Staff Data Analyst, Predictive People Analytics

Okta; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Okta seeks a Staff Data Analyst within People Analytics to design and deliver analytics solutions shaping workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, and employee experience. You will develop predictive models, scalable dashboards, and apply emerging AI to solve workforce challenges while partnering with cross‑functional teams.

You will translate business questions into analytical approaches, ensure data quality, and deliver executive‑ready insights for stakeholders across the organization

Qualifications

• 7+ years in People Analytics or related analytics discipline.
• Strong data visualization, data warehousing, SQL querying, and reporting skills.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and report on the entire employee lifecycle—from hiring and onboarding through development and exit—by designing dashboards and reports that provide insights into hiring, attrition, engagement, performance, promotions, compensation, headcount, and organisational health.
• Partner with People Team leaders, stakeholders across the business, and data teams to translate business questions into analytical approaches, ensure data quality and governance, and deliver executive‑ready insights.
• Design, build, and maintain predictive analytics models that identify workforce trends, risks, and opportunities, including attrition prediction, workforce forecasting, employee lifecycle analysis, and talent pipeline analytics.
• Apply advanced statistical methods including regression, clustering, forecasting, survival analysis, and segmentation to solve complex workforce challenges and inform strategic decision‑making.
• Analyze employee feedback from surveys, onboarding, exit interviews, and other listening channels using NLP and text analytics to identify emerging themes and actionable insights.
• Explore and prototype generative AI use cases that automate narrative reporting, summarise workforce trends, and enhance decision support while maintaining governance and data privacy standards.

Skills

People Analytics

HR Analytics

Data Science

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Analytics, Economics, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Tableau

Snowflake

Excel

SQL

Workday

ServiceNow

Greenhouse

Job description

Okta seeks a Staff Data Analyst within People Analytics to design and deliver analytics solutions shaping workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, and employee experience. You will develop predictive models, scalable dashboards, and apply emerging AI to solve workforce challenges while partnering with cross‑functional teams.

You will translate business questions into analytical approaches, ensure data quality, and deliver executive‑ready insights for stakeholders across the organization