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The Ken

<div><div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About The Ken</b></h3>
<p>The Ken is India&rsquo;s first and largest subscriptions-based media company. Established in October 2016, we publish deeply reported, analytical, and well-narrated stories every day&mdash;across formats such as longform features, newsletters, and podcasts. Our subscriber community, the majority of whom are in India, comprise innovative and successful entrepreneurs and senior executives; venture capitalists; policy makers; MBA students; and dozens of companies.</p>
<p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About the role</b></h3>
<p>Join <i>The Ken</i> to take on one of the biggest challenges&mdash;if not the biggest undertaking&mdash;in your professional career. We&rsquo;re seeking researchers to join the team and help us uncover the untold stories about the greatest companies in India and the people who shape them. You&rsquo;ll think like a historian, archivist, biographer, investor, consumer, and storyteller to craft comprehensive and exhaustive narratives in audio and written form.</p>
<p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>About you</b></h3>
<p>We&rsquo;re looking for someone who has worked in investment research, business journalism, or documentary storytelling. You must be comfortable working with many types of materials&mdash;investor letters, oral histories, trade publications, media coverage, public company filings, and more to synthesise hundreds of pages into a focused storyline. Detail, precision, and intellectual rigour are crucial.</p>
<p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>What you are expected to do</b></h3>
<ul><p>Become a walking wiki of India&rsquo;s biggest companies &mdash; your deep dives will be unmatched</p>
<p>Work with experienced podcast hosts and editors to develop timelines, story structures, and concept memos</p>
<p>Build and maintain archives of sources and context documents</p>
<p>Fact-check information, stress-test arguments when developing new insights, and shape broad narratives that have not been told holistically before</p>
</ul><p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>People who may be a good fit
</b></h3><ul><p>Journalists who enjoy unearthing the under-appreciated inflection points in major companies&rsquo; histories</p>
<p>Analysts who can isolate the fundamentals that make a company stand out</p>
<p>Chartered accountants who want to put theory into practice by telling stories through company financials</p>
<p>Stock nerds who can link disparate developments into a logical thesis for why a company excels</p>
<p>Data wizards who mine troves of information to discover new conclusions about brands and businesses</p>
</ul><p></p><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>What you&rsquo;ll get</b></h3>
<p>One of our tenets is to offer the most competitive salaries and meaningful benefits we can to our colleagues.</p>
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Besides that, you get</p>
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<p>The latest Apple MacBook</p>
<p>A flat, non-hierarchical, and open culture</p>
<p>A universal ESOP plan</p>
<p>Health insurance</p>
<p>Cutting-edge learning opportunities, whether it be on journalism or subscription products</p>
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<p></p><p><b>Have questions?</b><br>
Mail us at careers@the-ken.com with the name of the position in the subject line.</p></div></div></div>

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