China Analytical Director

Eurasia Group • Washington, DC

2d • $230,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Eurasia Group, the political risk research and advisory firm, is seeking an experienced and motivated senior-director-level hire to guide our coverage of China. This role will lead the firm’s China analysis and client-focused work, and build and manage a team of analysts. The director will be responsible for ensuring that Eurasia Group delivers best-in-class research on China’s politics, political economy, and foreign policy – including key relationships such as US-China and China-Europe. The mandate demands a candidate with a broad-spectrum ability to drive analysis across a range of issue areas, from elite Chinese politics, to macroeconomic policy, to geopolitics, to corporate regulatory risk. We will consider candidates with relative strengths in each of these arenas. The candidate must be willing to and capable of engaging with public audiences, both by representing Eurasia Group’s views in mainstream media, and by collaborating between our analytic and advisory work and our growing GZERO Media and events businesses. The successful candidate will have experience and interest engaging across all these platforms, and the ability to drive new thinking and content delivery across each of them. The candidate must be a good fit for Eurasia Group’s culture and values. A successful candidate will bring passion about our mission to deliver insights about the world to our clients and public audiences, while not themselves too seriously. We seek candidates who, like us, set the bar for our work at excellence and pursue that level relentlessly across everything we do.

Requirements

• A record of facilitating and leading unique analysis on China’s political economy.
• A fully established personal brand in the field.
• A publishing record, relevant government experience, or academic qualifications (MA or PhD in political science or related field) to validate competency.
• Evidence of innovative development of source-driven analytic products.
• Ability to think creatively.
• Ability to add new insights to current policy debates and discussions.
• Ability to utilize data and quantitative metrics to support or supplement views.
• An understanding of the business and financial market context for China-focused policy research.
• Deep experience engaging in current debates in academic, government, and private sector circles about China and US-China policy.
• Ability to demonstrate or build a network of sources in those debates.
• Meaningful corporate leadership and mentorship skills and experience, both on setting and meeting business objectives, and on managing and cultivating junior staff either in the government or private sector.
• An ability to operate with a commercial mindset.
• Skills in client service and relationship building.
• Presentation delivery skills.
• Business development skills.
• Experience and interest engaging across media, events, and analytic platforms.

Nice To Haves

• Relative strengths in elite Chinese politics, macroeconomic policy, geopolitics, or corporate regulatory risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead the firm’s China analysis and client-focused work.
• Build and manage a team of analysts.
• Ensure best-in-class research on China’s politics, political economy, and foreign policy.
• Drive analysis across a range of issue areas, from elite Chinese politics, to macroeconomic policy, to geopolitics, to corporate regulatory risk.
• Engage with public audiences, representing Eurasia Group’s views in mainstream media.
• Collaborate between analytic and advisory work and GZERO Media and events businesses.
• Drive new thinking and content delivery across media, events, and analytic platforms.

Benefits

• Mission to provide tools and understanding needed in a world where politics drives disruption.
• Company culture that puts people first.
• Empowering and globally minded environment.
• Diverse ideas and perspectives make analysis stronger and create a better workplace.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior