Impact Analytics Data Analyst

Recidiviz•New York City, NY

14h•Remote

About The Position

Recidiviz is hiring an Impact Analytics Data Analyst to measure the effects of its products and interventions on the justice-involved population. The analyst will work with research and impact-tracking leads to assess historical impact, estimate future impact, and inform product strategy and partnerships with funders. The role involves building statistical models, communicating findings to stakeholders, creating reusable analytical processes, contributing to aggregated metrics infrastructure, and advising other analysts on experiment design and measurement. Recidiviz builds technology intended to reduce incarceration and help criminal justice leaders make data-driven decisions. The organization works with government leaders and staff, people in prison and on supervision, and ecosystem partners. It values kindness, humility, learning from failure, attentive listening, and building relationships and empathy across the communities it serves. The position is full-time, with work locations available remotely in the United States or at offices in New York City or Oakland, California. The annual compensation is $97,000. The role offers flexibility to work remotely or from either office. Success in the first year includes developing a model estimating Recidiviz’s impact on the justice-involved population over the following several years. This model and other impact evaluations should help deepen funder partnerships and inform product strategy.

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 varied 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, specifically the Pandas package, for statistical analysis and data visualization.

Nice To Haves

Experience with statistical analysis, especially forecasting and/or causal inference.
Experience translating open-ended research questions into strategic analysis plans, executing 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 future impact of Recidiviz interventions.
Collaborate with the growth and fundraising team to communicate impact-analysis findings to stakeholders at varied technical levels.
Build automated workflows to continuously track Recidiviz’s progress in improving outcomes for the justice-involved population.
Work with impact-tracking and research leads to inform data-driven product strategy.
Define measures of product usage and impact using Python and SQL through Recidiviz’s aggregated metrics framework and Looker.
Consult with the data analysis and data science team on experimental and quasi-experimental rollout analysis methodologies.

Benefits

90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees 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, plus some hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits.
Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness.
Free mental health support via Talkspace.
Flexible choice to work remotely or from the Oakland or Manhattan office.
Annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings.