WORK OPTION: The NBA currently provides eligible employees the option of working remotely one day per week.
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Position Summary
Leverage advanced analytics and consulting expertise to empower HR with actionable insights, predictive models, and scalable self-service tools. Drive workforce health by identifying risks, enabling data-informed decisions, and collaborating across prioritized areas of HR to deliver impact.
Major Responsibilities
- Serve as a strategic analytics consultant, partnering with HR to deliver actionable insights, predictive models, and scalable tools to guide interventions.
- Support responsible AI governance in People Analytics by documenting people analytics and broader HR use cases, testing functionality, gathering requirements, and other steps.
- Assist in the building of analytical frameworks measuring workforce health across turnover, engagement, performance, promotions, and other key HR areas.
- Help develop validation of algorithmic outputs from AI-enabled talent platforms ensuring statistical rigor and fairness.
- Design automated monitoring systems surfacing leading indicators of workforce risk.
- Contribute to development of predictive models identifying which key workforce areas are likely to decline on prioritized metrics.
- Create dashboards and concise presentations synthesizing complex workforce patterns into decision-ready intelligence.
- Conduct diagnostic analyses translating business questions into testable hypotheses and recommendations using statistical methods.
- Enhance analytics team capability building through methodology documentation and knowledge sharing.
- Scale data literacy across HR through training delivery and documentation.
Required Education/Professional Experience
- 2+ years in HR analytics, HR data science, HR business intelligence, and/or HR consulting roles.
- Demonstrated ability designing analytical solutions that influenced business strategy and/or HR decision-making.
- Track record managing technical projects requiring stakeholder translation and change management.
Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes
- Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Quantitative analysis skills including statistical methods and trend identification.
- Advanced Excel including pivot tables, complex formulas, and statistical functions.
- Data storytelling ability translating technical findings into executive narratives with recommendations and compelling data visualizations.
- Interest in Responsible AI practices.
- Consulting skills diagnosing problems, structuring ambiguous questions, and managing stakeholder expectations.
- Business acumen connecting workforce metrics to financial outcomes and strategic HR priorities.
- Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms required.
- Python or R exposure for data manipulation or analysis a plus.
Salary Range
$98,000 - $115,000
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About The NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2024-25 season featured a record-tying 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness.
