Data Analyst

Recidiviz • Oakland, CA

24d • Hybrid

About The Position

Recidiviz is hiring a Data Analyst to join their team. This role involves working with complex criminal justice data from state partners to develop analyses and tools that target the drivers of incarceration. The ideal candidate will have attention to detail, creativity, inquisitiveness, clarity in thinking through complex data, flexibility in a rapidly evolving environment, and a collaborative, kind nature. Recidiviz is a fast-moving group focused on creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system through technology and data-driven decision-making. They build software tools and use thoughtful product design to safely reduce incarceration and improve outcomes, working closely with criminal justice leaders, people in prison, and ecosystem partners. People who succeed at Recidiviz are kind, humble, assume good intent, learn from failure, fix problems, and are excited to work with government leadership to improve outcomes. They are great listeners and build deep relationships and empathy with those they work with and those their mission serves.

This role collaborates across several teams to guide work that targets the drivers of incarceration. Data Analysts work with diverse data, including raw and processed criminal justice data, reports, and policy documents, to understand the criminal justice system and motivate change. They perform analyses, contribute to tooling for data management, and support product launches by ensuring analytical data drives impact. Data Analysts also contextualize and present their analyses to key stakeholders. Travel is encouraged approximately once every 6 months to state partners within the continental USA, and occasionally required, including visits to prisons and parole offices.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Exploring datasets to find new insights about American criminal justice systems
• Contextualizing and communicating key findings to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborating with State Engagement and Implementation Engineering teams to design and execute on targeted roadmaps that drive impact
• Collaborating with 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

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 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed