Senior Labor Market Data Scientist: Insights Leader

UKG; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 151,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG seeks a Principal Labor Market Data Scientist to lead hands-on research that blends UKG workforce data with external labor market sources. You will own questions from definition to validation and explain findings to business leaders.

Work highly independently, mentor others, and support executive discussions, media engagements, and thought leadership. You will develop reproducible workflows, tackle seasonality and data quality issues, and collaborate with economists and product partners to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in statistics, data science, economics, CS, mathematics or related field.
• 8+ years of relevant data science or quantitative research experience with ownership of analytical work.
• Hands-on experience with labor market or workforce data and producing insights.
• Deep applied statistics including time-series, sampling, hypothesis testing, uncertainty estimation.
• Strong SQL and Python skills with ability to build reproducible workflows.
• Ability to explain findings clearly to technical and non-technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with economists and Communications to define research questions and produce analyses for executive briefings.
• Lead original research on hiring, separations, hours worked, wages, and labor trends across geographies.
• Deliver charts, talking points, and supporting analysis for customer discussions and media engagements.
• Translate quantitative findings into concise materials for leaders and public use.
• Own analytical responses to urgent executive and media questions with clear context.
• Combine internal workforce data with public data and evaluate data quality and comparability.
• Develop and validate statistical methods for workforce indicators and trends.
• Build reproducible analysis workflows using SQL and Python with documented methods.
• Review numerical accuracy and interpretation of findings and explain uncertainties.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and data owners to resolve data quality issues.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor data scientists on research design and code reviews.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Communication

Research design

Education

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

Master’s or PhD in a relevant quantitative discipline

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

BigQuery

Job description

UKG seeks a Principal Labor Market Data Scientist to lead hands-on research that blends UKG workforce data with external labor market sources. You will own questions from definition to validation and explain findings to business leaders.

Work highly independently, mentor others, and support executive discussions, media engagements, and thought leadership. You will develop reproducible workflows, tackle seasonality and data quality issues, and collaborate with economists and product partners to