Data Analyst

Recidiviz is a mission-driven organization building technology to reduce incarceration and improve criminal justice outcomes through data-driven decision-making. The Data Analyst will work with complex criminal justice datasets and cross-functional teams to generate insights, improve tooling, and ensure analytics readiness for product launches across states.

• Explore datasets to uncover insights about American criminal justice systems.
• Contextualize and communicate key findings to internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with State Engagement and Implementation Engineering to design and execute state roadmaps that drive impact.
• Partner with Product Management, Data Science, and Software Engineering to bring analyses and data modeling into production software.
• Analyze trends and changes related to Recidiviz’s work to understand product performance and outcomes.

• 2+ years of full-time, professional work experience, including practical experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills and ability to work with diverse internal and external partners.
• Ability to inspect source data, reason about data models, validate results, and prepare usable datasets and analyses.
• High proficiency with SQL for large datasets, including writing efficient queries for complex extraction and transformation.
• High familiarity with Python, especially Pandas, for statistical analysis and data visualization.

• Preferred: experience in cross-functional product organizations; experience with public sector/criminal justice datasets; familiarity with GCP, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python/Pandas.

• Full-time role.
• Remote within the United States, with office flexibility in Oakland and Manhattan.
• Travel encouraged about once every 6 months (and occasionally required) to state partners within the continental USA; may include visits to prisons and parole offices.
• Benefits include 90% medical/dental/vision coverage for employee and dependents, flexible time off (20 PTO days), 3 paid volunteering days, 13 paid holidays, 12 weeks paid parental leave, 401(k) with 5% match and no vesting, One Medical membership (location-dependent), fertility/family-forming benefits via Carrot, monthly ClassPass credit, and mental health support via Talkspace.
• Annual company offsite and other gatherings.
• No visa sponsorship; compensation is standardized and non-negotiable.