Community Engagement Lead, East

The role

The Community Engagement Lead will build and lead the function responsible for engaging served communities and driving success in the civic arena. This role involves building strategies, relationships, and playbooks to help communities understand Peregrine's work and build public support for deployments.

What you will do

• Lead community engagement strategies by mapping civic landscapes and identifying stakeholders.
• Build Peregrine's community engagement playbook.
• Translate technology into community value by partnering with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Implementation teams.
• Shape the public narrative by monitoring discourse, media, and stakeholder sentiment.
• Build relationships across the civic ecosystem including community organizations and elected officials.
• Support government partners through public hearings, council votes, and community meetings.
• Partner cross-functionally to incorporate community perspectives into technology deployment.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience navigating local or state political environments, public affairs, government relations, campaigns, or community engagement.
• Deep understanding of how civic decisions are made and how initiatives move through city halls, public hearings, and local government processes.
• Proven ability to build coalitions, navigate high-stakes public conversations, and move complex initiatives toward successful outcomes.
• Strong relationships and working familiarity with community organizations, elected officials, government leaders, or other civic stakeholders.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• High-agency, entrepreneurial operator comfortable building from scratch.
• Strong judgment and credibility in politically sensitive or high-visibility environments.
• Located in NY and willing to work in the office 4 days/week

Nice to have

• Experience working with public safety, government technology, or other complex civic issues

About the company

Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society's challenges with an AI-enabled platform. The company supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries.