Research & Analytics Manager

See yourself at Dataminr

As a Research & Analytics professional, you’ll be an essential component of our company’s success - making Dataminr’s AI platform more advanced and driving initiatives to support company growth & operations. In this unique hybrid role, you’ll be driving a combination of operational & technical R&D initiatives to improve our alerts, data source coverage, and experiment with ways to maximize ROI from machine learning and AI models. You are a highly motivated individual that loves making sense of large amounts of data, developing models & conducting R&D to inform decision making, and creating presentations to convey strategic insights. You will work with a cross-functional team of AI content engineers, data analysts, and product managers - to solve challenging problems.

AI Innovation at Dataminr 

Working at Dataminr you’ll have the opportunity to tackle the most exciting trends in AI on a daily basis to power a revolutionary product that uncovers critical events around the world as they unfold.

Regenerative AI: our AI technology, ReGenAI, is a new form of generative AI that automatically regenerates real-time Live Event Briefs as events unfold. Learn more here.

Agentic AI: we recently launched our Agentic AI capability, what we’re calling our Intel Agents, that autonomously generates critical context for our clients on real-time events, threats, and risks allowing them to see the clearest, most accurate view of what’s happening on the ground. Learn more here

Multimodal AI: our platform detects events from many different types of data (images, video, sensor data, audio, and text in over 150 languages). Learn more here.

The opportunity

• Gather, analyse and use data to drive both day-to-day decision-making and long-term strategic and operational planning

• Conduct analysis and deep-dives into aspects of Dataminr’s alerting and operational processes, in order to identify and execute quality improvement and innovation opportunities

• Conduct R&D data exploration of open source data ingests utilizing APIs and other methods

• Support and build proprietary algorithmic data streams

• Find technical solutions to help solve business and internal product challenges

• Collaborate closely with Operational, AI and Data teams to support business objectives

• Be self-driven with proven technical abilities, sense of teamwork, and willingness to roll up their sleeves and get work done

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

• 4+ years in a similar role at a consulting, operations, or analytics firm/role

• Passion for breaking information, current world events, technology, and a great understanding of both social media and publicly available data

• Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, with a strong sense of ownership and willingness get work done

• Ability to maintain high attention to detail in a fast-paced environment, quickly learning new technologies and business requirements.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, along with self-motivation and the ability to handle multiple competing priorities.

• High proficiency in following technical skills:

  • MS Office suite, Google Suite

  • Experience with metrics analysis

  • Experience using SQL for data analysis 

  • Python scripting skills desirable

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About Dataminr

At Dataminr, we are a mission driven team of talented builders, creators and visionaries who have real-world impact on how organizations are able to respond to events. Dataminr’s groundbreaking, AI-powered, intelligence platform provides organizations with the earliest signals of emerging risks, events, and threats before they unfold. Trusted by two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100, Dataminr’s platform analyzes billions of public data inputs spanning text, image, video, audio and sensor data across 150+ languages, empowering our clients to stay one step ahead in an increasingly complex world where every second counts. 

Founded in 2009, we have pioneered the world’s first real-time event detection platform, long before the recent Gen AI ‘boom.’ Dataminr operates 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 clients charged with the responsibility to keep organizations running and keep people safe.

As our employees focus on developing our revolutionary technology, we focus on our employees. Dataminr is proud to offer a variety of flexible work arrangements, offices all over the world to foster collaboration, generous PTO and sick leave, and more, as part of our competitive benefits package aimed at keeping all our employees happy and healthy. Explore all our benefits here. 

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, manager development programming, professional development funds, and more.

We serve a global community made up of many cultures and strive to reflect the world and clients we serve, with a workforce built on merit and equity. We actively condemn racism and discrimination in any form. We stand for social good, fostering a culture of allyship, and standing up for those who face systemic barriers to equality. We lead with empathy and strive to be agents of positive change in our company and in our communities.

The annual base salary range for this position is $90,400 - $133,000. You will also be eligible to receive a discretionary bonus and Company equity. Actual salary will be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, geographic location, applicant skills, and prior relevant experience.

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.

Dataminr will collect and process your personal data. All personal data will be processed in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Please see Dataminr's candidate privacy notice available here. By providing your details and applying via our careers website, you acknowledge that you have read our candidate privacy notice. If you have any queries, please contact the People Team at [email protected] or [email protected].