Data Analyst

Summary

Join Recidiviz as a Data Analyst to contribute to improving outcomes in the criminal justice system by analyzing complex data and developing tools that target the drivers of incarceration.

Requirements

• 3 or more years of professional experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets
• 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, such as government staff, researchers, journalists, technical staff, and practitioners in criminal justice reform
• Ability to inspect source data, reason about data models, examine results closely, and prepare data and analyses that are usable for various applications
• 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

Responsibilities

• Exploring our datasets to find new insights about American criminal justice systems
• Contextualizing and communicating key findings to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborating with our State Engagement and Implementation Engineering teams to design and execute on targeted roadmaps that drive impact in the states where we work
• Collaborating with our Product Management, Data Science, and Software Engineering teams to bring analyses and data modeling into production software
• Analyzing trends and changes in areas related to our own work to understand how our products function

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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