Senior Labor Market Data Scientist — Insights Leader

UKG; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 151,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Principal Labor Market Data Scientist to lead hands-on research and analysis focused on labor and workforce insights. You will own work from defining questions to validating findings and communicating their significance to business leaders.

As a senior contributor, you will combine UKG data with external labor sources, develop timely insights, and mentor other data scientists while partnering with economists and Communications to support executive discussions and media

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field (stats, data science, economics, CS, math).
• 8+ years of relevant data science or quantitative research experience with senior-level ownership.
• Hands-on experience analyzing labor market or workforce data and producing research or indicators.
• Deep applied statistics: time-series, sampling/weighting, hypothesis testing, uncertainty estimation.
• Strong SQL and Python skills; ability to work independently with large datasets.
• Ability to assess data quality, reconcile sources, and explain methodological impacts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with labor economists and Communications to define questions and produce validated analyses and materials for briefings and media prep.
• Lead original research on hiring, separations, hours worked, wages, labor supply, and other workforce trends across geographies and sectors.
• Deliver executive briefings, charts, talking points, and supporting analysis for customer discussions and media engagements.
• Translate quantitative findings into concise materials for leaders and business audiences.
• Own analytical responses to urgent executive and media questions with clear context and limitations.
• Combine large-scale UKG workforce data with public and external labor data; evaluate source definitions and comparability.
• Develop and validate statistical methods for workforce indicators, address seasonality and data revisions, and distinguish correlation from causation.
• Build reproducible analysis and reporting workflows using SQL and Python with versioned code and automated checks.
• Review numerical accuracy and interpretation of findings; explain uncertainty and when to pause for further analysis.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and data owners to resolve data issues and uphold privacy standards.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor data scientists, leading workstreams independently.

Skills

Labor market data

Statistics

Economic analysis

Data visualization

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in statistics, data science, economics, computer science, mathematics

Tools

SQL

Python

BigQuery

Job description

UKG is seeking a Principal Labor Market Data Scientist to lead hands-on research and analysis focused on labor and workforce insights. You will own work from defining questions to validating findings and communicating their significance to business leaders.

As a senior contributor, you will combine UKG data with external labor sources, develop timely insights, and mentor other data scientists while partnering with economists and Communications to support executive discussions and media