Remote Data Analyst — Driving Data-Driven Justice

Recidiviz; Oakland (CA); Remote; USD 72,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Recidiviz is hiring a Data Analyst to join a small, fast-moving team working with complex criminal justice data from state partners. You will develop analyses, build visualizations, and prepare data for product launches in multiple states.

The role targets early-to-mid career data professionals with strong SQL and Python (Pandas), plus collaboration with government partners. Remote work is available with options in Oakland and NYC.

Qualifications

• 6 or more months of practical experience exploring, analyzing, and cleaning real-world datasets.
• Working proficiency in SQL, including joins, aggregations, and window functions
• Familiarity with Python, specifically the Pandas package, for data analysis and visualization
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• 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
• Care and curiosity in inspecting source data and checking results closely, so the data and analyses you prepare can be trusted and reused

Responsibilities

• Exploring our datasets to find patterns and insights about American criminal justice systems
• Carrying out well-scoped analyses with guidance from senior analysts and our State Engagement team
• Supporting product launches in the states where we work by following established launch processes, preparing the analytical data each launch needs, and flagging data discrepancies as they come up
• Building clear, well-documented visualizations and dashboards using our existing tools
• Communicating findings to internal teams, and presenting to state partners alongside teammates
• Analyzing trends in areas related to our own work to understand how our products function

Skills

SQL

Python

Pandas

Communication

Collaboration

Data cleaning

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

Jupyter notebooks

Job description

Recidiviz is hiring a Data Analyst to join a small, fast-moving team working with complex criminal justice data from state partners. You will develop analyses, build visualizations, and prepare data for product launches in multiple states.

The role targets early-to-mid career data professionals with strong SQL and Python (Pandas), plus collaboration with government partners. Remote work is available with options in Oakland and NYC.