Role Description

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Senior 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 that target the drivers of incarceration in specific systems.

This role collaborates across several teams to guide work that targets the drivers of incarceration. Our Data Analysts work with criminal justice data from across the country to develop our understanding of the system and motivate change. They perform analyses, contribute to data tooling, and ensure each product in each state has the analytical foundation required to drive impact.

• Roughly half of your time will be spent as a technical lead, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver products for specific state partners.
• Work closely with State Engagement and Product Management to assess feasibility, manage delivery, and keep technical teams unblocked and aligned.
• The other half of your time is dedicated to hands-on data analysis and individual contributor work.
• Travel is encouraged approximately once every 6 months to state partners within the continental USA, and occasionally required.

Core Responsibilities

• Leading technical delivery for a set of state partners, breaking down roadmaps into well-scoped tickets with owners and deadlines.
• Coordinating handoffs across data, engineering, and product teams, and keeping the team unblocked and on track.
• Assessing technical feasibility of state initiatives early and often.
• Partnering with State Engagement and Product Management to determine technical timelines and inform the product roadmap.
• Monitoring team capacity and triaging incoming work, flagging resource gaps or at-risk timelines to functional leads.
• Analyzing criminal justice datasets to surface insights, and presenting findings to internal and external stakeholders.
• Partnering with State Engagement, Product Management, and Software Engineering to bring data models and analyses into production software.

Wild Success

A year from now:

• You've driven technical delivery, leading to several successful product launches across the country.
• You've made the team more effective, with clearer ownership and smoother handoffs.
• You've leveled up our analytical team, setting the team up to achieve more impact sooner.

Qualifications

• Experience with technical project management or technical team leadership.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
• Enthusiasm for working with diverse internal and external partners.
• Ability to inspect source data and prepare data and analyses for various applications.
• 5 or more years of practical experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets.
• Professional work experience using SQL to work with large datasets.
• Professional work experience and high proficiency using Python, specifically the Pandas library.

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.
• Familiarity with our data stack, including Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python/Pandas.
• Experience using project tracking tools such as GitHub Projects.

Compensation

Compensation is standardized based on roles and responsibilities. The annual compensation for this role is: $120,000.

What We Offer

• 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 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, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit.