Head of Research & Editorial
FirstWork, Remote (US)
What you will do
- Set the research agenda
- Write and publish flagship reports and white papers
- Own editorial standards across everything Firstwork publishes
- Build data stories with our data and engineering teams
- Lead policy engagement on European labour and employment regulation
- Produce the CEO's long-form writing and speaking material
- Build partnerships with academics, institutions and industry bodies
- Manage a Content Producer who turns the research into video, graphics, podcasts and report design
What you need
- Seven or more years in research, journalism, think tanks, policy, or a strategy function producing original published work
- A portfolio with at least one piece that changed how someone thought about a subject
- Quantitative comfort. You can interrogate a dataset and recognise when it won't support the claim you want to make
- Real interest in labour markets, migration, regulation or the economics of work