Impact Analytics Data Analyst

Recidiviz•Oakland, CA

2h•Remote

About The Position

Recidiviz is hiring an Impact Analytics Data Analyst to measure the impact of its products and interventions for the justice-involved population. The analyst will work alongside research and impact-tracking leads to evaluate historical impact, estimate future impact, and inform product strategy and partnerships with funders. The role involves building statistical models, communicating findings to stakeholders, and creating reusable processes for repeated analysis. The analyst will also contribute to aggregated metrics infrastructure and consult with other analysts on experiment design and measurement.

Requirements

Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Enthusiasm for working with internal and external partners from diverse backgrounds and worldviews, including government staff, researchers, journalists, technical staff, and criminal justice reform practitioners.
Ability to inspect source data, reason about data models, examine results closely, and prepare data and analyses for different applications.
At least 2 years of practical experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets.
Professional experience using SQL with large datasets, including high proficiency writing efficient queries for complex data extraction and transformation.
High familiarity with Python, particularly Pandas, for statistical analysis and data visualization.

Nice To Haves

Experience with statistical analysis, especially forecasting and/or causal inference.
Experience translating broad research questions into strategic analysis plans, carrying out those plans, and recommending next steps based on results.
Experience in a cross-functional organization that designs, builds, and launches products for users.
Experience working with large public-sector datasets, especially criminal justice data.
Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python/Pandas.

Responsibilities

Build statistical models using Python and SQL to quantify historical impact and estimate the future impact of Recidiviz interventions on the justice-involved population.
Collaborate with the growth and fundraising team to communicate impact-analysis findings to stakeholders at a range of technical levels.
Build automated workflows to continuously track Recidiviz’s progress in improving outcomes for the justice-involved population.
Work with the impact-tracking and research leads to inform data-driven product strategy.
Define measures of product usage and impact using Python, SQL, Recidiviz’s aggregated metrics framework, and Looker.
Consult with the data analysis and data science team to develop experimental and quasi-experimental rollout analysis methodologies.

Benefits

90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for the employee and dependents.
Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO, 3 paid volunteering days, and 13 paid holidays per year.
401(k) retirement plan with a 5% company match and no vesting period.
12 weeks of paid parental leave.
Complimentary One Medical membership, subject to availability based on location.
Carrot partnership providing fertility and family-forming benefits, as well as some hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits.
Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness.
Free mental health support via Talkspace.
Flexibility to work remotely or from the Oakland or Manhattan office.
Annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings.