Centre for Effective Altruism

We’re hiring a Head of Digital Product to guide the team owning and delivering the EA Forum, Intro Program, Career Bootcamp, EA Newsletter, and Opportunities Board. This is a leadership position reporting to Jessica McCurdy, Director of Community Growth, and collaborating closely with our Director of Strategy, our Head of Marketing and Communications, and other CEA leadership to ensure digital products drive meaningful community growth. About CEA The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems. We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks. Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good – and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people who are motivated by EA principles to take significant action to address pressing problems, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work. We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Our headcount grew from 42 to 66 core staff. Program participation (e.g., events, courses, groups) grew by 20-25% year over year. We merged with EA Funds and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising: our first Fund staffed with full-time employees (EA Animal Welfare Fund) raised almost as much as the previous three years combined. In 2026, we’re maintaining ambitious momentum while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards. About the Digital Product Team Digital products – currently including the EA Forum, Intro Program, Career Bootcamp, EA Newsletter, and Opportunities Board – represent one of CEA's highest-leverage opportunities to accelerate EA community growth. In 2025, our digital products helped thousands of people move closer to high-impact careers and donations, with over 60,000 subscribers to the EA Newsletter, ~700,000 annual visitors to the EA Forum, and thousands more participating in online courses and events. These products directly feed into the thousands of people working full-time on high-impact roles. Digital offerings can scale dramatically with relatively few bottlenecks, making them uniquely essential to achieving our ambitious growth goals for the EA community. CEA is exploring what it would take to 2-10x the size of the EA community over the next several years, and our best bet is that this will require us to significantly increase the number of people accessing our digital products while dramatically improving conversion rates through the engagement funnel. We need to do all of this while maintaining quality. The team currently working on these products is a small group of experienced professionals who are well organized, efficient, and excellent at shipping products quickly. But the team and the products they create have yet to operate with the unified strategy they need to reach their growth potential. We think with strong strategic leadership, the team can achieve much, much more. In 2026 we will be building and leading a new Digital Products team to make these offerings great and scale their impact. About the role We're hiring a Head of Digital Product to build and lead the team that will create this scalable digital ecosystem. This is one of the most crucial leadership hires for EA growth in the coming years. You'll own the digital product strategy, defining how products work together, setting the vision for the portfolio, and making the hard calls about what to scale and what to stop as we experiment. You'll take products with strong potential and transform them into exceptional, sought-after experiences by driving success metrics, building systems for quality at scale, and driving continuous improvement through data and user feedback. And you'll decide when to add new products to the suite, what they should be, and who should build them. You'll start by leading our current Online Team, which includes the EA Forum, Opportunities Board, and the EA Newsletter, plus engineering and design capacity. As we finalize the structure of our Digital Products function, you'll likely absorb our Courses team and hire additional Product Managers – but we want your input on the right org design. We're explicitly hiring someone to help us figure out what this team should look like, not someone who needs it pre-defined. You'll coach people into strong product roles and build a high-performing product culture. You'll report to the Director of Community Growth and partner closely with our Director of Strategy, our Head of Marketing and Communications, and other CEA leadership to ensure digital products drive meaningful community growth. Overall, you will be a co-leader in the overall growth of the EA ecosystem. Key responsibilities Product strategy and portfolio management - Doing what it takes to scale the portfolio’s impact month over month and year on year. - Setting a vision for how our digital products work together to create coherent user journeys and pathways into EA and towards positive impact - Figuring out where to invest, iterate, or consolidate across our portfolio of digital products based on impact - Creating feedback loops by gathering user feedback and using and data to drive decisions for user satisfaction and growth - Managing the digital products budget and making resource allocation decisions across the portfolio - Being in the weeds enough in our digital products to guide and coach product managers - Depending on the candidate, the role may involve more hands-on product work, directly managing 1-2 products Team management - Hiring, managing, developing, and coaching a team including Product Leads, a Senior Product Designer, a Senior Software Engineer and other Product Leads as they are brought onto the team - Building team product culture and infrastructure for excellence at scale Stakeholder management - Coordinating with internal teams (Marketing, Groups, Strategy) and external EA stakeholders - Navigating stakeholder relationships on portfolio decisions - Representing digital product strategy to leadership and building organizational alignment What we’re looking for Ultimately, we're looking for someone who can make great decisions, lead decisively, create products users love, and drive growth of the EA community. You might be a great fit for this role if you have: - Strong product intuition: You know what great looks like and can figure out when product-market fit weakens - Strategic thinking: You are experienced with setting strategic direction across multiple products and making tough prioritization calls based on impact - Management experience: You are skilled at hiring and developing staff and building product management functions. You are able to build trust and alignment with technical, high-autonomy teams - Impact focus: You are laser-focused on achieving exceptional levels of positive social impact through your work and the product, and have a strong understanding and appreciation for effective altruism principles. - Comfort with ambiguity and systematization: You are comfortable formalizing informal functions and operating in ambiguous environments - Stakeholder management skills: You are excellent at stakeholder management and navigating complex organizational dynamics Particularly strong candidates may also have: - Experience scaling digital products with a focus on quality and fast growth - Background with educational programs, community-building products, or content platforms Other information - This is a full-time, remote position. We prefer applicants who are able to work in time zones between US Pacific Time and CET. - We have an office in Oxford, UK, that you would have access to. - Start date: May 2026 or sooner - Reports to: Jessica McCurdy, Director of Community Growth - Compensation - US: total compensation package of $157,435, comprising a base salary of $143,123, and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution. - UK: total compensation package of £94,711, comprising a base salary of £86,101, and a 10% pension contribution. - Other locations: For candidates outside the US and UK, we base compensation on our UK salary structure and adjust for the cost of employment and fixed local benefit costs to create an equivalent package - Benefits in the US/UK include private insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, 25 days of paid vacation, and more. - This role will involve travel. There are likely 4 trips annually to attend team retreats and other events, including several international trips. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of colour who are excited about contributing to our mission. The Centre for Effective Altruism is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@centreforeffectivealtruism.org. We are committed to protecting your data. See our privacy policy for more information. Evaluation plan We expect the application process to include the following steps, subject to changes: - Application - Test task 1 - Short interview - Test task 2 - Final interviews (3-4, non-sequential) - Reference checks - 1-2 day work trial

We’re hiring a Head for the EA Infrastructure Fund (EAIF). This is an opportunity to shape millions of dollars in grantmaking toward the organizations, research, and community-building efforts that strengthen effective altruism's foundations, while also overseeing an updated version of CEA's Community Building Grants (CBG) program. Few roles offer this much leverage over the trajectory of EA. Your work and decisions will directly shape what exists in the ecosystem and what doesn't, from the organizations that get built to the research that gets funded. You'll have significant autonomy to define the fund's strategic direction, grow its donor base, and build EAIF into an even more compelling vehicle for impact. This is a senior position on our EA Funds team, reporting to the Director of EA Funds. About CEA The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems. We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks. Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good – and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people who are motivated by EA principles to take significant action to address pressing problems, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work. We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Our headcount grew from 42 to 66 core staff. Program participation (e.g., events, courses, groups) grew by 20-25% year over year. We merged with EA Funds and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising: our first Fund staffed with full-time employees (EA Animal Welfare Fund) raised almost as much as the previous three years combined. In 2026, we’re maintaining ambitious momentum while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards. About EA Funds and EAIF EAIF is part of Effective Altruism Funds (EA Funds), which is the grantmaking arm of CEA. EA Funds directs financial resources to particularly cost-effective and impactful projects across four funds: the EA Infrastructure Fund, the Long-Term Future Fund, the Animal Welfare Fund, and the Global Health and Development Fund. It's a particularly exciting time to join EA Funds. The team's recent integration with CEA allows it to benefit from shared infrastructure and opens up significant opportunities for programmatic synergies. We've also seen the Animal Welfare Fund scale from ~$3M to $10M in a single year under full-time leadership, with tens of millions more expected, and we believe significant growth is also possible for EAIF with the right person at the helm. The EA Infrastructure Fund occupies an important position in the EA funding landscape. It is one of the very few funders dedicated to EA "meta" efforts: the work that multiplies the impact of direct work on the world's most pressing problems. Its scope spans the organizations, research, and initiatives that support the EA ecosystem as a whole: funding EA groups around the world, supporting efforts to communicate EA ideas to new audiences, backing research on cause prioritization, seeding effective giving platforms that move donations to high-impact charities, and more. While EAIF is not quite alone in supporting that ecosystem, the landscape for meta-EA funding remains far thinner than for cause-specific work — and there are important areas, such as communication about EA principles, cause prioritization research, or smaller or early-stage projects, that would likely not get supported without EAIF. You will shape and lead the strategy of this fund, and in doing so, play a significant role in whether the EA ecosystem lives up to its potential. About the role You will be responsible for high-quality grantmaking, strategic leadership of the fund, and fundraising. You will make grants yourself – including actively sourcing high-impact opportunities – while working to grow the fund's capacity over time. With EAIF's integration into CEA and this new leadership hire, we're looking to bring fresh strategic energy to the fund. As the fund’s leader, you'll have significant latitude to define what EAIF should focus on and how it can add the most value. The right candidate will be guided by EA principles, think rigorously about where EAIF's marginal dollar does the most good, and be willing to update that thinking over time. We are genuinely open to your perspective on questions like: - How should EAIF position itself relative to other funders supporting the EA ecosystem? - What types of grants and grantees should EAIF prioritize to best support the community's potential to do good? - How do we make EAIF a compelling product for donors, whether they're already excited about supporting EA infrastructure or just starting to see its value? Community Building Grants In addition to leading EAIF, you will also lead an updated version of CEA's Community Building Grants (CBG) program, primarily focused on its grantmaking role. This program will continue to provide funding to professionalized local and national EA communities around the world. It is a distinct program with its own funding sources and grantmaking process, but its mission is closely aligned with EAIF's scope. We see the combination of these responsibilities as a natural fit and an opportunity to take a more integrated view of how funding supports the EA community ecosystem. Contributing to EA Funds' broader strategy As a senior member of the EA Funds team, you'll also contribute to the overall strategic direction of EA Funds more broadly — sharing insights from EAIF's work, collaborating with other fund leads, and helping strengthen the platform as a whole. These goals will be supported by other teams at CEA. CEA's Marketing and Communications team will partner with EA Funds to highlight the work of grantees, and we plan to hire fundraising staff to facilitate donations to EA Funds. Key responsibilities Grantmaking - Investigate and evaluate grant opportunities rigorously, assessing theories of change, team strength, expected impact, and other relevant factors - Actively source high-quality applications and grantmaking opportunities, including, where appropriate, encouraging promising individuals to pursue projects EAIF could fund - Communicate your grantmaking reasoning transparently through grant reports, feedback to applicants, and public writing - Contribute to improvements in the grantmaking processes of EA Funds Strategic leadership - Develop a compelling strategy for EAIF's focus areas, grant types, and role in the funding ecosystem - Oversee an updated version of CEA’s Community Building Grants program, ensuring it effectively funds strong EA community builders worldwide - Represent EAIF and the Community Building Grants program (and occasionally EA Funds as a whole) within the EA community and to external stakeholders - Contribute to EA Funds' broader strategic direction as a senior team member Fundraising - Grow EAIF's donor base in collaboration with other CEA teams (e.g. EA Funds leadership, incoming fundraising staff, and the Marketing and Communications team) - Build and cultivate relationships with potential donors - Communicate EAIF's impact and strategy in ways that are honest and compelling Ecosystem development - Develop strategic partnerships with other aligned funders and organizations - Collaborate with grantees and groups of grantees to help them succeed and maximize their impact - Contribute to the broader EA community's thinking on funding priorities and strategic questions Team building - Hire and manage additional staff to support grantmaking efforts as the fund grows What we're looking for At a minimum, we want a candidate who has: - Genuine commitment to EA principles: commitment to careful reasoning about impact, willingness to change your mind based on strong reasoning and evidence, and concern for doing the most good. We're looking for someone who leads with principles rather than fixed conclusions about which interventions or focus areas matter most. - Familiarity with the EA community: understanding of its key organizations, debates, and dynamics, and well-reasoned views on how to best support it. - An entrepreneurial mindset: the drive to shape a fund's strategic direction, build something ambitious, and adapt as the landscape evolves. - Strong social and communication skills: the ability to professionally represent EAIF, EA Funds, and CEA, build networks, and navigate a wide range of conversations with grantees, donors, and community members. In addition, it will be valuable if you have: - Strong strategic thinking and planning abilities - Strong written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex reasoning clearly and build trust with diverse stakeholders - Strong people and project management skills - Experience in grantmaking, philanthropic leadership, or related fields - A track record of building and scaling products or programs - Experience managing multi-million dollar budgets - A track record of leading fundraising efforts We recognize we may be unlikely to find someone who fits all of these criteria, and we encourage you to apply even if you aren't sure you're fully qualified. Other information - This is a full-time, remote position. We prefer applicants who are able to work in time zones between US Pacific Time and CET. - We have an office in Oxford, UK, that you would have access to. - Start date: We'd ideally have you start as soon as possible, but would consider a later start for the right candidate. - Reports to: Loic Watine, Director of EA Funds - Compensation - US: total compensation package of $157,435, comprising a base salary of $143,123 and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution. - UK: total compensation package of £94,711, comprising a base salary of £86,101 and a 10% pension contribution. - Other locations: For candidates outside the US and UK, we base compensation on our UK salary structure and adjust for the cost of employment and fixed local benefit costs to create an equivalent package. - Benefits in the US/UK include private health insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, 25 days of paid vacation, and more. - This role will involve travel. There are likely 4-6 trips annually to attend team retreats and other events, including several international trips. We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of colour who are excited about contributing to our mission. The Centre for Effective Altruism is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@centreforeffectivealtruism.org. CEA participates in E-Verify for US employees. We are committed to protecting your data. See our privacy policy for more information. Evaluation plan We expect the interview process to include the following steps (subject to change): - Application - Test task 1 - Short interview - Test task 2 - Final interviews (3-5, non-sequential) - 1–2 day work trial - Reference checks

This description is a summary of our understanding of the job description. Click on 'Apply' button to find out more. Role Description We're hiring a Development Officer to build and run major donor fundraising for the Animal Welfare Fund (AWF). This role is responsible for developing our fundraising strategy, managing relationships with high-net-worth donors, and running the systems that make those relationships work. This role will start as an individual contributor position on the EA Funds team, reporting to Karolina Sarek, Chair of the Animal Welfare Fund, and collaborating with AWF’s grantmakers, EA Funds Leadership, Marketing and Communications, and the future Partnerships team when it is developed – and will have the opportunity to grow into a management position. Qualifications - Experienced in major gift fundraising or high-net-worth relationship management. - A skilled project manager who can define scope, set timelines, and deliver high-quality work across multiple workstreams simultaneously. - An exceptional writer and communicator, able to produce or review donor-facing content that is precise, credible, and compelling to sophisticated audiences. - Comfortable with CRM systems and data management. - Genuinely excited about the potential for strategic philanthropy to reduce animal suffering at scale. - A clear and rigorous thinker with strong analytical and decision-making skills. - Someone who thrives in a fast-moving environment and adapts quickly when circumstances shift. - Interested in innovative, non-standard fundraising initiatives such as thesis-driven funds. Requirements - Co-develop AWF's major donor fundraising strategy with the Chair. - Build and maintain testing frameworks to evaluate what's working across gift programs. - Own the donor cultivation process, ensuring every donor in our portfolio is actively engaged. - Develop and maintain individualized engagement plans for donors. - Ensure donors have an outstanding experience with AWF at every touchpoint. - Build AWF's donor engagement infrastructure from the ground up, including our CRM (Bloomerang). - Lead on drafting all donor-facing written communications. - Support the development and execution of specific fundraising initiatives. - Translate fundraising strategy into concrete plans, timelines, and workstreams. - Manage multiple fundraising initiatives simultaneously. Benefits - Private health insurance. - Flexible work hours. - $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance. - $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance. - Extended parental leave. - Ergonomic equipment. - 25 days of paid vacation. - Travel opportunities, including 4 trips annually for team retreats and events.