[Hiring] Senior Policy Data Analyst @Recidiviz

Role Description

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Senior Policy 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. We’re looking for someone who has:

• Creativity and inquisitiveness to identify and solve open-ended problems
• Clarity to think through complex and variable data
• Flexibility to adjust in a rapidly evolving environment
• A collaborative, kind nature to add to our culture

Core Responsibilities

• Building analysis from corrections and parole data: Use SQL and Python to wrangle administrative data to articulate how a system behaves.
• Modeling policy scenarios and quantifying tradeoffs: Apply statistical methods to project how outcomes change under different policy designs.
• Communicating findings to the people making the decision: Create decks and memos that go to DOC leadership and tailor work to motivate action.
• Running your projects end to end: Translate project objectives into an analysis strategy and adjust course as project objectives change.
• Collaborating across Recidiviz: Obtain state context, understand underlying data infrastructure, and support policy implementation.
• Finding the next opportunity: Spot where additional analysis could unlock a decision and run early exploration to assess worth.

Qualifications

• 5 or more years of practical experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets
• Professional experience using SQL with large datasets, including high proficiency writing efficient queries
• Professional experience with Python, particularly pandas, for statistical analysis and data visualization
• Sufficient statistical background to reason about analysis design and prepare analyses that hold up to scrutiny
• Experience scoping and delivering analytical work, balancing depth and speed
• Experience on teams where ownership is shared across functions

Requirements

• Experience adapting quantitative methods to introduce intuitively meaningful metrics
• Experience working with large administrative 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

• 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 for 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 flexibility to work remotely
• An annual company offsite each spring and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup