Senior Policy Data Analyst (Criminal Justice)

Location: Remote within the United States, or based in New York City or Oakland. Travel to state partners within the continental USA is encouraged approximately every 6 months and may occasionally be required, including visits to prisons and parole offices. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation: $120,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a technology-focused nonprofit that uses software, product design, administrative data, and analytics to improve outcomes in the criminal justice system and reduce incarceration.

What you will do

• Build analyses from corrections and parole administrative data using SQL and Python.
• Model policy scenarios and quantify tradeoffs using regressions, time series, stock-and-flow modeling, and distributional analysis.
• Translate complex findings into decks, memos, and decision-support frameworks for state Department of Corrections leadership and other stakeholders.
• Own analytical projects end to end, including scoping objectives, setting roadmaps, managing uncertainty, adapting to changing priorities, and delivering findings.
• Collaborate across hirify.global to obtain state context, understand data infrastructure, and support policy implementation.
• Identify additional analytical opportunities in partner states and assess whether they should become new work.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of practical experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets.
• Professional experience using SQL with large datasets, including high proficiency writing efficient queries for complex extraction and transformation.
• Professional experience with Python, particularly pandas, for statistical analysis and data visualization.
• Sufficient statistical background to reason about analysis design, examine results closely, and prepare analyses that hold up to scrutiny.
• Experience scoping and delivering analytical work, particularly balancing depth and speed across short timelines and shifting priorities.
• Experience on teams where ownership is shared across functions, including proactively seeking missing context and flagging risks before they become blockers.

Nice to have

• Experience adapting quantitative methods to introduce intuitively meaningful metrics in ambiguous, unconstrained contexts.
• Experience working with large public-sector administrative datasets, especially datasets related to criminal justice.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python/Pandas.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work or the option to work from offices in Oakland or Manhattan.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance covering 90% for employees and dependents.
• 20 days of PTO, 3 paid volunteering days, 13 paid holidays, and 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 5% company match and no vesting period.
• One Medical membership where available, fertility and family-forming benefits, wellness credit, and mental health support.
• Annual company offsite and additional gatherings; startup-level challenges within a mission-driven nonprofit environment.