Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation: For employees based in the Oakland or New York City metropolitan areas, where we have offices, the salary for this role is $138,000. For employees based elsewhere in the United States, the salary for this role is $120,000. 

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 5+ years of experience in HR management

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Senior Manager of HR to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving group that partners with folks across the organization to attract, onboard, and support exceptional people who are motivated by meaningful, mission-driven work. As the Senior Manager of Human Resources, you will own the day-to-day HR operations engine that supports our team through every stage of the employee lifecycle.

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. 

Using software tools 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, people in prison and on supervision, 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. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds. 

About the role

As the Senior Manager of HR at Recidiviz, you will lead the core people support, systems and processes that power our team’s experience from hire to transition and everything in between.

This role ensures our People systems run smoothly, compliantly, and with care: from onboarding through offboarding, benefits and leave support, accommodations, Justworks administration, and more. You will serve as a trusted operational partner to the entire team, translating established and evolving People policies into consistent, human-centered execution.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of systems, compliance, and teammate support.

Core responsibilities

• Act as the primary owner for labor relations, from interpersonal dynamics to performance management. 
• Manage the high-touch onboarding and offboarding experience, including offer letters, Justworks entry, welcome calls, provisioning, conducting exit interviews, and drafting termination letters.
• Manage the determination of employment status and ensure the right contracts, agreements and documentation are collected and stored appropriately for all staff. 
• Serve as the primary benefits resource, supporting teammates with insurance questions, enrollment, and transitions.
• Own leave planning and administration, guiding managers and teammates through FMLA, state leaves, parental leave, and medical leave processes.
• Support the evolution of various programs designed to support teammate growth and recognition.
• Handle administrative essentials such as filing, SUI (State Unemployment Insurance) updates, and overseeing laptop management and hardware expense approvals.
• Own and evolve the internship program, from university partnerships and hiring coordination to onboarding and intern programming.

Wild success

Here are a few things you might accomplish in your first year at Recidiviz that would demonstrate wild success in this role:

• Onboarding and offboarding are seamless and high-trust. New hires experience a polished, consistent start, managers are prepared and accountable, and departures are handled professionally, compliantly, and thoughtfully.
• Leave planning and accommodations are clear, documented, and compliant. FMLA, state leaves, ADA requests, and related processes are standardized, confidential, and easy for managers to navigate.
• The internship program is structured and engaging. Managers are equipped to host and develop interns well, and the program becomes a reliable talent pipeline aligned with Recidiviz’s mission.
• Teammates feel emotionally supported and thoughtfully accommodated. Coaching programs (vicarious trauma, ADHD, and other supports) are accessible and well-managed, and employees trust People Ops as a responsive, steady partner.

Minimum qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive HR experience. You have likely been a Generalist or HRBP and are ready to own a broad portfolio of operational and strategic programs.
• You have experience using Justworks, Greenhouse, Culture Amp, or other HRIS and talent software platforms. You are comfortable managing sensitive data across GitHub and Google Workspace.
• When you see a gap in HR capacity—whether in contractor invoicing or intern socials—you don't just point it out; you build the system to fill it.
• You can handle delicate labor relations issues or termination support with high emotional intelligence and professional discretion.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment
• Personal or professional experience working with the criminal justice system

Compensation

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. 

For employees based in the Oakland or New York City metropolitan areas, where we have offices, the salary for this role is $138,000. For employees based elsewhere in the United States, the salary for this role is $120,000. 

What we offer

• 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, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based 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
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

More about Recidiviz

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we’ve built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator’s 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 19 state partners - big and small, red and blue - and touches over 45% of the country’s incarcerated population. We have helped to get hundreds of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably. In addition to partnering with state Departments of Corrections, Recidiviz collaborates with and learns from partners – from organizations like the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) to community based organizations and justice-impacted individuals, whose perspectives guide our work.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2025 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk. And if you’re really keen to see our work, you can dive into our Github :).

An important note

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look – you might be great for another role or another time!

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland

• Please note:
  • This role involves 25-40% travel within the continental US, up to 4 trips per quarter. We expect these trips to include visits to prisons and parole offices.
  • Candidate must be licensed and able to drive a car for 2+ hours at a time for state trips.

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation: For employees based in the Oakland, CA, and New York City, NY, metropolitan areas, the salary for this role is $120,000. For employees based elsewhere in the United States, the salary for this role is $93,000. 

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 3+ years of relevant work experience 

Recidiviz is excited to bring on a Product Growth Manager to join the Product Growth team! We’re a small, fast-moving team that is tasked with increasing the impact of our products by driving up usage and adoption in our partner states. Our team works directly with our users within state Departments of Corrections, such as parole and probation officers, case managers, supervisors, and justice-impacted individuals, to build relationships that can turn non-users into power users and power users into evangelists. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for someone to be the face of Recidiviz to our users, to have boots on the ground increasing adoption and impact of Recidiviz tools. 

Please note this role is not a Product Manager and does not handle product development.

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by reducing incarceration safely, equitably, and at scale. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. 

Using software tools 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, people in prison and on supervision, 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. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds. 

About the role

We’re looking for an empathetic, collaborative, fast learner who is able to quickly develop a deep understanding of our tools to help launch, land, and grow our tools with a diverse set of users. What you’ll do:

• Manage new product rollouts onsite and virtually, including training new users
• Run state-agnostic broad-reaching and scaled engagement and adoption tactics
• Run state-specific custom-tailored engagement and adoption tactics
• Manage inbound feedback and support requests from users
• Represent the company’s brand and tone in all external interactions
• Track and measure the results and outcomes of all Product Growth work
• Note: This role involves 25-40% travel within the continental US, up to 4 trips per quarter. We expect these trips to include visits to prisons and parole offices.

Core responsibilities

• (35%) Rollouts: Make sure the product is both launched and landed successfully, getting new users excited about the product and bought into using it regularly, and making sure their perspectives are captured and returned to the internal team. This includes:
• Define and execute a measurement plan
• Go onsite to states and train users on new tools
• Host virtual launch trainings
• Record/create static launch materials eg training videos, posters/fliers, emails
• Communicate and coordinate with state and internal counterparts
• Build and execute a post-launch nurturing plan
• (35%) Scaled adoption tactics: Get more bang for our buck by planning and executing creative and engaging virtual adoption tactics that can scale across all Recidiviz partner states with live tools and can be run from your desk, including things like: 
• Define and execute a measurement plan
• Email awareness and adoption campaigns (sendgrid experience a plus)
• State wide and inter-state usage competitions
• Designating and training on site representatives
• Creating and distributing print materials (lob.com experience a plus)
• (15%) Tailored adoption tactics: Support state leadership in achieving their usage and adoption goals by enabling the tactics they have expressed interest in supporting with state resources, such as:
• Define and execute a measurement plan
• Issuing usage mandates
• Building trainings into new officer onboarding
• Adding entry points to the product from their intranet platforms
• Enabling write-back to their systems from ours
• (15%) User feedback and support: Be the first responder for feedback and support requests, synthesizing bug reports and feature requests from users and communicate it to product, engineering, and state engagement teams. Customer support and feedback categories include:
• Chat from within the product
• Emails to feedback address and others
• Platform configuration and optimization (Intercom experience a plus)
• Volume and capacity tracking and projection 
• Note: Recidiviz does NOT offer phone support for users so this will not be in scope of duties

Wild success

In the first year, a wildly successful hire will:

• Increase the impact that our tools have, like helping more people complete parole and probation sooner or reducing returns to prison
• Increase adoption of our tools so more users are engaging with the tool weekly and monthly
• Shepard new tools to successful launches and landings which demonstrate a higher-than-historical-average baseline of usage
• For every initiative, define and execute a measurement plan to ensure we can track, understand, and replicate the results of our tactics. Measurement can include things like A|B tests (Looker experience a plus), survey-based measurements like Customer Satisfaction rates, counterfactuals, proxies, pre-post analyses, etc.
• Build strong feedback loops that allow the business to easily include user perspectives in product strategy, and allow users to feel heard and valued
• Use data and other analysis and validation methods to clearly and compellingly articulate the impact of your work in terms of team KRs such as Usage, Impact, Scale, Velocity, Quality, and Efficiency
• Balance and execute the projects in the roadmap with high autonomy and to a high degree of rigor and quality
• Be the face of Recidiviz that thousands of criminal justice line staff know and trust

Minimum qualifications

• Willing to travel: We expect this role will require 25-40% of time spent traveling domestically across the US, up to 4 trips per quarter. We expect these trips to include visits to prisons and parole offices.
• Willing to drive: Candidate must be licensed and able to drive a car for 2+ hours at a time for state trips.
• A clear, empathetic communicator: You love people and are able to quickly build rapport and trust with a diverse audience. You are comfortable in a variety of speaking settings, from giving presentations to hundreds of people to leading small group discussions or talking 1:1. You are exceedingly patient and can easily translate tech jargon to common speech for less tech-savvy users (which is most of our users). Strong spoken and written English language communication skills are a must.
• Highly organized: You are able to stay on top of tasks and communications across multiple external stakeholders and states, and balance multiple workstreams with sometimes competing priorities. You will be responsible for coordinating the details of all of your initiatives, including travel logistics, and making sure they are delivered on schedule and to the quality standards established.
• Fast learner: You are able to absorb information in a variety of different contexts and ask a lot of questions. You can ramp up quickly on the criminal justice domain and Recidiviz tools to represent our tools externally. You don’t need to have a technical background, but you need to be able to quickly learn how to synthesize feedback and learnings so it’s actionable to our product and engineering teams.
• Skilled diplomat: You are able to interact diplomatically with a diverse range of stakeholders - across many political affiliations, ages, races, economic groups, genders, and every other demographic factor - and can speak and listen to all of them with respect and without compromising the company values. You are able to represent a potentially controversial mission, company, and product with courage and dignity while balancing the need to keep the conversation focused on the product value props.
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in external-facing and/or project management focused roles

Preferred qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience collaborating with external stakeholders
• Experience with marketing, support, and data technologies such as Intercom, Sendgrid, Lob, Looker, Fullstory, GitHub, and Google Analytics
• Experience working on - and scaling with - a small scrappy team, which has given you perspectives on best practices and strategies for smooth scaling and strengthened your work ethic and ability to operate autonomously  
• Experience working with technical teams and representing software products to users, and tech industry experience in general
• Experience with sales and marketing strategies for overcoming objections and increasing awareness and usage
• Experience running and analyzing scrappy tests as rigorously as feasible without much Data team involvement
• Corrections industry working experience
• Lived experience navigating the corrections system

Compensation

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. 

For employees based in the Oakland, CA, and New York City, NY, metropolitan areas, the salary for this role is $120,000. For employees based elsewhere in the United States, the salary for this role is $93,000.

What we offer

• 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, 3 days of paid volunteering time, 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
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite each spring and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

More about Recidiviz

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we’ve built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator’s 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 18 state partners – big and small, red and blue – and covers more than 40% of the US incarcerated population. We have helped to get tens of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably, and saved states nearly $1 billion. In the next five years, Recidiviz plans to partner with 40 states and help 250,000 people who are stuck in the system to get out and stay out. In addition to partnering with state Departments of Corrections, Recidiviz collaborates with and learns from partners – from organizations like the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) to community based organizations and justice-impacted individuals, whose perspectives guide our work.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2024 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk. And if you’re really keen to see our work, you can dive into our Github :).

An important note

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application or initial call. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look – you might be great for another role or another time!

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland

• Travel of approximately one week per quarter may be required. 

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation:  $97,000

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 2+ years

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Policy Data Analyst to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving group that works with complex criminal justice data from our state partners and develops analyses and tools that target the drivers of incarceration. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for someone who has creativity and inquisitiveness to identify and solve open-ended problems, clarity to think through complex and variable data, flexibility to adjust in a rapidly evolving environment, and above all else, a collaborative, kind nature to add to our culture.

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. 

Using software tools 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, people in prison and on supervision, 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. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds. 

About the role

Recidiviz’s policy team supports state DOC leaders that want to rewrite old policies or implement new ones, rooted in evidence and analytics, to improve outcomes, increase public safety and community health, and drive meaningful changes. We tailor data analysis, built on detailed DOC data, to answer questions like: What combination of criteria best select for probation clients who are safe to discharge? What static factors influence parole decisions today and how would that change if new, dynamic factors were added? How many people would X, Y, or Z adjustment to a policy affect and what can we say about the affected group? By translating concepts into concrete modeling, we help drive smarter and more ambitious change.

This role collaborates across several teams to guide work that targets the drivers of incarceration. Our Policy Data Analysts work with diverse data – criminal justice data both raw and processed from across the country, reports and policy documents from government agencies, and much more – to develop the policy analyses that deepen our understanding of the criminal justice system and motivate policy change. Our Policy Data Analysts translate policy concepts into quantitative metrics, perform analyses, and play a key role in contextualizing and presenting their analyses to stakeholders, both internal and external. 

Travel of approximately one week per quarter may be required. 

Core responsibilities

• Leveraging criminal justice datasets to generate context-responsive insights that expand  momentum for policy reform
• Adapting analytical methods to evidence detailed policy concepts and quantify policy-design tradeoffs
• Contextualizing and communicating key findings to internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborating with our Data Science and Implementation Engineering teams to design and execute on targeted roadmaps that drive impact in the states where we work
• Collaborating with our Product Management and State Engagement teams to bring analyses and data modeling into administrative and legislative policy processes

Wild success

A year from now:

• You’ve driven impact. Your work has informed several policy reforms across the country and has helped quantify the impact those reforms are having on the outcomes of the justice system.
• You’ve leveled up our analytical team. Your contributions to our analytics and processes, as well as your support for your teammates, has helped set our team up to achieve more impact sooner.

Minimum qualifications

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, to help nurture a knowledgeable, data-oriented culture 
• Enthusiasm for working with internal and external partners from diverse backgrounds and worldviews, such as government staff, legislators, political consultants, researchers, journalists, technical staff, and practitioners in criminal justice reform
• Sufficient math or statistical background to reason about analysis design, examine results closely, and prepare data and analyses that are usable for various applications
• 2 or more years of practical experience exploring, analyzing, and processing complex datasets
• Professional work experience using SQL to work with large datasets, including high proficiency writing efficient queries for more complex data extraction and transformation tasks
• High familiarity with Python, specifically Pandas package, for tasks such as statistical analysis and data visualization

Preferred qualifications

• Ability to discern when and how analysis is actionable for stakeholders; ability to “wear your public servant hat” while conducting analysis
• Experience adapting quantitative methods that introduce intuitively meaningful metrics in ambiguous, unconstrained contexts
• Experience balancing depth and speed when navigating short timelines and shifting priorities
• Experience working with large datasets from the public sector, especially related to criminal justice
• Familiarity with our data stack, which includes Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Looker, Jupyter notebooks, and Python/Pandas

Compensation

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 compensation for this role is: $97,000.

What we offer

• 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, 3 days of paid volunteering time, 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
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite each spring and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

More about Recidiviz

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we’ve built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator’s 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 18 state partners – big and small, red and blue – and covers more than 40% of the US incarcerated population. We have helped to get tens of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably, and saved states nearly $1 billion. In the next five years, Recidiviz plans to partner with 40 states and help 250,000 people who are stuck in the system to get out and stay out. In addition to partnering with state Departments of Corrections, Recidiviz collaborates with and learns from partners – from organizations like the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) to community based organizations and justice-impacted individuals, whose perspectives guide our work.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2024 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk. And if you’re really keen to see our work, you can dive into our Github :).

An important note

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look – you might be great for another role or another time!

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA

• Travel Requirement: Occasional travel (estimated 10%) to visit state partner sites for onboarding, relationship-building, and technical scoping. Travel is typically planned in advance and clustered around key milestones (e.g., new state launch, initiative kick-off).

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation:  $97,000

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 2+ years

Skills: SQL, Google Cloud Platform, Python, Relationship Building

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring an Implementation Engineer to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving group that partners with state governments to identify opportunities for impact in the criminal justice space. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for an empathetic, fast learner who is excited to own relationships with our state partners’ data teams and prepare raw data for analytics and product development. 

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to safely reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. We work side-by-side with leaders of the criminal justice system, people in prison and on supervision, and ecosystem partners to build a better path forward.

People who succeed at Recidiviz lead with kindness and humility, assume good intent, learn from failure, and fix problems when they see them. They build deep relationships with and genuine empathy for the people we work with and the people our mission serves.

About the role

As an Implementation Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering and partner success. You are part of the technical bridge between Recidiviz's core engineering platform and our state partners - writing the code that gets messy, real-world criminal justice data flowing reliably into our systems, while working closely with state agencies, SEMs, and product teams to define what gets built and why.

This role blends hands-on ingest engineering (building and maintaining data pipelines for state partners) with a meaningful customer-facing dimension: scoping technical approaches with state IT staff, surfacing insights that shape product direction, and building the kind of trust that turns a state DOC into a long-term Recidiviz champion. You should be comfortable moving fluidly between deep technical work and clear stakeholder communication.

Travel Requirement: Occasional travel (estimated 10%) to visit state partner sites for onboarding, relationship-building, and technical scoping. Travel is typically planned in advance and clustered around key milestones (e.g., new state launch, initiative kick-off).

Core responsibilities

• Build and maintain state data ingest pipelines: write Python and SQL to ingest, normalize, and validate raw criminal justice data from state partners into Recidiviz's platform, handling messy schemas, legacy formats, and evolving data feeds.
• Own your state portfolio end-to-end: serve as the primary technical owner for 1–2 state partners, managing ingest quality, resolving data issues, and prioritizing technical work in collaboration with your State Engagement Managers, Product Managers, Data Analysts, and Software Engineers. 
• Scope and deploy solutions in partnership with states: collaborate with state IT staff and agency leadership to understand data systems and constraints, define integration approaches, and translate partner needs into clear technical plans.
• Drive initiatives from backlog to production: independently pick up and complete scoped tickets - from code remappings and raw data documentation to net-new ingest for newly signed states - with appropriate guidance from your technical lead.
• Act as a feedback loop to product and engineering: bring on-the-ground context from partner deployments back to our core teams, helping to make the platform more robust, configurable, and scalable.
• Support onboarding of new states: as new partners sign, contribute to ingest scoping and early pipeline work, helping Recidiviz move quickly from signed contract to live data.

Minimum qualifications

• High empathy and kindness - genuine care for the mission and the people we serve
• 2+ years of experience building, maintaining, or debugging data pipelines in a production environment
• Strong proficiency in SQL and relational databases, with an appetite for wrangling large-scale, messy data
• Solid Python skills - comfortable writing clean, testable scripts and pipeline code
• Experience working cross-functionally or in a customer-facing capacity, with the ability to communicate technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort with ambiguity: you can explore an undocumented legacy system, form a hypothesis, and write code to test it
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with government data systems, legacy enterprise data, or regulated data environments (e.g., CJIS, HIPAA)
• Familiarity with ETL frameworks, data validation patterns, or cloud data infrastructure (GCP preferred)
• Experience scoping technical projects or translating business/policy requirements into engineering work
• Experience with technical integrations: building or consuming REST APIs (OAuth, API keys, pagination, error handling), as well as product integration techniques such as deep linking, and  iframe embedding - experience deploying web-based tools into state or government environments is a plus.
• Comfort with light full-stack work (React/TypeScript) for configuration or tooling tasks
• Familiarity with AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) - we use these extensively
• Proximity to one of our state partner capitals is a meaningful plus

Compensation

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 compensation for this role is: $97,000

What we offer

• 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, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based 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
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

More about Recidiviz

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we’ve built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator’s 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 19 state partners - big and small, red and blue - and touches over 45% of the country’s incarcerated population. We have helped to get hundreds of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably. In addition to partnering with state Departments of Corrections, Recidiviz collaborates with and learns from partners – from organizations like the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) to community based organizations and justice-impacted individuals, whose perspectives guide our work.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2025 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk. And if you’re really keen to see our work, you can dive into our Github :).

An Important Note

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity, and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume - you might be great for this role or another role at another time!

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation: $135,000

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 3+ years

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Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Product Manager to join our team! We’re a small, fast-moving nonprofit that builds tools that impact criminal justice decision making and outcomes. That’s where you come in. We’re looking for a creative, high-agency product leader who can help shape our roadmap, rally cross-functional teams, and bring impactful ideas to life with scrappy execution and strategic insight.

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making. 

Using software tools 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, people in prison and on supervision, 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. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds. 

About the role

Product Managers at Recidiviz own big, complex, mission-critical problem spaces and turn them into high-impact, highly-loved software. You’ll work with engineers, designers, and justice system leaders to identify opportunities, ship products, and iterate fast. Travel is part of the role and planned collaboratively — but the role is remote-flexible with offices in NYC and Oakland for those who prefer hybrid.

Please note: We expect this role will require 10-25% of time spent traveling domestically across the US, about 1-3 trips per quarter. We expect these trips to include visits to prisons and parole offices.

Core responsibilities

• Lead strategy and execution for one or more of our state partner portfolios — from vision to wireframe to deployment and iteration
• Translate ambiguous real-world needs into smart, user-centric product decisions in collaboration with state partners, engineers, and designers
• Drive product discovery with grit and creativity — conducting interviews, mapping workflows, and testing hypotheses in scrappy ways
• Define metrics, track outcomes, and communicate impact across internal and external audiences
• Foster a strong product culture grounded in clarity, curiosity, and urgency
• Roll up your sleeves to help with whatever it takes — we’re a small team, and we all pitch in

Wild success

In your first year at Recidiviz, you might:

• Launch a new tool that helps thousands of people safely exit the correctional system — and scale that tool to be used in multiple states within months.
• Own a portfolio of tools that enable decision makers in corrections to improve reentry outcomes of justice-impacted individuals.
• Collaboratively define a product vision and strategy that reimagines the criminal justice system into an engine for economic mobility.

Minimum qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in product management building user-facing software
• Strong product sense and strategic intuition — you can see the big picture and sweat the details
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity and independently making calls with imperfect data
• Proven ability to collaborate with complex stakeholder relationships with empathy, diplomacy, and clarity
• Love being scrappy - you spot opportunities others miss and aren’t afraid to roll up your sleeves to chase them. You treat constraints as catalysts, not roadblocks, and bring ingenuity to both strategy and execution.
• Technical fluency — you’re comfortable working closely with engineers and understanding architectural tradeoffs
• Passion for our mission to make the criminal justice system more humane, equitable, and effective
• Willing to travel: We expect this role will require 10-25% of time spent traveling domestically across the US, about 1-3 trips per quarter. These trips include visits to prisons and parole offices.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience shipping products in government, health, criminal justice, or similarly complex domains
• Background in startups, civic tech, or other resource-constrained, impact-driven environments
• Strong storytelling skills for motivating teams, aligning stakeholders, and driving change
• Corrections industry working experience, or lived experience navigating the corrections system

Compensation

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 compensation for this role is $135,000.

What we offer

• 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, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based 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
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

More about Recidiviz

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we’ve built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator’s 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 18 state partners – big and small, red and blue – and covers more than 40% of the US incarcerated population. We have helped to get tens of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably, and saved states nearly $1 billion. In the next five years, Recidiviz plans to partner with 40 states and help 250,000 people who are stuck in the system to get out and stay out. In addition to partnering with state Departments of Corrections, Recidiviz collaborates with and learns from partners – from organizations like the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) to community based organizations and justice-impacted individuals, whose perspectives guide our work.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2024 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk. And if you’re really keen to see our work, you can dive into our Github :).

An important note

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look – you might be great for another role or another time!

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland, CA 

Role Type: Full-time 

Compensation: $201,250 

Reports to: Chief Impact Officer 

Visa sponsorship: Not available 

Hires remotely in: United States 

Experience: 10+ years

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Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Director of Product to join our team! We're a small, fast-moving group building technology that helps government leaders safely reduce incarceration and improve outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. That's where you come in. We're looking for a product leader who is equally energized by people and strategy — someone who can set the direction, build the systems, and develop a high-performing team of product managers to do the most important work of their careers.

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making.

Using software tools and thoughtful product design, we've been able to safely reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side-by-side with leaders of the criminal justice system, people in prison and on supervision, 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. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds.

About the role

This role sits at the center of Recidiviz's ability to scale. As a Director of Product, you'll lead and develop a team of experienced product managers — people with years of domain expertise, strong opinions, and a deep commitment to the mission. Your job is to make each of them sharper, more supported, and more impactful: setting the strategic context that guides their work, building the people systems that help them grow, and creating the conditions for them to do the best work of their careers. You'll report to the Chief Impact Officer and serve as a key partner on product direction, team health, and the org design decisions that will shape Recidiviz as it grows toward national scale. Some travel to our state partners, internal team gatherings, and offsites is expected.

Core responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and build a high-performing PM team. Manage and mentor experienced PMs and emerging leaders — including senior ICs who own product areas deeply and those growing toward management. Own the full hiring engine from sourcing to close: pipeline development, interview design, and offer process. You run a high-performing team, and you measure your success by the growth and impact of the people around you.
• Build the systems that give the team clarity and stability. Partner with People Ops to own and evolve the career ladder, performance frameworks, and onboarding that make this team feel like a place worth building a career. You know what great looks like at every level and you make that visible.
• Build the cross-functional trust that makes great product work possible. Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, and policy and coach the PMs to do the same. Collaborate with executive leadership and state government stakeholders, and help the team stay close to frontline staff and the people most affected by the criminal justice system.
• Set the strategic context that guides the team's work. Define a clear direction for the PM team — helping each PM understand where their area fits in the bigger picture, what to prioritize, and why it matters. Help PMs define strategies for their areas, translate ambiguity into clear priorities, and make more confident product calls. You are the reason the team always knows what they're working toward and the org has clarity on our product strategy.
• Move the team toward the future of product. AI is reshaping what it means to be a PM — and your job is to help the team stay ahead of that shift. Champion and model AI-assisted workflows across discovery, scoping, and prototyping. Set standards for using these tools with judgment, not just speed. Develop the adaptability and craft that will make your PMs exceptional long after their time at Recidiviz.

Wild success

Here are a few things you might accomplish in your first year that would demonstrate wild success in this role. Some of these will be the direct result of your work. Others will be because of the conditions you've set for a great team to do great things — which is just as important.

• The topline is moving: Recidiviz's overall product portfolio has deepening impact — better outcomes, higher tool usage, more support from client executives, improved CSAT, steady launch momentum. You didn't build all of it, but the team that did was sharper, more supported, and more strategically grounded because of you.
• Multiple PMs have grown into a meaningfully new scope — a first-time manager, a senior IC owning a harder problem, someone who was stuck and is now thriving. The team can see a credible path forward because they've watched someone walk it.
• XFN partners, like engineering, design, marketing, are proactively pulling PMs into hard decisions earlier, not because they're required to, but because the PM team has become the kind of thought partner people actually want in the room.
• Hiring lag is eliminated. You've built a pipeline that moves fast without sacrificing quality, and Recidiviz is no longer a bottleneck on its own growth.
• Onboarding time-to-productivity is fast. New PMs are contributing meaningfully within their first month because the infrastructure matches the quality of the team they're joining.
• Everyone at Recidiviz — not just the PM team — can articulate where the product is going and why. Strategic clarity has become a property of the org, not just a document.

Minimum qualifications

• Deep care for the growth and wellbeing of the people you manage — you measure your success by theirs
• 10+ years in product management, with at least 5 years managing a team; you've led both senior ICs and emerging leaders and know how to get the best from each
• Exceptional communication and relationship skills — you earn trust quickly, especially with people who have strong opinions and high standards
• Experience coaching PMs toward management readiness — you've developed future managers, not just individual contributors
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to create clarity and momentum where little exists
• Proven ability to build people systems from scratch — career ladders, performance frameworks, onboarding programs — in a fast-moving environment
• Experience running recruiting at scale: pipeline building, interview design, and closing candidates in a competitive market
• Strong strategic instincts: you can zoom out to see the system, identify what's misaligned, and help teams make better decisions with less friction
• A builder's mindset paired with strategic rigor — you see gaps, you close them, and you leave things better than you found them
• Ability and willingness to travel, about one trip per quarter

Preferred qualifications

• Experience navigating complex, multi-stakeholder environments where end users, administrative buyers, and institutional partners each have distinct needs — and where building trust with all of them is part of the job.
• Experience working in or closely with mission-driven, nonprofit, or public sector organizations
• Personal or professional experience working with the criminal justice system
• Experience in a high-growth startup where the playbook was still being written
• Exposure to AI-assisted product development and the unique team dynamics it creates
• A track record of elevating strong ICs into more strategic, senior thinkers — not just promoting people, but genuinely shaping their craft

Compensation

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 compensation for this role is: $201,250.

What we offer

• 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, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based 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
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

More about Recidiviz

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we've built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator's 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 19 state partners — big and small, red and blue — and touches over 45% of the country's incarcerated population. We have helped to get hundreds of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2025 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk.

An important note

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look — you might be great for another role or another time!

Location: Remote, New York City, or Oakland

Role Type: Full-time

Compensation: For employees based in the Oakland, CA, and New York City, NY, metropolitan areas, the salary for this role is $111,500. For employees based elsewhere in the United States, the salary for this role is $102,000.

Visa sponsorship: Not available

Hires remotely in: United States

Experience: 7+ Years

Recidiviz is thrilled to be hiring a Content & Communications Lead to join our marketing team! We’re a small, fast-moving group that creates moments and messages that drive our mission forward.

That’s where you come in. We’re looking for a master storyteller with a strategist’s eye for reputation. You will own our narrative across both owned and earned channels, building the content engine that shapes how the world perceives Recidiviz and our work.

About us

Recidiviz is creating safer, healthier communities by improving outcomes for people in the criminal justice system. We build technology to reduce the number of people in prison and to help criminal justice leaders embrace data-driven decision-making.

Using software tools 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, people in prison and on supervision, 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. They are excited to work arm in arm with government leadership and staff to improve outcomes. They are great listeners. They build deep relationships with and empathy for the people we work with and the people who our mission serves, even when those two groups feel at odds. 

About the role

As the Content & Communications Lead, your work will bridge the gap between content marketing and strategic communications, ensuring that every blog post, case study, and press pitch positions Recidiviz to drive greater impact with our government partners. 

You will not just be writing; you will be hunting for impact. You will interview pilot users to uncover success stories and translate them into assets that inspire adoption in other states. You will partner with our data analysts to understand and communicate industry-leading metrics and insights. Simultaneously, you will manage a highly targeted PR and speaking engagement strategy, securing high-value industry placements that validate our work while limiting our exposure to the risks of a highly polarized media environment. 

You will report to the CMO and work closely with the State Engagement and Business Development teams to ensure they have the narrative tools to build deep high trust relationships.

This role requires occasional domestic travel (2-3x year) to collaborate with teammates in person, attend our annual Partner Summit, and support on-site content production with state partners. 

Core responsibilities

• The Perception Drumbeat: Own the editorial calendar and execute a content strategy designed to shift specific brand perceptions about Recidiviz and the challenges we are solving.
  
  
• Storytelling Engine: Build the internal infrastructure to regularly surface impact stories—from data wins to user quotes—and package them into case studies, blog posts, and whitepapers.
  
  
• Targeted Earned Media: Identify and evaluate press and award opportunities that reach specific audiences rather than chasing vanity metrics in broad outlets. You will manage our reputation by balancing visibility with thoughtful context.
  
  
• Roadmap Enablement: Partner with Product Marketing to build a library of state case studies that help our partnership teams show new agencies what is possible, and existing partners the case for more ambitious impact.
  
  
• Ghostwriting & Thought Leadership: Capture the voice of our executive team to ghostwrite Op-Eds, LinkedIn articles, and speeches that position Recidiviz as a leading govtech innovator.
  
  

Wild success

Here are a few things you might accomplish in your first year at Recidiviz that would demonstrate wild success in this role:

• Develop a New Thought Leadership Angle: Identify and build out a presentation topic for our annual Partner Summit, including pre and post-summit content.
  
  
• Unlock Support for our Partners: Corrections leaders often only make the news for crises. Collaborate with our state partners to drive awareness of alternative narratives about their work, unlocking support for ambitious and impactful reforms. 

Minimum qualifications

• Storytelling Expertise: 7+ years of experience in content marketing, communications, or journalism, with a portfolio of complex topics translated into compelling narratives.
  
  
• Navigating Complex Narratives: You have a finely tuned sense of "safe" vs. "risky" media. You understand how to steer in polarized environments and can judge which stories will build trust and support the goals of government leaders.
  
  
• Strategic Versatility: You are comfortable toggling between "Marketing Mode" (AEO, case studies) and "Comms Mode" (reputation, media relations).
  
  
• Project Management: Ability to manage an editorial calendar independently, coordinating with internal subject matter experts (SEMs) to extract insights without burdening them.

Preferred qualifications

• Data/Technology Experience: Experience humanizing deeply technical or data-driven content for diverse audiences.
• Journalism Experience: A proven ability to interview subjects, find the "hook," and meet strict deadlines.
• Multimedia Experience: Producing content across video, podcasts, events, long and short-form writing, and interactive formats. 

Compensation

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.

For employees based in the Oakland, CA, and New York City, NY, metropolitan areas, the salary for this role is $111,500. For employees based elsewhere in the United States, the salary for this role is $102,000.

What we offer

• 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, 3 days of paid volunteering time, and 13 paid holidays per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with 5% company match and no vesting period
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• Complimentary One Medical membership (availability based 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
• Well-located offices in Oakland and Manhattan, with the flexibility to work remotely or go into either office as you choose
• An annual company offsite and other ad-hoc gatherings
• All the exhilarating challenges and stretch opportunities of a tech startup, combined with the mission-driven heart of a nonprofit

More about Recidiviz

Recidiviz was an all-volunteer effort until early 2019, when Clementine, Andrew, and Joshua founded the organization. Since then, we’ve built an A-team of software engineers, designers, product managers and domain experts, from companies like Google, Apple, Dropbox, Opower, and Sidewalk Labs. Recidiviz was part of Y-Combinator’s 2019 class and has received support from some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations, including Ford Foundation, Mackenzie Scott, Schmidt Futures, Arnold Ventures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today, Recidiviz works with (and earns revenue from) over 19 state partners - big and small, red and blue - and touches over 45% of the country’s incarcerated population. We have helped to get hundreds of thousands of people out of the criminal justice system, safely and equitably. In addition to partnering with state Departments of Corrections, Recidiviz collaborates with and learns from partners – from organizations like the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA) to community based organizations and justice-impacted individuals, whose perspectives guide our work.

To learn more about how we do what we do, check out our 2024 Year in Review, read some press coverage, or watch our TED Talk. And if you’re really keen to see our work, you can dive into our Github :).

An important note

Lasting change is always built on diversity. Recidiviz recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, gender identity and all protected status as required by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a special need that requires accommodation, please let us know in your application. Even if you don't think you meet all the criteria above, drop your resume, and we'll take a look – you might be great for another role or another time!