China OSINT Data Analyst

Job description

Datenna is a fast-growing tech scale-up combining cutting-edge OSINT and AI technologies to provide governments with critical insights into China's techno-economic landscape. Our platform transforms open-source intelligence into actionable insights through advanced data processing and analysis. The Role: As a Medior China OSINT Data Analyst, you will work at the core of Datenna's product operations: conducting rigorous data-driven analysis to support data acquisition and quality assurance, and helping translate complex Chinese-language source material into structured, platform-ready intelligence. This is a position for someone with solid China expertise and research experience who is ready to take greater ownership in a product-focused role. Your mission at Datenna: Analysis and data intelligence Apply deep China domain knowledge to develop products that identify, map, and classify entities across China's corporate, academic, and technology landscape, with a focus on military-civil fusion, dual-use technologies, state ownership, and technology transfer. Use pattern-recognition skills to connect the dots between corporate, state, and military actors to generate structured intelligence that feeds directly into Datenna's platform. Contribute analytical judgements to entity risk labelling, ownership mapping, and procurement tracking, prioritising platform-ready outputs over long-form research deliverables. Data Collection, quality and lifecycle management Own discrete data collection workstreams independently: identifying, evaluating, and extracting structured information from Chinese-language sources including corporate registries, procurement portals, patent databases, academic repositories, and state media. Manage data across its full lifecycle, from initial acquisition and parsing through cleaning, enrichment, validation, and delivery into Datenna's platform, maintaining rigorous standards so that every data point is traceable, accurate, and defensible. Work closely with the Data Lead to uphold and continuously refine data quality benchmarks, contributing observations from collection and testing work to improve automated pipelines. Product development Play an active role in Datenna's data-driven product development cycle, contributing China domain expertise to the design, testing, and refinement of new platform features and data products. Contribute to the…