Deployment Strategist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of deployment strategies for initiatives, detailing what needs to be constructed, configured, documented, approved, and scheduled.

• Facilitate the operational rhythm across Account Management, Product, and Engineering teams.

• Identify workstreams that are stalled and work to remove obstacles.

• Outline policies, changes in roles, facility procedures, approval processes, and implementation requirements.

• Develop crosswalks from policy to procedures, readiness checklists for facilities, communications for staff, and explanations for residents.

• Cultivate reliable relationships with classification officers, records and sentence computation personnel, case managers, program coordinators, wardens, and deputy wardens.

• Nurture local advocates to enhance trust among partner agencies.

• Transform deployment insights into reusable playbooks, templates, and operational processes.

• Ensure the successful utilization and operational stability of Recidiviz tools within state correctional facilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven success in gaining acceptance for a policy, process, or system change from individuals outside your direct reporting line within a large operational organization.

• Background in government, corrections, healthcare, logistics, enterprise software implementation, or similar sectors.

• Capability to autonomously create project plans, define milestones, and develop stakeholder maps while driving execution.

• Strong communication abilities and meticulous documentation practices.

• Competence in writing procedures, clarifying policy changes in straightforward language, and conveying product issues to Product Managers.

• Comfort with technology and policy; ability to interpret how statutes translate into sentence computation rules and data models.

• Skill in managing high-pressure interactions with incarcerated individuals and correctional staff with composure and self-control.

• Willingness to travel approximately 30% of the time, including regular trips to prisons and correctional headquarters.

• Visa sponsorship is not provided.

• Experience in implementing an enterprise or government system and navigating a go-live phase (preferred).

• Experience working on a small, agile team and establishing repeatable processes (preferred).

• Understanding of corrections policy, administrative regulations, earned-credit and custody laws, and the implementation of procedures (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance at 90% for you and your dependents.

• Flexible time off policy, which includes 20 days of PTO, 3 days for paid volunteering, and 13 paid holidays annually.

• 401(k) retirement plan with a 5% company match and no vesting period.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Complimentary membership to One Medical (availability based on location).

• Collaboration with Carrot to provide inclusive fertility and family-forming benefits, hormonal health, and gender-affirming care support.

• Monthly ClassPass credit for personal wellness initiatives.

• Access to free mental health support through Talkspace.

• Flexibility to work remotely or from either the Oakland or Manhattan office.

• Annual company offsite and additional ad-hoc gatherings.

• Work in a mission-driven tech startup environment with opportunities for professional growth.