[Hiring] Data Analyst @Recidiviz

Role Description

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Data Analyst to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving group that works with complex criminal justice data from our state partners and develops analyses and tools that target the drivers of incarceration.

• Collaborates across several teams to guide work that targets the drivers of incarceration.
• Works with diverse data – criminal justice data both raw and processed from across the country, reports and policy documents from government agencies, and much more.
• Performs analyses and contributes to tooling that improves our data and how we work with it.
• Helps drive product launches by ensuring each product in each state has the analytical data required to drive the impact we seek.
• Contextualizes and presents analyses to key stakeholders, both internal and external.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, to help nurture a knowledgeable, data-oriented culture.
• Enthusiasm for working with internal and external partners from diverse backgrounds and worldviews.
• Ability to inspect source data, reason about data models, examine results closely, and prepare data and analyses that are usable for various applications.
• 2 or more years of practical experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets.
• Professional work experience using SQL to work with large datasets, including high proficiency writing efficient queries for more complex data extraction and transformation tasks.
• High familiarity with Python, specifically Pandas package, for tasks such as statistical analysis and data visualization.

Requirements

• Experience working in a cross-functional organization that designs, builds, and launches products for users.
• Experience working with large datasets from the public sector, especially related to criminal justice.
• Familiarity with our data stack, which includes Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python/Pandas.

Benefits

• Effective, extremely thoughtful colleagues, working together on a mission that matters.
• 90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents.
• Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period.
• Complimentary One Medical membership (depending on location).
• Partnership with Carrot to provide employees with inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits.
• Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness.
• Free mental health support via Talkspace.
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose.
• An annual company offsite each spring and other ad-hoc gatherings.
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit.