About the role
About Firstwork
Labour markets are broken. Millions of people are ready to work and can't start. Screening, right-to-work checks, contracts, onboarding and scheduling still run across disconnected systems, with hundreds of manual decisions in between. Firstwork builds AI agents that run frontline workforce operations end to end. We activate hundreds of thousands of workers a month globally for some of the world's largest employers and staffing firms, working forward-deployed inside the customer's operation. Backed by Y Combinator and Gradient (Google’s AI fund), with offices in New York, and London and Dubai opening this year.
Why this role
Frontline labour markets are badly measured. Governments publish unemployment and vacancy statistics. Nobody publishes a credible number for how long it takes to get a qualified person from application to first shift, what that delay costs, or how much of it is regulatory rather than operational.
We see activation at scale, across sectors and jurisdictions, so we can measure what nobody else can. Publishing it sets the terms of the debate, gives policymakers something real to work with, and gives our commercial teams something better than a pitch deck. The standard we are aiming at is work a member of government or tier one investor forwards along to their colleagues.
What you'll do
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Set the research agenda
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Write and publish flagship reports and white papers
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Own editorial standards across everything Firstwork publishes
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Build data stories with our data and engineering teams
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Lead policy engagement on European labour and employment regulation
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Produce the CEO's long-form writing and speaking material
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Build partnerships with academics, institutions and industry bodies
