# Research Associate Job Opening at CryptoMize Research Associate jobs in Delhi at CryptoMize are open on a rolling, always-hiring basis — the agency’s political engagements run on research produced to publication standard, and the associates are the people who produce it. This is a full-time, permanent position with immediate joining, based at our New Delhi HQ, inside the research cell that serves campaigns, governance mandates, and policy work across 18 countries. The work spans publications for political communication, reports, presentations, policy documents, and the landscape studies that drive campaign strategy and narrative. Below is the complete job description — responsibilities, requirements, the seniority path, and the selection process. ## Facts - Location: New Delhi (HQ), CDR Building, Chhatarpur - Type: full-time permanent - Availability: immediate, rolling intake (always hiring) - Compensation: discussed at screening ## What you will actually do - Plan and conduct research for live engagements — managing data, conducting interviews, and running the collection designs senior researchers set - Create publications for political communication: reports, presentations, and policy documents that summarise campaigns for the people who fund and direct them - Conceptualise and conduct landscape studies, analysing data from multiple sources to drive overall campaign strategy and narrative - Contribute to multiple research projects at once, moving between political, governance, and policy questions as engagements demand - Monitor the progress of research projects and coordinate information between departmental sections so nothing arrives late or duplicated - Work with data engineers to construct and maintain the databases every subsequent analysis runs on - Solve complex unstructured problems in real time, with tangible impact on governance and politics — the associate’s findings change what the campaign does next week - Identify new resources and methods the research cell can use to reach its goals faster ## Skills - Research design — from question through collection to defensible finding - Publication-grade writing on political affairs - Landscape-study methodology across multiple data sources - Project coordination between research and departmental sections - Interviewing and primary-collection technique - Database literacy — working with engineers on the structures research runs on - Real-time problem decomposition on unstructured questions - Cross-domain range — politics, governance, and policy in the same week - Source evaluation and provenance discipline - Presentation of findings to non-research decision-makers - Discretion with politically sensitive material (non-negotiable) ## Tools - OSINT collection frameworks (agency stack) - Reference-management and publication toolchains - SQL for research-database interrogation - Structured landscape-study templates ## Questions and answers ### What are the requirements for Research Associate jobs at CryptoMize? Good writing skills, deep knowledge of political affairs, and demonstrated research you can walk through from question to finding. Post-graduate or doctoral study helps; the published or delivered work decides. ### Are the Research Associate openings in Delhi? Yes — the position is based full-time at our New Delhi HQ in Vasant Vihar, working alongside the strategists and platforms your research feeds. ### Is this Research Associate vacancy immediate joining? Yes. Openings are rolling and always active — research capacity is staffed ahead of engagements, so strong candidates are onboarded as soon as notice periods allow. ### What does a Research Associate do at CryptoMize? They plan and conduct research, produce publications for political communication, run landscape studies that drive campaign strategy and narrative, coordinate information between sections, and build the databases research runs on. ### How is a Research Associate different from a Political Researcher? The associate is the ladder’s production seat — studies, publications, coordination under senior direction — while the political researcher owns the research line for an engagement outright. Same cell, different scope. ### What is the salary for a Research Associate at CryptoMize? Compensation is discussed at screening and depends on demonstrated skill, engagement classification, urgency, and track record. We do not publish figures — each offer is built individually. ### How does the selection process work? Application, a research exercise (a short landscape study on a realistic political brief), and a panel interview with the research lead plus a strategist. Typical cycle: two to three weeks. ### What tools does the Research Associate work with? The agency’s OSINT collection frameworks, SQL for interrogating research databases, and the reference-management and publication toolchains that turn fieldwork into documents leadership acts on. Apply: https://cryptomize.com/careers/job-openings/apply/