Senior Data Analyst (Technical Lead)

Recidiviz•Oakland, CA

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for people who have an attention to detail to provide rigor to our analysis, creativity and inquisitiveness to identify and solve open-ended problems, clarity to think through complex and variable data, flexibility to adjust in a rapidly evolving environment, and above all else, a collaborative, kind nature to add to our culture. About us Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. Using software tools and thoughtful product design, we’ve been able to safely and permanently reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side-by-side with leaders of the criminal justice system, people in prison and on supervision, and ecosystem partners to build a better path forward. In addition to the revenue we earn from state partners, some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations support our work. People who succeed at Recidiviz lead with kindness and humility, assume good intent, learn from failure, and fix problems when they see them. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds. About the role 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. In this role, roughly half of your time will be spent as a technical lead, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver products for specific state partners. You'll 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. We expect these trips to include visits to prisons and parole offices.

Requirements

Experience with technical project management or technical team leadership. You've kept complex, cross-functional technical work organized, tracked, and moving
Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills. You're comfortable working across engineering, product, and data teams, and can translate technical considerations for non-technical partners
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
5 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
Professional work experience and high proficiency using Python, specifically the Pandas library, 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
Experience using project tracking tools such as GitHub Projects

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, and 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 before they become blockers
Analyzing criminal justice datasets to surface insights, and presenting findings to internal and external stakeholders to drive impact
Partnering with State Engagement, Product Management, and Software Engineering to bring data models and analyses into production software

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