Analyst, Editor (Part-Time, 12 month Fixed Term)

Summary:
  • You need a bachelor’s degree, strong grasp of geopolitical risks, fast data analysis skills in English and possibly other languages, and excellent communication abilities.
  • You will monitor data feeds, annotate breaking news, enhance AI models with expertise, make real-time decisions, collaborate with the team, and identify software issues for escalation.
See yourself at Dataminr
Dataminr’s Editors 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 the AI platform more advanced. As an Editor on our Domain Expert team, you will annotate, label and edit signals from our data feeds 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 an Editor on our Domain Expert team, 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, this is a part-time role on a 12 month fixed term contract that requires working weekends (both Saturday & Sunday) from 7am to 3pm GMT or 3pm to 11pm GMT, as well as projects and meetings outside of business hours.
At Dataminr, we are over 600 talented individuals, spanning seven global offices, united by our passion to use AI for the greater good and be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.
We offer a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you healthy and happy:
  • Comprehensive medical, dental and vision insurance plan options for employees domestic partners and their dependents
  • Generous PTO, flexible sick days and remote working options
  • Paid parental leave
  • Mental health benefits and support
At Dataminr, we serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the diversity of the world in which we live. We stand for social justice and we lead with empathy. We foster a culture of allyship, standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form.
We believe our differences give us strength. Our employees are empowered to be their best, authentic selves through various opportunities, such as our robust employee resource group (ERG) network, learning and development funds, and more.
The opportunity
  • 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
What you bring
At Dataminr, we value you for who you are. We encourage you to apply for this role, even if you don't meet every qualification. Our candidates are reviewed on the basis of their skill and potential to succeed.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; ideally with a concentration in linguistics, English, international affairs, history
  • Deep understanding of geopolitical risk issues that affect all continents and industries.
  • Ability to monitor and analyze data in a fast-paced environment in both English and relevant language, if necessary.
  • Passion for breaking news, current world events, technology, and a great understanding of both social media and publicly available data
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Foreign language expertise a plus
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About Dataminr
Dataminr is a mission-driven AI company that delivers real-time information from 1M+ public data sources, empowering organizations to respond to critical events and emerging risks before they unfold. Founded as an AI company in 2009, Dataminr has the history and tenure in artificial intelligence, and has developed pioneering technology that is redefining the future of real-time information. Recognized as one of the world’s leading AI businesses, recently, Dataminr launched ReGenAI, the first generative AI that automatically regenerates in real-time. Most recently valued at $4.1B, our technology is leveraged by more than two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100 companies who all rely on our AI because we do something that others cannot do.
Watch our CEO Ted Bailey, discuss the Future of Real-Time Information, the breadth of customers who trust Dataminr, and our proprietary ReGenAI technology
here
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At Dataminr, we are creating a team of talented builders, creators and visionaries to have a real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. We operate all around the world united by our passion to use AI for the greater good, be agents of positive change and put our technology into the hands of client charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.
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 data privacy notice available here: https://www.dataminr.com/privacy-policy and applicable data protection laws. By providing your details and applying via our careers website, you acknowledge that you have read our data privacy notice. If you have any queries, please contact the People Team at hr@dataminr.com or our Legal department at legal@dataminr.com.
Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree required; ideally with a concentration in linguistics, English, international affairs, history
  • Deep understanding of geopolitical risk issues that affect all continents and industries.
  • Ability to monitor and analyze data in a fast-paced environment in both English and relevant language, if necessary.
  • Passion for breaking news, current world events, technology, and a great understanding of both social media and publicly available data
  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Foreign language expertise a plus
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
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