State Partnerships Manager; St. Louis, MO

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

Role Type: Full‑time

Compensation
: $112,000–$131,000

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 3+ years

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.

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 St. Louis officials 3-10 business days per month, with 1-4 days of travel within Missouri 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 St. Louis, MO for this particular role.

• 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

• 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 Missouri government agencies, and have existing relationships you can leverage. You’re able to hit the ground running and deepen engagement quickly by building on those trusted relationships.
• 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. Y…