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 presentations/talks, craft concise briefs and proposals that connect GD's evidence and operating model to a builder's mindset; tailor for technical and executive audiences.
Operate with data: Keep impeccable CRM hygiene; regularly test new initiatives (events, intros, content), measure results, and double-down on what converts.
Requirements
Connector-operator: Demonstrated success with high value relationships (in tech/AI/finance), whether it's as a founder, fundraiser, consulting, sales or biz dev, converting curiosity to commitments and upgrading renewals.
Bay Area ecosystem fluency: Credible with founders, engineers, investors; comfortable in rooms hosted by AI labs and venture firms; adept at convening the right co-hosts and guests.
Outbound hunter mentality: Proactive prospector with a repeatable approach to qualifying, advancing, and forecasting pipeline; disciplined CRM hygiene.
Deep alignment with GiveDirectly's values: impact oriented, fast moving, positive, candid.
Exceptional written and verbal communicator: Ability to translate evidence and operations into founder-friendly "giving products" and memos; giving talks; comfortable discussing data and evidence with technical audiences.
Autonomous with high operational rigor: A self-starter, comfortable operating in ambiguity, with strong project management skills and clarity in fast-moving, entrepreneurial contexts
Who should apply (three broad profiles)
Fundraising & capital-raising track: Major gifts/advancement, family office/DAF advisory, or philanthropy consulting-comfortable structuring six- and seven-figure gifts (stock, DAFs, crypto) and stewarding HNW portfolios.
Biz dev / sales / partnerships track: Tech BD or enterprise sales, VC/platform partnerships, operator co
Benefits
Paid time offRemote work optionsEquity / stock options
Additional Information
GiveDirectly has delivered more than $1B in cash directly to 2+ million people living in poverty across 15 countries since 2011. We believe cash transfers are one of the most scalable, cost-effective, and dignified forms of aid, with the research to back it up. Our work has been covered by The Economist , NPR , TED , and The Washington Post . We are one of Time100's Most Influential Companies of 2026.
Our culture is candid, analytical, and non-hierarchical. We support high ownership and real professional growth. Curious about what it's really like to work here? Read our values and hear from the people who do . If they resonate, this could be a great fit!
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
Givedirectly · San Francisco