Senior Policy Data Analyst

New York CityRemoteFull-time$120k2026-10-19 → 2026-11-10

HybridNo visa sponsorship

Core

Senior Policy Data Analyst building decision-support analysis for criminal justice policy reforms using corrections and parole data.

Role type

Senior IC data analyst (policy modeling)

Builds

Policy scenario models and decision-support materials for state DOC leaders

Domain

Criminal justice / Public sector policy

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

SQL, Python (pandas), statistical modeling, data wrangling, project scoping, stakeholder communication

Preferred skills

Public sector administrative data, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks

Technologies

SQL, Python, pandas, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks

Responsibilities

Wrangle administrative corrections and parole data using SQL and Python; Model policy scenarios and quantify tradeoffs using statistical methods; Communicate findings to DOC leadership via decks and memos; Own end-to-end analytic process from objective to delivery; Collaborate across organization to support policy implementation.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About Recidiviz

200 Employees

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we've built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator's 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.