Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. They are seeking a Data Analyst to work with complex criminal justice data, perform analyses, and contribute to tooling that improves their data and drives product launches.
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
- 2+ years of full-time, professional work experience
- 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
- 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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