Data Analyst

Recidiviz

Data Analyst at Recidiviz working on complex criminal justice data analysis and developing impactful tools. Collaborating across teams to drive insights and improvements in the justice system.

Posted 5/14/2026full-timeRemote • California, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $97,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PandasPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

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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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLdata analysisdata modelingdata processingstatistical analysisdata visualizationPandas

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationdata-oriented cultureenthusiasm for diversitystakeholder engagement