Jobs at GiveDirectly

Leads marketing strategy, operations, and special projects as the VP of Marketing’s strategic implementation partner. Owns planning, OKRs, performance analysis, budgets, headcount planning, vendor management, operating rhythms, and cross-functional initiatives. Supports marketing leadership with strategic decisions, stakeholder alignment, executive communications, and execution in an ambiguous, fast-growing environment. The role also develops scalable processes, tests new initiatives, documents playbooks, and helps transition the organization to AI-enabled ways of working.

Own technical delivery for program launches, including requirements, system configuration, implementation, testing, troubleshooting, data analysis, training, and retrospectives. Collaborate across Operations, Product, Research, Engineering, and Data teams to improve systems, ensure privacy and financial controls, and support technology-enabled cash delivery programs.

Own GiveDirectly’s paid media strategy across Meta, Google, YouTube, TikTok, programmatic, and emerging channels. Manage acquisition and brand campaigns, creative direction, budgets, testing, attribution, dashboards, forecasting, and performance reporting. Optimize one-time and recurring donor growth while partnering with Brand and Marketing teams. The role requires hands-on campaign execution, strong data-driven decision-making, and occasional travel to operational countries.

Lead a lean internal consulting function evaluating and advancing external partnerships that expand cash-transfer delivery capacity. Build and prioritize strategic options, conduct diligence, develop executive recommendations, manage RFPs, negotiate with institutional counterparties, and take selected opportunities through pilot implementation. The role requires autonomous strategic problem-solving, quantitative analysis, negotiation, concise executive communication, and coordination across internal teams and external partners.

Build and scale reliable software systems supporting donor platforms, cash payments, and rapid-response programs. Own features end to end from architecture through deployment and monitoring, improve CI/CD and testing, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with product, operations, and data teams. The role also contributes to technical roadmaps and sustainable engineering practices in a mission-driven, fully remote organization.

Build and maintain fundraising technology that supports donors, fundraisers, donation processing, and reporting. Responsibilities include website development, backend integrations, legacy-system maintenance, data processing, testing, launches, bug fixes, incident ownership, and on-call support during peak donation periods. The role requires autonomous work with Laravel, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Salesforce, WordPress, SQL, and partner CSV files, along with close collaboration with non-engineering fundraising teams.

Serves as primary legal partner to global functions, advising on corporate, commercial, fundraising, nonprofit, employment, privacy, and operational matters. Structures and negotiates partnerships, funding arrangements, technology agreements, and data-sharing agreements. Leads legal strategy for data partnerships, MNO data, remote enablement, and cross-country initiatives. Builds legal templates and playbooks, supports charitable giving and public affairs compliance, coordinates external counsel, and develops practical approaches to novel regulatory issues.

Own global People Operations across payroll, employee lifecycle, HRIS data, ticketing, compensation, benefits, mobility, and reporting. Lead a team of three, establish operating controls and service standards, manage multi-country payroll providers, maintain compliance, improve workflows, and deliver accurate people data and total rewards operations across more than 20 countries.

Own GiveDirectly’s fundraising revenue operations, including CRM and pipeline systems, KPI frameworks, forecasting, reporting, operating cadences, revenue reconciliation, and capacity planning. Partner with Finance, Compliance, Grants, People, and Fundraising teams to scale systems and donor operations. Serve as a strategic chief-of-staff partner to the VP of Partnerships, lead organizational change and executive communications, and potentially build and manage a team of 3–5.