Research Analyst

Research Analyst

Final date to receive applications: 31 August 2026

Department: Research

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York

Compensation: $68,000 - $78,000 / year

TL;

DR Kharon is seeking a full-time Research Analyst based in NYC or Washington D.C. This role requires in-office attendance 4 days a week.

• Monitoring new sanctions, enforcement actions, and policy activity by regulatory agencies for developments relevant to Kharon’s products.
• Driving the curation, publication, maintenance, and quality assurance of datasets.
• Performing data validation and reconciliation to support new products and partnership initiatives.
• Conducting research on issues in international affairs that impact business risks and identifying relevant data sources.
• Accurately perform detailed quality assurance of data and developing additional tooling to support these tasks as necessary
• Writes original code to assist in automating data analysis, cleanup, and enhancements.

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Business Administration, International Relations, Political Science, Security Studies, Regional Studies, History, Sociology, or a related field.
• Must have at least 1-3 years of professional experience with sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering or countering the financing of terrorism, and experience researching issues of international security and economy in high-risk jurisdictions.
• 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).

Kharon is a highly disruptive and incredibly innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats + international commerce.

What does that mean? Great question.

Operating at the nexus of global security, Kharon is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take really complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible.

From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of today’s leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled.

When you look at any major global crisis event, we’re providing intelligence that’s at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that’s meaningful. Now, we’re experiencing unprecedented growth. As the world continues to evolve in complexity, so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights, we are looking for a Research Analystto join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks.
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 our client inquiries.

Working collaboratively with the Kharon Research team, you will contribute to the development of new datasets and update existing ones, identifying and…