Somebody has to answer the questions nobody wants to touch. How should gig work actually be regulated? What does a fair AI policy even look like? Those questions land on a policy analyst's desk, and from there, on yours, working from wherever you happen to be logged in.
The Short Version
This is a remote-first policy research role at $98,500 a year. You'll dig into messy, real-world problems, turn that research into clear recommendations, and help shape how organizations and governments respond to them. It's a small team doing work that far exceeds its size.
What the Work Actually Looks Like
Some days you're buried in datasets. Other days you're on a call trying to explain a regulatory shift in plain language to someone who's never read a legislative brief in their life. Both are the job.
- Draft and revise white papers, position briefs, and legislative proposals
- Pull insight out of raw data to support policy recommendations
- Track shifts in policy frameworks, both domestic and international
- Work alongside other teams to keep research aligned with broader strategy
- Rewrite dense regulatory language into something a non-specialist can actually use
- Present findings during virtual panels, webinars, and stakeholder meetings
- Feed data-backed insight into longer-term strategic planning
- Turn research into charts and visuals that make complex findings easier to grasp
What Gets You Considered
The baseline: 2 years in a policy, research, or legislative advisory role, and a Bachelor's degree in political science, public policy, economics, law, or something adjacent. Beyond that, you'll need to show:
- A knack for research — spotting the detail in a dataset that everyone else scrolled past
- Writing that holds up under scrutiny: clear, well-argued, not padded
- Comfort working across time zones and virtual collaboration tools
- Familiarity with tools like Notion, Airtable, or Tableau
- An eye for detail sharp enough to catch a flawed argument before it goes out the door
- Genuine ease working with people you'll likely never meet in person
What Moves You to the Top of the Pile
- Exposure to digital ethics, fintech, or environmental policy specifically
- A track record of legislative or advisory work beyond the standard research track
- Strong communication range — equally solid in a ten-page brief or a two-line summary
- Prior experience in a fully remote organization
How the Team Actually Works
Everyone here is scattered across different time zones, and somehow it still functions. Meetings happen when they need to happen, not on a fixed 9-to-5 grid. There's real room for deep, uninterrupted work, and enough trust that nobody's tracking your hours minute by minute. Some weeks bring a full-team video call where half the group is having morning coffee and the other half is winding down for the night — it works better than it sounds. Roles like this occasionally get listed through portals such as Naukri Mitra, but what tends to matter more to people once they're here is the actual latitude they get over how they structure their week.
Pay and What Comes With It
- $98,500 annual salary
- Fully remote, with genuine flexibility around working hours
- A learning allowance for courses, books, and certifications
- A wellness stipend, because burnout undoes good research fast
- Support setting up a proper home office
Why the Work Matters
A single recommendation you write can ripple through an organization, a city, sometimes further. This role touches digital governance, climate and sustainability frameworks, ethical tech policy, remote work regulation, and public health preparedness. It's not small work, even when the day-to-day feels like spreadsheets and Google Docs.
Where People Go From Here
A couple of years into this role, people tend to branch in different directions. Some move into senior research positions, shaping the direction of entire projects instead of just contributing to them. Others shift toward strategy, advising leadership on which policy areas deserve attention next. A few have gone on to consult independently, using what they built here as a foundation. There's no single track, and that's mostly by design — the team would rather support where someone's actually headed than push everyone through the same pipeline.
One analyst who joined a couple of years back put it simply: the job turned out to be far less dry than expected, and far more collaborative. Another mentioned that the mix of independence and support helped them grow faster than in previous roles that offered plenty of structure but little room to think for themselves.
A Rough Sense of a Day
Mornings usually start with trend research — lately that's meant a lot of AI-related policy models. Midday might bring a call with a colleague working on digital inclusion, followed by a stretch of writing: a memo on cross-border data policy, or edits to a legislative proposal already in progress. Afternoons often wrap with feedback rounds and a bit of team discussion before logging off. Some weeks are heavier on research, others lean into drafting and revision. It shifts depending on what's due and who needs input.
What Stands Out in an Application
Send writing samples if you have them. Come with one policy idea you'd genuinely want to work on. If you've got a story about a time your thinking shifted how a team approached a project, that tells us more than a bullet-pointed resume ever could. We're less interested in polished credentials and more interested in how you actually think through a problem when the answer isn't obvious.
How to Apply
If this sounds like the kind of work you'd want to wake up to, send your application along with any relevant writing or research samples. We welcome applicants from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Australia, India, and elsewhere — location isn't the barrier here; fit is.
