Staff People Analytics Partner

Ongoing

Internal consulting on high-impact questions from Recruiting, Compensation, People Operations, Employee Relations, and Talent Development.

What You Will Do

Build the foundation

• Lead a full audit of People data quality, completeness, consistency, and governance
• Partner with Information Systems on a unified People data model that becomes the single source of truth
• Define standard People metrics and KPIs, with clear definitions, calculation logic, and documentation

Deliver insight leaders act on

• Build attrition and flight-risk models and turn the findings into practical retention strategies
• Analyze what drives hiring outcomes, retention, performance, and engagement
• Evaluate People programs and policies with rigorous methods, including causal inference where it fits
• Support pay equity reviews, market benchmarking, and merit and promotion modeling
• Build workforce planning and headcount forecasting models

Make data self-service

• Design and maintain Quarterly Business Review (QBR) dashboard for executives (ex: Tableau dashboards for headcount, hiring funnel, attrition, compensation, performance, learning, and engagement.)
• Enable key stakeholders to access data for common reporting needs (talent review data, performance data, succession planning summaries by department)

Partner and influence

• Help People leaders find their highest-value questions and scope them into clear projects
• Present findings clearly and persuasively to executives and non-technical audiences
• Champion the privacy, security, and ethical use of employee data, including strict confidentiality when working with Employee Relations

Build the function

• Own the People Analytics strategy and roadmap
• Create the processes and standards the team will scale on, and help shape its future structure and hiring

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors in Statistics, I/O Psychology, Economics, Data Science, or a related field
• 8+ years in People, Workforce, or HR Analytics, or a closely related quantitative role
• Advanced SQL, including data modeling and data quality auditing
• Hands-on experience in a data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks)
• Advanced Tableau, including dashboards built for leadership audiences
• Strong applied statistics, including regression and inferential methods
• Experience building attrition or retention models
• Experience handling confidential employee data
• A track record of influencing senior stakeholders with clear recommendations

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Masters or PhD in Statistics, I/O Psychology, Economics, Data Science, or a related field
• R or Python
• Survival analysis, multilevel or longitudinal models, or Bayesian hierarchical modeling
• Causal inference (difference-in-differences, propensity score matching, regression discontinuity)
• Pay equity and compensation modeling
• Modern ELT tools (Fivetran, Airbyte, dlt, dbt)
• Using AI and agentic tools (such as Claude Desktop or Claude Code) to speed up analytics work
• Survey design and psychometrics (reliability and validity)
• Familiarity with EEO-1, CCPA, and employment data compliance
• Experience in aerospace, defense, or other technical environments
• Experience as the first analytics hire or building a function from scratch

Additional Requirements

• Fully onsite at our Long Beach, CA location.
• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State

Pay Range

California $137,546 - $195,249 USD

We calibrate level and compensation to the selected candidate's experience and demonstrated capability. We welcome applicants across a range of experience levels to apply.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary will vary depending on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand. Salary is just one component of our comprehensive compensation package.

Full-time employees also receive company equity, as well as access to a full suite of compelling benefits and perks, including: medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, generous paid time off; up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff and up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff with the ability to cash-out unused vacation annually, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health, and other discounts and perks.

We also take pride in offering exceptional food perks, with snacks, drip coffee & onsite barista, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge, and lunch subsidized as part of Vast's ongoing commitment to providing high-quality meals for employees.