Weekend Manager, Domain Experts

Company: Dataminr
Location: Victoria
Posted on: June 10, 2021

Job Description:

• -COVID-19 Hiring Update--

Dataminr is still actively hiring.

As the health and safety of our candidates and our employees come first, we're excited to provide virtual experiences for interviews and new hire on-boarding.

This is an office-based role, but we will provide all the necessary support to work remotely until our offices reopen.

Dataminr puts real-time AI and public data to work for our clients, generating relevant and actionable alerts for global corporations, public sector agencies, newsrooms, and NGOs. Our leading AI platform detects the earliest signals of high-impact events and emerging risks from vast amounts of publicly available information. Our real-time alerts enable tens of thousands of users at hundreds of public and private sector organisations to learn first of breaking events around the world, develop effective risk mitigation strategies, and respond with confidence as crises unfold.

Dataminr is making its mark for growth and innovation, recently earning recognition on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500, Forbes AI 50 and Forbes Cloud 100 lists. We also earned accolades for 'Most Innovative Use of AI' from the 2020 AI & Machine Learning Awards.

Join our team and help the world manage risk in real time. You'll work with 600+ talented people across seven offices, united by our passion to collaborate, make a difference, and have fun while doing it!

Who you are:

You're an experienced operational leader with a proven ability to drive strategic initiatives that align with business objectives. You have a passion for leading and motivating high-performing teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You know how to develop and communicate a sense of core purpose with your teams, inspiring and empowering them to achieve their maximum potential.

You are a highly motivated individual who (1) thrives in a real-time information environment; (2) is a mission-oriented team player who wants to make an impact on the world; and (3) is innovative and can multi-task across a wide range of geographic and thematic areas.

Responsibilities:

• Strong leader than can manage, motivate, and develop a team focused on training our AI models that detect breaking information for our three product verticals: Public Sector, Corporate Risk, and News
• Ability to lead and develop talent, communicate company priorities, shifts in strategy, and new initiatives that directly impact the team's daily operations
• Closely monitor and analyze reports, metrics, and SOPs ensuring high-quality work product
• Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional team leads to develop and implement strategies to achieve organizational KPIs and goals
• Collaborate and communicate in a team-centric environment on daily priorities
• Identify any software issues to elevate to our product and engineering teams

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Deep understanding of geopolitical risk issues
• Experience directly managing, leading, and influencing a diverse team across multiple disciplines
• Passion for breaking information, current world events, technology, and a great understanding of both social media and publicly available data
• Superior communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and scaled-operations capabilities
• Excellent ability to make decisions and resolve problems quickly and effectively
• Excellent organizational skills to effectively manage smooth workflows
• Drive to develop new approaches which further improve operational effectiveness for teams
• Intellectually curious with a life-long passion for learning
• Foreign language expertise a plus

Why you should work here:

• We recognise and reward hard work with:
• competitive compensation package including equity
• company paid benefits for employees and their dependents, such as Health insurance with dental cover and vision care
• We want you to be your best, authentic self by supporting you with:
• a diverse, driven, and passionate team of coworkers who want you to succeed
• individual learning and development fund and professional training
• generous leave, including two additional volunteer days
• remote working friendly perks such as expanded telehealth options for mental and physical well-being, meditation and health and fitness app reimbursements
• Discounted Gym Membership

and this is just to name a few!

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 Dataminir'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.

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