Principal Labor Market Data Scientist
Core
Lead hands-on research and analysis to turn UKG workforce data into insights for executive briefings, media, and customer discussions.
Role type
Principal individual contributor data scientist (labor market)
Builds
Executive briefings, charts, talking points, and validated analyses for leadership and public use
Domain
Workforce analytics and labor market research
Deliverable
dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Time-series analysis, sampling and weighting, hypothesis testing, uncertainty estimation, SQL, Python, data quality assessment, statistical method development, causal inference, econometrics
Preferred skills
Master's or PhD in quantitative discipline, experience at statistical agency or payroll provider, corporate communications support, Google Cloud Platform/BigQuery, workforce management data
Technologies
SQL, Python, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery
Responsibilities
Partner with economists to define research questions and produce validated analyses; Lead original research on hiring, separations, wages, and labor supply; Deliver executive briefings and media materials; Combine UKG data with external labor market sources; Develop and validate statistical methods for workforce indicators; Build reproducible analysis workflows; Review numerical accuracy and interpret findings; Provide technical leadership and mentor data scientists
