State Partnerships Manager (MO)

About the role

The State Partnerships Manager is responsible for building strong relationships, deploying relationship capital, maximizing impact, and creating value for their partner states. Your job is to partner closely with the leadership teams of state prison agencies. These leaders, your new best friends, are responsible for thousands of staff, tens of thousands of people in prison, and billions of dollars. By clearly articulating the specific needs in your partner state, you’ll define and communicate, internally and externally, how exactly Recidiviz will guide your partner states to safely increase liberty for the populations they influence. This role requires regular in-state travel (you would be expected to be holding in-person meetings with Missouri state officials in Jefferson City 3-10 business days per month, with 1-4 days of travel within Missouri to prisons and parole offices across the state).

Responsibilities

• Understand, deconstruct and document the needs of key correctional actors and justice involved individuals
• Build deep relationships with key stakeholders by making them feel heard and supported
• Adapt and deploy Recidiviz core product offerings, and ad hoc data analysis capabilities to delight state partners
• Communicate in clear writing what specific steps ought be taken by product managers, user experience designers, data analysts and implementation engineers for Recidiviz to support your state’s objectives
• Drive partnerships towards success in terms of impact and financial sustainability
• Self-regulation skills to effectively navigate high-intensity experiences with incarcerated individuals and correctional line staff in prison facilities and other challenging environments

Requirements

• Be a proactive problem solver
• Have an understanding of how to make progress in challenging environments
• Bring experience working in or with state governments
• Be a process leader
• Open-minded, humble, and curious
• Be comfortable with, and excited by, technology

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in account management, product management, political strategy / lobbying, business development, policy, or similar role
• Have a connection to the criminal justice system and/or passion for doing work that matters

Skills

• Proactive problem solving
• Stakeholder engagement and relationship management
• Process leadership
• Active and empathetic listening
• Supportive guidance of data analysis and technology products
• Comfort with and excitement for technology

Benefits

• Effective, extremely thoughtful colleagues, working together on a mission that matters
• 90% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible time off, including 20 days of PTO and 13 paid holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• Complimentary One Medical membership (depending on location)
• Partnership with Carrot to provide employees with inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits, as well as a small but growing number of hormonal health and gender-affirming care benefits
• Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness
• Free mental health support via Talkspace
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

Pay

Compensation is standardized based on roles and responsibilities. This ensures equitable compensation and responsible stewardship of our resources. As such, we do not negotiate compensation offers.

The expected salary range for this role is $112,000-$131,000. Actual pay depends on a combination of demonstrated skills, scope, and relevant experience.

Schedule

Work from home with frequent in-person meetings with Missouri state officials in Jefferson City 3-10 business days per month, plus 1-4 days of travel within Missouri to prisons and parole offices across the state per month.