Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA
Role Type: Full-time
Compensation: $97,000
Visa sponsorship: Not available
Hires remotely in: United States
Experience: 2+ years of full-time, professional work experience
The Impact Analytics Data Analyst will work alongside the research and impact tracking leads to analyze the impact of Recidiviz's products and interventions. They will build statistical models, communicate findings with stakeholders, and build reusable processes to facilitate repeated analyses. They will also contribute to aggregated metrics infrastructure and consult with other data analysts to design and measure experiments.
Core responsibilities- Build statistical models using Python and SQL to quantify historical impact and estimate future impact of Recidiviz interventions on the justice-involved population
- Collaborate with Recidiviz's growth and fundraising team to communicate impact analysis findings with stakeholders at a range of technical altitudes
- Build automated workflows to continuously track Recidiviz's progress in improving outcomes for the justice-involved population
- Work closely with the impact tracking and research leads on the impact analytics team to inform data-driven product strategy at Recidiviz
- Define measures of product usage and impact in Python and SQL through 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
Wild successOne year into the role, you will have developed a model that estimates Recidiviz's impact on the justice-involved population over the next several years. That model, alongside other impact evaluations you conduct, will have enriched both Recidiviz's partnerships with funders and product strategy efforts with a more detailed understanding of how Recidiviz interventions can improve outcomes for the justice-involved population.
Minimum qualifications- 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
Preferred qualifications- Experience with statistical analysis, specifically forecasting and/or causal inference
- Experience translating nebulous research questions into strategic analysis plans, executing those plans, and recommending future courses of action informed by analysis results
- 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
CompensationCompensation is standardized based on roles and responsibilities. This ensures equitable compensation and responsible stewardship of our resources. As such, we do not negotiate compensation offers.
The annual compensation for this role is: $97,000.
What we offer- 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 per year
- 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based 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 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
