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People Data Analyst
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About this role
Role overview
Turn workforce questions into trusted analysis and practical recommendations across the employee lifecycle, from hiring and onboarding to retention, mobility, performance, compensation, and engagement. You’ll build the data foundation and analytical products behind people intelligence, partnering with technical teams and business stakeholders while helping develop more proactive, AI-enabled analytics.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain curated, analysis-ready people data using SQL, Python, and a cloud data platform. - Work with data engineering and warehouse teams to define requirements and integrate sources such as HR and recruiting systems. - Build dashboards and other analytical tools, including AI-supported applications, conversational interfaces, and automated insight delivery. - Track workforce measures such as headcount, hiring, attrition, retention, promotions, mobility, organizational structure, and representation. - Lead projects from scoping and data preparation through analysis, visualization, and presentation; topics may include attrition drivers, promotion equity, segmentation, and onboarding effectiveness. - Identify emerging workforce risks and opportunities, then communicate clear recommendations to People and business leaders. - Maintain consistent metric definitions, validate data quality, and protect sensitive employee information through appropriate governance and access controls.
Requirements
- Three to five years in data analytics, business intelligence, or analytics engineering, with ownership of projects from start to finish. - Strong SQL skills and working knowledge of Python for querying, transforming, and analyzing large datasets. - Experience with a modern cloud data platform such as Databricks or Snowflake; Databricks is preferred. - Background in data modeling and building curated datasets for reporting and downstream analysis. - Experience delivering production-ready dashboards or BI solutions using Tableau, Databricks, Power BI, or similar tools. - Ability to clarify ambiguous stakeholder needs, explain complex findings, and translate them into useful decisions.
Nice to have
Experience creating AI-powered analytics applications, conversational tools, or automated insight delivery; statistical or predictive modeling; and exposure to workforce planning, HR analytics, organizational effectiveness, governance, or sensitive-data security.
Benefits and work setup
The position is based in San José, Costa Rica, and applicants must be permanently located in Costa Rica. The listing describes employer-paid health coverage, wellbeing and counseling support, life and disability insurance, paid leave and recharge days, family leave, and paid volunteer time. Applications are required in English.