Recidiviz The State Partnerships Manager at Recidiviz builds strong relationships with state correctional departments to safely reduce prison populations. This role involves frequent travel and partnership with state prison agency leadership.
Responsibilities
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 travel (you would be expected to hold in-person meetings with state officials and travel to prisons and parole offices on average 3-5 business days per month).
Core 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
Qualification
Be a proactive problem solverBe a process leaderOpen-mindedBe comfortable withExperience in account management
Required
Be a proactive problem solver. We’re looking for someone quick to try to solve new problems they come across, rather than hoping someone else will get it — whether it’s a missing template for a recurring meeting or spilled cereal in the office.
Have an understanding of how to make progress in challenging environments. You have a successful track record of stakeholder engagement and relationship management. You have a boundless commitment to the combination of creativity and persistence. Former colleagues describe you as the person who makes sure the changes that matter actually get implemented.
Bring experience working in or with state governments. You've worked in or alongside state or local government agencies, and know how to build trust and relationships quickly in a new environment.
Be a process leader. Good ideas are nothing without excellent implementation. You’re excited about building replicable, clear processes internally and externally. You’re a clear communicator and documentation wizard with a successful track record of managing cross-functional teams.
Open-minded, humble, and curious. You are eager to learn and especially capable of active and empathetic listening, particularly with our partners, who are often subject matter experts in their own right.
Be comfortable with, and excited by, technology: You are eager to supportively guide data analysis and technology products. You’re excited to work with a fast-moving team, helping it bring order and prioritization to complexity, while also respecting—and enjoying—the need to be flexible.
Experience in account management, product management, political strategy / lobbying, business development, policy, or similar role.
Willing and able to travel frequently on the cadence described above, including to correctional facilities.
Preferred
Have a connection to the criminal justice system and/or passion for doing work that matters: You have either lived or working experience with the operations and consequences of America's criminal justice system. You don’t need to know everything about the field, but it is helpful if the design and efficacy of our criminal justice processes feel like issues that you cannot choose to ignore.
