Senior Manager, Philanthropy

GiveDirectly (GD) aims to reshape international giving – and millions of lives – by providing cash grants directly to the world’s poorest. The Brookings Institution estimates that $70B of cash transfers would be required to eliminate the poverty gap; the aid sector currently spends $135B each year, much of it on evidence-free interventions. GiveDirectly wants to change that, establishing cash transfers as a benchmark for foreign aid – as the index fund is a benchmark for the financial industry – and in the process accelerating the end of extreme poverty.

GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011 and delivered cash to more than 2 million people in 15 different countries. We’ve also supported large-scale, experimental research that indicates strong recipient impact of our programs. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GD’s leading role within it) have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.

Our culture is candid, analytical, agile, and non-hierarchical. Our global team of ~150, and country operations teams of ~650, span 21 different countries and 69 languages. From software engineers to seasoned humanitarian workers, management consultants to public servants, researchers to field operations -- it’s an incredible group of people.

Our values are central and deliberately opinionated. We genuinely center the people we serve in our decision-making, and strive to build an ambitious, dynamic and high-performing environment. We strongly encourage you to read through our values carefully, if they reflect how you like to work and energize you, this could be a great fit.

We work hard to create an environment in which all our team members can thrive, succeed, and grow.  We support high ownership, flexibility, take care of each other, have fun, and create professional growth opportunities.

Location: Remote, with a strong preference for San Francisco Bay Area. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S.  at this time.

About this role

GiveDirectly is hiring a Senior Manager to anchor our presence in the San Francisco/Palo Alto tech community and grow high-net-worth (HNW) giving. You will own the full donor lifecycle—sourcing, cultivating, closing, and stewarding six- and seven-figure gifts—while acting as GD’s strategic ambassador across the Bay Area ecosystem. 

This is a rare senior individual-contributor role that puts you in the room with the Bay Area’s most influential founders, engineers, and investors—converting their curiosity into six- and seven-figure gifts that directly reduce extreme poverty. You’ll build on GiveDirectly’s current Bay Area relationships while opening new doors through curated salons, warm-intro networks, and targeted partnerships. You’ll work closely with the CEO on pivotal donor conversations and strategy and be expected to operate in a high-trust, high-autonomy, outcome-driven environment.

Level: Senior Manager

Travel Requirement: Must be able to travel ~1-2 times per year to one of our countries of operation for team retreats or field visits 

What you’ll do:

• Own and grow a major giving portfolio: Steward and upgrade a defined book while opening net-new doors across founders, early employees, VCs, and advisors/DAFs.
• Prospect systematically: Build a high-quality top-of-funnel (research, warm intros, small co-hosted gatherings), qualify efficiently, and maintain accurate forecasts and next steps.
• Support leadership: leverage senior leaders to grow our impact with the highest impact partners; plan visits, brief for meetings, support events.
• Host & attend the right things: Curate micro-salons/dinners; represent GD at high-signal tech/AI events; partner with credible insiders for co-hosted convenings.
• Build Bay Area partnerships: Create repeatable channels—community events, employer/DAF talks and matches, founder-led brand collaborations—that reliably produce donors or visibility with high-value audiences.
• Translate impact for technologists: Do pr