Domain Expert, Chinese

Job Description

--COVID-19 Hiring Update-- Dataminr is still actively hiring. As the health and safety of our candidates and our employees come first, we're excited to provide virtual experiences for interviews and new hire on-boarding. This is an office-based role, but we will provide all the necessary support to work remotely until our offices reopen.

Min. Experience: Entry-Mid Level

Who we are:

We are Dataminr. We are a mission-driven company committed to the power of AI, public data, and real-time information as a force for good in the world. Over the last decade, our team has established and refined the leading AI platform for real-time event and risk detection. We surface the earliest signals of unfolding events and emerging risks within an increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information, enabling more effective risk mitigation strategies, faster response, and better crisis management. Dataminr serves thousands of professionals in 70+ countries by delivering timely, relevant, and actionable alerts to public and private sector organizations around the world.

We’ve grown to over 500 talented employees across seven global offices and raised $392 million in funding in our most recent investment round. Our culture promotes cross-team interaction, work-life balance and the sharing of information and ideas because it enables us to do our best work together, make a meaningful contribution, and have fun. Join us and help the world manage risk in real time.

About the role:

Dataminr’s Domain Experts are an essential component of our company’s success - ensuring the alerts we send to our clients are of the best possible quality and making Dataminr’s AI platform more advanced. As a Domain Expert, you will monitor and analyze our data feeds and annotate, label and edit signals in real time. You will be an integral part of our algorithm training process and our advanced realtime human-AI feedback loop that integrates key knowledge domains into our AI models. As a Domain Expert, you will also play a key role in defining new factors to improve our alerts, data source coverage, machine learning and AI models. Please note that this role requires rotational weekend work as well as projects and meetings outside of business hours.

Who you are:

You are a highly motivated individual who (1) thrives in a real-time information environment; (2) is a mission-oriented team player who wants to make an impact on the world; and (3) be the in-house expert on Asia where you utilize your fluency in Mandarin Chinese (Simplified or Traditional).

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required; concentration in journalism, Chinese studies, or a closely related field strongly preferred
• Deep understanding of geopolitical risk issues that affect Asia
• Ability to monitor and analyze data in a fast-paced environment in Mandarin Chinese (native-level fluency preferred)
• Passion for breaking news, current world events, technology, and a great understanding of both social media and publicly available data
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently within a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and analyze our data feeds and the quality of our signals
• Annotate complex breaking news events
• Provide expertise on a particular subject matter to improve our AI models
• Ability to make real-time decisions with incomplete data
• Collaborate and communicate in a team-centric environment on daily priorities
• Identify any software issues to elevate to our product and engineering teams

Our offering of competitive benefits and perks include:

• Company paid benefits for employees and their dependents, such as medical, dental, vision, disability and life
• Flexible spending account to be used for out-of-pocket medical, transit, parking and dependent care expenses
• 401(k) savings plan with company matching
• Generous leave
• Daily catered dinner
• A kitchen stocked with snacks and beverages
• Discounted gym membership

...and this is just to name a few!

Dataminr is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Individuals seeking employment at Dataminr are considered without regards to race, sex, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetics, marital status, pregnancy, unemployment status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status.