Analyst, Tech & Society

ABOUT US

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.

HR&A is building a new Tech & Society Studio, with a mission to help communities build and use technology to solve problems made worse by technology. Tech & Society builds on more than a decade of work developing and evaluating the impacts of digital infrastructure and tech policies and programs for clients that include state and local governments, universities, philanthropies, community-based organizations, and disruptive tech companies.

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.

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.

HR&A is seeking to hire an Analyst, Tech & Society in our New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles or San Francisco Bay Area office. As an Analyst in the Technology & Society Studio, you will be a core member of project teams across a portfolio of projects, for which examples include: making the internet work for New York with New York State's ConnectA All Office, transforming the social service infrastructure of Clark County, Nevada, building capacity in Texas's digital inclusion ecosystem, supporting technology infrastructure providers in disrupting monopolies, advancing the Public AI movement, and designing and managing multi-million-dollar programs at the intersection of these issues.

We’re looking for someone who:

• Understands how, why, and where technology gets built — and for whom it doesn’t — and why its benefits are inequitably distributed across communities.
• Has worked or studied at the intersections where hard problems live and new solutions are needed: of policy and product, industry and community, global infrastructure and local interests.
• Can communicate clearly between public servants, community stakeholders, technical teams, and business executives.
• Is rigorous enough to produce unimpeachable analysis and entrepreneurial enough to take initiative on problems that don’t come with instructions.
• Brings curiosity and independent judgment to complex, ambiguous work — and isn’t waiting to be told what the question is.

Analysts are early-career professionals with 2–4 years of experience who form the foundation of our team-oriented and collaborative structure and help drive our data-driven approach to client work. We’re specifically looking for people who combine policy and planning depth with practical technology literacy — candidates who can evaluate a procurement, support a community engagement process, contribute to an economic and fiscal impact analysis, and write a clear memo for an executive, often on the same project.

• Quantitative and qualitative analysis, including economic and fiscal impact modeling, policy analysis, market research, and program evaluation.
• Developing written reports, client presentations, and financial models that translate complex findings for public, private, and civic sector audiences.
• Supporting community engagement processes, including facilitation, stakeholder interviews, and participatory design.
• Contributing to business development through proposal writing and firm marketing materials.
• Applying AI tools and emerging analytical methods to accelerate research, modeling, and deliverable production, with sound judgment about when and how to use them, as well as how to address inherent biases.

We are looking for candidates with strong quantitative and qualitative skills, a genuine curiosity about technology’s…