Research Analyst, Data Operations

Kharon

1h•Onsite

About The Position

Kharon is seeking a full-time, in-office Research Analyst, Data Operations with working proficiency in Mandarin (simplified and/or traditional) to join our team in Washington D.C. This role requires in-office attendance. Kharon is a highly disruptive and incredibly innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats and international commerce. Operating at the nexus of global security, Kharon is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take complex data related to global security and empower clients to understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships and operationalize that data for informed decision-making. From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against dangerous and costly risks. Serving leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are powerful with unparalleled precision and depth, providing intelligence at the heart of major global crisis events. We connect the dots meaningfully. We are experiencing unprecedented growth as the demand for our products increases with the evolving complexity of the world. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights, we are looking for a Director of Growth Marketing to join us as we shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks. Reporting to the Associate Director of Data Operations, the core of this position is dedicated to conducting open-source research on a variety of foreign affairs and national security issues. More specifically, you will be researching, analyzing, and interpreting data as it relates to sanctions, export controls, and criminal/illicit networks. You will be responsible for the diligent pursuit of data as it relates to ever-evolving market demand and client inquiries. Working collaboratively with the Kharon Research team, you will contribute to the development of new datasets and update existing ones, identifying and utilizing new sources and developing subject matter expertise on various strategic topics. This includes monitoring new sanctions, enforcement actions, and policy activity by regulatory agencies, as well as conducting research on international affairs that affect business risks. Leveraging your sound analytical approach and research techniques, you will identify data typologies, perform detailed quality assurance, validate and reconcile data, and support new product and partnership initiatives. You’ll also play a key role in curating, publishing, and maintaining datasets, and may write original code to collect primary data across various languages. Cross-functional collaboration is essential as you help build out new research, surface insights from existing content, and report key project metrics to internal stakeholders. To the right person, this will be the perfect kind of challenge. Our mission is compelling, our product is powerful, and we’re growing at a rate that makes us unstoppable. If you’re looking to be surrounded by people who will inspire you to think and challenge you to grow then look no further. Our team is made up of some of the most visionary and uncompromising individuals you will ever encounter. We don’t take ourselves seriously but we’re serious about the work we do and there is absolutely no slowing us down.

Requirements

Must have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Business Administration, International Relations, Political Science, Security Studies, Regional Studies, History, Sociology, or a related field
Experience with sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering or countering the financing of terrorism
Experience researching issues of international security and economy in high-risk jurisdictions
Understanding of securities markets, financial instruments, and investment risk
Must have working reading proficiency in Mandarin.
2+ years experience in coding languages (Python strongly preferred)
1+ year experience in using scraping and data parsing packages (e.g., Selenium, Scrapy, proxies, Captcha BeautifulSoup, pandas, etc.)
Experience with or willingness to learn SQL
Experience with data analysis, data visualization, and graph databases (Neo4J)
Understanding of or willingness to learn web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, XPath, JSON, etc).

Responsibilities

Monitoring new sanctions, enforcement actions, and policy activity by regulatory agencies for developments relevant to Kharon’s products
Conducting research on issues in international affairs that impact business risks and identifying relevant data sources
Driving the curation, publication, maintenance, and quality assurance of datasets
Performing data validation and reconciliation to support new products and partnership initiatives
Accurately perform detailed quality assurance of data and developing additional tooling to support these tasks as necessary
Write original code needed to collect primary data in any number of different languages.
Collaborating cross-functionally to build out new research and develop insights based on Kharon’s existing content
Reporting key metrics on projects and share regular updates with stakeholders.