Research and Collections Analyst

Purpose

This role offers an exciting opportunity to join Seerist, a growing company and industry leader in cutting-edge technology and tools for predictive security analysis. The position will join Seerist’s growing Research & Collections team to create and maintain analytical products in Seerist.

This role will support Seerist’s research and collection effort. In this role, you will design collection strategies, research and analyze new sources, and implement them on Seerist’s platform. In addition to long-term projects that enhance the research and collection products offered by Seerist, the role will also participate in a daily workflow centered on actioning source requests and tailoring the product to minimize noise while meeting clients’ specific needs with a focus on political, security, and operational risk issues. This role will also contribute to developing and maintaining intelligence products for Seerist clients.

Role and responsibilities:

• Identify, obtain, and maintain access to online media sources relevant to Seerist’s customer base. This will include working with development and data science teams to incorporate new sources and search strings into the Seerist product.
• Collect and analyze data from publicly available sources including social media, news social media, news websites, blogs, forums, and public records.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of perceptions, trends, and public opinions across countries, particularly how countries’ cultural, linguistic, and political characteristics influence journalism and public discourse.
• Contribute to developing and maintaining analytical products.
• Collaborate with other colleagues within the team and wider organization to ensure collections strategies align with evolving analytical requirements.
  
  
  

Requirements:

• Demonstrated practical knowledge of geopolitical issues, with ability to connect these issues to source collection.
• Proven digital investigation and research skills in a context relevant to political, security, or operational risk issues.
• 2+ years of experience in open-source intelligence research or journalism.
• Proficiency in English and one or more of the following languages: Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Portuguese, Tamil, Urdu.
• Comfortable with planning and executing research tasks on subjects that may not be familiar.
• Ability to evaluate information, identify biases, and make sound judgments.
• Strong sense of curiosity and knack for finding novel, creative ways to generate insights from sources and raw data.
• Enthusiasm for learning new technical skills.
• Flexibility – we are a small company that moves and reacts quickly to the needs of our users
  
  
  

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated background in navigating alternative social media platforms and non-English domains
• Subject matter expertise in a particular region or security risk issue
• Experience with protective intelligence monitoring
• Familiarity with disinformation research and analysis
  
  
  

What Seerist Offers:

• An opportunity to work in a fast-moving, high-growth SaaS company
• Strong results-oriented, dynamic and diverse culture
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Hybrid role based out of our office in Delhi
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development stipend