Texas Growth & Engagement Lead

Peregrine Technologies

12d•$150,000 - $180,000

About The Position

Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, Peregrine helps the world’s most complex organizations solve their hardest problems with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Our AI-enabled platform turns siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence—instantly surfacing mission-critical information to empower better, faster decisions that improve outcomes at every touchpoint. Today, Peregrine supports hundreds of customers across 23 states and two countries, serving more than 90 million people—and we’re amplifying our impact as we expand into more industries. We’re a team of entrepreneurs—undaunted by the hard problems and united by a passion to make a difference where it matters most. We collaborate relentlessly, move with urgency, and act with purpose. If you’re driven by mission and energized by the opportunity to build something new, join us in defining Peregrine’s future. The Role: Peregrine is seeking a Texas Growth & Engagement Lead to accelerate our expansion across the state by building high-leverage relationships with state leaders and turning those relationships into real market outcomes. This is not a traditional policy role. It’s a growth role for someone who understands how Texas government works—and knows how to convert state priorities, funding structures, contracting pathways, and policy windows into opportunities. Your North Star: Unlock statewide growth by building durable partnerships with Texas leaders and charting the funding, contracting, and policy pathways that enable Peregrine’s products to scale across the state.

Requirements

Intimate understanding of the issues and challenges facing public safety community specifically as well as state and local government broadly paired with a vision and passion solving them at scale.
7+ years in government partnerships, public-sector business development, or state-level strategy within Texas.
Proven ability to turn government priorities, funding flows, or legislative/policy windows into commercial opportunities.
Strong relationships or working familiarity with Texas state agencies and their decision-making processes.
Executive level verbal and written communication, relationship-building, and strategic planning skills.
Entrepreneurial mindset; thrives in a fast-paced, high-expectation, mission-driven environment.
Skilled translator of complex and technical concepts into digestible stories and information for lawmakers

Responsibilities

Drive exponential statewide growth by identifying and shaping opportunities to solve hard problems with large Texas agencies (e.g., DPS, TDEM, TDCJ, DIR, major counties/cities) and uncovering ways to fund the deployment of Peregrine across many local agencies.
Serve as the face of Peregrine to state and local officials, influencers, as well as 3rd party advisors and lobbyists and any other external parties required to succeed
Build trusted relationships with senior state and local officials—and convert them into concrete opportunities and deployments.
Map Texas’s strategic priorities (e.g., public safety, emergency management, data modernization, AI governance) to Peregrine’s products to create actionable go-to-market pathways.
Turn policy developments, funding opportunities, and procurement routes into revenue-driving initiatives.
Work cross-functionally with Growth, Customer, Marketing, Communications and Product teams and align resources to accelerate growth and shorten the path from introduction to deployment.
Develop compelling materials—briefings, GTM plans, proposals—that capture wins, communicate value and enable political leaders and agency executives understand the operational impact of Peregrine’s technology.
Lead high-leverage engagements (roundtables, executive briefings, workshops) that fuel adoption.
Manage external partners, advisors, lobbyists, and consultants who can help accelerate growth across Texas.