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About the Role

HR&A Labs is seeking a Data Science and Analytics Specialist to support the rapid growth of our digital services offerings. This role is for early-career professionals with roughly 2-4 years of experience who want to grow into owning the substance of client and internal deliverables. As a Data Science and Analytics Specialist, you will contribute to and increasingly drive complex data analytics, visualization, and web development work, with high impact across numerous projects and the opportunity to build both our clients' capacities and your own skills quickly.

Responsibilities

Conduct data and geospatial analysis.
Develop visualizations.
Build interactive tools and dashboards.
Develop methodologies for key economic indicators.
Procure and analyze large datasets.
Build and maintain data systems and tools.
Contribute to fast-moving project teams.
Drive discrete pieces of work and grow into leading workstreams.
Support the design and implementation of internal data tools.
Provide data science and analytics expertise across a wide set of business lines.

Requirements

2-4 years of relevant professional experience, or a strong portfolio that demonstrates equivalent capability in analytics and product thinking.
Proficiency in Python, including geospatial analysis and packages (e.g., GeoPandas, Shapely).
Demonstrated ability to work with census data, PUMS, and other economic and demographic datasets.
Proficiency cleaning, manipulating, and merging public, proprietary, and internal datasets for analysis.
Fluency with LLMs and other AI tools as part of a daily workflow, paired with the judgment to independently verify data and AI outputs and catch when they are wrong.
Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to translate technical analysis into something a non-technical client can read and act on.
Evidence of self-directed drive: something you built, shipped, or contributed to that nobody assigned you (a side project, a tool, an open-source contribution).
Ability to manage your own deadlines across multiple workstreams and escalate early when something is at risk.

Skills

Python
Geospatial analysis
GeoPandas
Shapely
Census data analysis
PUMS data analysis
Economic datasets analysis
Demographic datasets analysis
Data cleaning
Data manipulation
Data merging
LLMs
AI tools
Written communication
Verbal communication
Product thinking
Web development
Data analytics
Data visualization
React/Next.js
FastAPI
Spatial data infrastructure
PostGIS
Vector tiles
DuckDB
Vicinity/buffer analysis
Site suitability analysis
Socio-economic analysis
Product design
Rapid prototyping
Generative AI tools
Wireframing

Location

New York

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Early-career
2-4 years of relevant professional experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred) with a focus on data science/analytics, geographic information science/analytics, urban planning/design/data, regional science/analytics, architecture, economics, business, public policy, real estate, or other related fields.

Salary/Compensations

$83,200 to $98,571
Discretionary year-end bonus

Benefits

Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Retirement accounts
Healthcare premiums coverage (90-95%)
Dental coverage
Vision coverage

About the Company

HR&A Advisors, Inc. (HR&A) is an employee-owned company advising public, private, non-profit, and philanthropic clients on how to increase opportunity and advance quality of life in cities.
We believe in creating vital places, building equitable and resilient communities, and improving people’s lives.
From Brooklyn to London, Medellin to Hong Kong, we have guided hundreds of clients in transforming real estate and economic development concepts, and public infrastructure, first into actionable plans and then into job-producing, community-strengthening assets.
Our clients include real estate owners and investors, hospitals and universities, cultural institutions and philanthropies, community development organizations, and governments.
HR&A has offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Raleigh, Washington D.C. and the Bay Area.
We come from diverse backgrounds, have a breadth of lived experience, and share a passion for cities.
We are former city officials, executive directors, planners, lawyers, architects, and economists.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, medical condition, veteran status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.