Analyst, Scaled Operations International R&D

Job Description

--COVID-19 Hiring Update--

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.

Who we are:

Dataminr puts real-time AI and public data to work for our clients, generating relevant and actionable alerts for global corporations, public sector agencies, newsrooms, and NGOs. Our leading AI platform detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from vast amounts of publicly available information. Our real-time alerts enable tens of thousands of users at hundreds of public and private sector organizations to learn first of breaking events around the world, develop effective risk mitigation strategies, and respond with confidence as crises unfold.

Dataminr is making its mark for growth and innovation, recently earning recognition on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Forbes AI 50 and Forbes Cloud 100 lists. We also earned accolades for ‘Most Innovative Use of AI’ from the 2020 AI & Machine Learning Awards.

Join our team and help the world manage risk in real time. You’ll work with 800+ talented people across eight offices, united by our passion to collaborate, make a difference, and have fun while doing it!

Who you are:

You are highly motivated, extremely organized, process-focused and interested in working with a team that’s driving initiatives to support research and development for Dataminr. You love conducting research and annotation projects and developing/implementing inspection activities, ensuring the end product matches Dataminr’s quality standards. You are comfortable making sense of large amounts of data. You are highly analytical, detail oriented and strong at prioritizing your work. You take the initiative to own projects and deliver results with the goal to make the organization more successful. You will work with a cross-functional team across several departments to solve challenging problems and to contribute to developing and improving the capabilities of Dataminr’s AI platform.

Responsibilities:

• Help to manage day-to-day work of the research team(s), reporting to the R&D Program Manager.
• Support planning, assignment and progress tracking of R&D team’s tasks.
• Coordinate aspects of training the team of researchers on new types of projects, including rollout of new initiatives.
• Facilitate program success through performance tracking, quality assurance and implementation and utilization of feedback loops.
• Work cross functionally to drive efficient and priority-driven operations.
• Be self-driven with proven technical abilities, strong sense of teamwork, and willingness to roll up their sleeves and get work done

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience or training in project management or operations management
• Excellent cross-functional and relationship-building skills
• Great understanding of both social media and publicly available data
• Excellent attention to detail and highly organized with demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience or willingness to learn how to present to multiple levels of an organization
• Strong understanding of Google Sheets
• Strong understanding of Google Slides (ability to build concise and visually strong decks for executive-level presentations)
• Experience in using Looker and BigQuery a plus, but not required

Why you should work here:

• We recognise and reward hard work with:
• competitive compensation package including equity
• company paid benefits for employees and their dependents such as Health and Dental insurance as well as Income Protection and Life Insurance
• personal retirement savings account with employer match
• We want you to be your best, authentic self by supporting you with:
• a diverse, driven, and passionate team of coworkers who want you to succeed
• individual learning and development fund and professional training
• generous leave, including two additional volunteer days
• Remote working friendly perks such as expanded telehealth options for mental and physical well-being, meditation and health and fitness app reimbursements
• Discounted Gym Membership

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

Next Steps:

• After applying, a member of the Talent Acquisition team will reach out if the eligibility requirements are met and the employee’s skill set matches the desired skills for the role. Employees will be required to interview with multiple members of the team (either virtually or in person) throughout the interview process.
• Dataminr reserves the right to make exceptions to the above on a case-by-case basis in line with business needs.

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

Dataminr will collect and process your personal data. All personal data will be processed in accordance with Dataminr’s job candidate privacy notice available here: https://www.dataminr.com/irecandidatenotice.

For individuals applying for US-based roles:

Dataminr is requiring that all prospective employees hired for this position present proof that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their first day of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law .

Dataminr is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates who are unable to be vaccinated due to a sincerely held religious belief, medical reasons, or other legally protected reasons, should contact their recruiting representative as soon as possible following any conditional offer of employment to explore what, if any, reasonable accommodations Dataminr is able to offer.

For individuals applying for Australian -based roles:

Dataminr requires (as a condition of employment) that the successful candidate for this position be fully vaccinated with a recognized and approved COVID-19 vaccine prior to commencing employment. The successful candidate will be required to present proof that they are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their first day of employment.

Candidates who are unable to be vaccinated due to a legally protected reason should contact their recruiting representative as soon as possible following any offer of employment to explore what, if any, reasonable accommodations Dataminr is able to offer.