Phase 2: New York (18 months): following your Shanghai rotation, you will transition to our New York office to apply your skills and further accelerate your long-term career with us.

Visa Requirements: Candidates must currently hold work authorization for China and have not studied in the US. AlphaSights is happy to sponsor visas for the US rotation; however, candidates with existing US work authorization are also encouraged to apply.

About AlphaSights

We bring together some of the most ambitious people from around the globe to work with the leading investment funds, strategy consultancies and Fortune 500 companies. Together, we help our clients access expert knowledge, elevate their decision-making and drive progress by connecting them with niche experts across the world.

Founded in 2008, our journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. With 2,000+ professionals in nine cities worldwide, we’ve firmly earned our place as a leader in our market and one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Our relentless pursuit of excellence means we only hire the best and brightest graduates to help us reach new heights.

Springboard your career with us if:

• You thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• You excel under pressure and enjoy working to tight deadlines.
• You are gritty, resilient and ready to roll up your sleeves and make things happen.
• You’re looking to utilize your multilingual skills and work with a diverse group of driven talent.
• You’re looking to develop a strong business acumen and work across different industries.

A day in the life of an Associate

As an Associate in the Client Service team, you’ll be the link between our clients and the expert knowledge they seek. Throughout your workday, you’ll work on multiple projects from investors, strategists and dealmakers at top-tier client organizations seeking expert insights to inform their decision-making. This is a communications-intense frontline role requiring you to multitask across parallel workstreams.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Recruiting experts: you will spend a significant part of your day speaking on the phone with experts who are uniquely relevant matches for your clients’ projects, often under tight deadlines. 
• Understanding the project and market context and the legal and regulatory environment in which your clients and experts operate. 
• Taking ownership of every aspect of your projects, from initiating and managing client-expert communications to meticulously scheduling calls to ensure seamless collaboration between them.

Ensuring success for our Associates means: 

• Giving you an introduction to the business world without being pigeonholed into any one industry or profession.
• Helping you develop transferable commercial and client management skills spanning professional communications, negotiation, persuasion, project and time management.
• A clear career path for advancement to Manager after 24-30 months, and to Vice President after ~5 years.
• Successful completion of the Associate Program may qualify you for our MBA Tuition Program, which provides financial support towards the program cost of some of the top business schools worldwide.

 
Requirements

• Undergraduate degree, no subsequent experience necessary 
• Have never studied in a university based in the US in the past
• Track record of strong academic performance (minimum GPA of 3.3 or 2:1 equivalent) 
• Extracurricular achievement throughout school and university
• Internship experience evidencing an interest in business
• Outstanding communication skills
• Fluent in both English and Mandarin at business level or above

Compensation and benefits (Shanghai)

• Expect total first-year compensation ranging from CNY 304,000 (average performance) to CNY 406,700 (very strong performance) consisting of (i) annual base salary of 192,000 and (ii) uncapped variable compensation linked to individual performance
• 10 days annual leave, 1 additional day per year of service up to 15 days, six months full maternity leave, and six weeks full paternity leave
• AlphaSights pays 100% for Private Health Insurance through CITIC-Prudential Life, which includes outpatient and inpatient expenses, critical illness and accidental injury, annual health checks, and dental care. We have benchmarked our insurance to be competitive and comprehensive
• Social insurance
• AlphaSights contributes to public housing funds and all five types of Chinese social insurance into your personal account, including pension, unemployment, work injury, childbirth, and public medical insurance
• Optional WFH on Friday plus an additional four WFH days every three months

AlphaSights is an equal-opportunity employer. 

Riot Games was established in 2006 by entrepreneurial gamers who believe that player-focused game development can result in great games. In 2009, Riot released its debut title League of Legends to critical and player acclaim. As the most played video game in the world, over 100 million play every month. Players form the foundation of our community and it’s for them that we continue to evolve and improve the League of Legends experience.

We’re looking for humble but ambitious, razor-sharp professionals who can teach us a thing or two. We promise to return the favor. Like us, you take play seriously; you’re passionate about games. We embrace those who see things differently, aren’t afraid to experiment, and who have a healthy disregard for constraints.

That's where you come in.

As the Creative Director for Wild Rift, you are the primary architect and public steward of the game’s creative soul. Your mission is to synthesize the outputs of Art, Audio, Narrative, and Visual Design into a singular, world-class voice that defines the League of Legends experience on mobile.

You are a visionary who bridges the gap between high-level brand aspiration and production reality. By aligning internal Riot teams, Publishing, and global partners like Tencent, you ensure that every player touchpoint—from the UI to the latest cinematic—feels cohesive, immersive, and unmistakably Wild Rift. You don’t just manage a team; you build the "North Star" frameworks that empower a multi-disciplinary apparatus to make fast, high-quality decisions at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Define & Socialize the Vision: Author the "Creative Direction Artifacts" (Tone Maps, Pillar One-Pagers, and Visual Design Systems) that serve as the source of truth for both creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Discipline Integration: Synthesize Art, Audio, Narrative, and UX into a singular, world-class voice. You bridge the "language gap" between these specialists to ensure they work in concert toward a unified player experience.
• The Creative "Connective Tissue": Align the creative vision with Tech, Production, and Publishing. You will contextualize technical or budgetary constraints (e.g., performance budgets on low-end devices) and transform them into creative opportunities that elevate the player experience.
• Global Co-Creation: Partner with Tencent and regional leads to ensure hyper-local authenticity (maps, skins, celebrations) while safeguarding the global brand lane.
• Strategic Altitude: Maintain effective work-systems and rituals that provide enough scaffolding for the team to move fast, while leaving ample room for individual creative interpretation and problem-solving.
• Systems-Oriented Leadership: Proven ability to move beyond bespoke feedback. You have a track record of building scalable creative "playbooks" and rituals that align disparate disciplines—Art, Tech, Production, and Publishing—behind a single North Star.
• Ecosystem Leadership: Collaborate with other Riot CDs to shape the future of the League of Legends ecosystem, memorializing experiments and validating what works for the global audience.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of proven track record of leading massive, multi-disciplinary creative teams within gaming.
• 5+ years of proven experience managing and mentoring diverse creative team members across Art, Audio, Narrative, and UX.
• You have a "future-facing" pulse on culture (fashion, music, animation) and can anticipate player trends before they hit the mainstream.
• The ability to translate abstract concepts into concrete "bumper-guardrails" and matrices that unlock team speed and quality.
• Expert-level stakeholder management; you can nudge strong, divergent opinions toward a shared outcome while remaining firm on the "world-class" bar.
• Experience navigating the nuances of international IP, specifically in balancing western design sensibilities with the needs of a global, multi-cultural player base.
• A deep understanding of the constraints of mobile platforms and the ability to find the "creative throughline" between technical capabilities and aesthetic output.

Desired Qualifications:

• Genre affinity for games in the mobile free-to-play space, especially MOBAs.
• Fluency in English.

For this role, you’ll find success through craft awareness, cultural empathy, and decision-making that puts Wild Rift players first. If you care about live games, team health, and visual excellence, this could be the role for you.

Don’t forget to include a resume and cover letter. We receive a lot of applications, but we’ll notice a fun, well-written intro that shows us you take play seriously.