[Remote] Data Analyst

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Recidiviz is a mission-driven organization using technology and data to improve outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. The Data Analyst will analyze complex criminal justice datasets, develop insights, improve data tooling, support product launches, and communicate findings to internal and external stakeholders.

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

Skills

• * 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
• * 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
• * 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, as well as a small but growing number of hormonal health and gender-affirming care 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

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