Podcast Researcher

About The Ken

The Ken is India’s first and largest subscriptions-based media company. Established in October 2016, we publish deeply reported, analytical, and well-narrated stories every day—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.

About the role

Join The Ken to take on one of the biggest challenges—if not the biggest undertaking—in your professional career. We’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’ll think like a historian, archivist, biographer, investor, consumer, and storyteller to craft comprehensive and exhaustive narratives in audio and written form.

About you

We’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—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.

What you are expected to do

Become a walking wiki of India’s biggest companies — your deep dives will be unmatched

Work with experienced podcast hosts and editors to develop timelines, story structures, and concept memos

Build and maintain archives of sources and context documents

Fact-check information, stress-test arguments when developing new insights, and shape broad narratives that have not been told holistically before

People who may be a good fit

Journalists who enjoy unearthing the under-appreciated inflection points in major companies’ histories

Analysts who can isolate the fundamentals that make a company stand out

Chartered accountants who want to put theory into practice by telling stories through company financials

Stock nerds who can link disparate developments into a logical thesis for why a company excels

Data wizards who mine troves of information to discover new conclusions about brands and businesses

What you’ll get

One of our tenets is to offer the most competitive salaries and meaningful benefits we can to our colleagues.

Besides that, you get

The latest Apple MacBook

A flat, non-hierarchical, and open culture

A universal ESOP plan

Health insurance

Cutting-edge learning opportunities, whether it be on journalism or subscription products

Have questions?
Mail us at [email protected] with the name of the position in the subject line.