State Partnerships Manager (Austin, TX)

Location: Austin, TX (work from home with frequent in-person meetings with Austin officials 3-10 business days per month), plus 1-4 days of travel within Texas to prisons and parole offices across the state per month

• Note on Relocation: Recidiviz does not pay for relocation but we welcome candidates who are currently based in Austin, TX or are planning to be based there within a month of their start date.

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation:  $112,000-$131,000

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 3+ years

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Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a State Partnerships Manager to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving group that partners closely with state correctional departments to safely and equitably reduce prison populations. That’s where you come in. You’re someone with a blend of the abilities you might see from exceptional account managers, product managers, and political strategists. You’re able to captivate an audience while telling a story, to use data effectively, and to run good meetings and get things done. Most of all you are someone who brings rigor to their work and levity to their relationships. You don't need to have direct experience with criminal justice reform but care deeply about doing work that matters. 

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for justice-involved people. We build tech that reduces the number of people in prison and helps criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. 

Using modern data infrastructure and thoughtful product design, we’ve been able to safely and permanently reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side-by-side with leaders of the criminal justice system, justice-impacted individuals, and ecosystem partners to build a better path forward. In addition to the revenue we earn from state partners, some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations support our work.

People who succeed at Recidiviz lead with kindness and humility, assume good intent, learn from failure, and fix problems when they see them.

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 Austin officials 3-10 business days per month, with 1-4 days of travel within Texas to prisons and parole offices across the state.

While Recidiviz employees are based throughout the country, we are looking for someone who lives within commuting distance to Austin, Texas for this particular role. We do not pay for relocation, but we welcome candidates who are currently based in Austin or are planning to be based there within a month of their start date.

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

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 templ