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    About Open Philanthropy

    Open Philanthropy is a grantmaker; our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We stress openness to many possibilities and have chosen our focus areas based on importance, neglectedness, and tractability. We’re particularly interested in high-risk, high-reward giving that may be too unconventional for other funders. Our current giving areas include global health and development, scientific research, South Asian air quality, farm animal welfare, biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, and potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.

     

    About the team

    Open Philanthropy is growing rapidly (we’ve roughly doubled our staff size over the past year and a half). Our recruiting team hires top talent as seamlessly as possible for specific roles, while generally building Open Philanthropy’s talent pipeline through proactive outreach and sourcing. As a team, we look for ways to make our selection process more truth-seeking and calibrated over time while treating candidates well.

     

    What you’d be doing

    • Helping hiring managers and teams at Open Philanthropy to hire top talent as seamlessly as possible. You would be project managing the hiring process for several rounds at a time and managing all candidate-facing communications for your rounds (e.g., doing informational calls and screening interviews with candidates, answering their questions by email, etc.).
    • Maintaining and improving internal hiring systems. You would start out by taking over specific repeated processes (e.g., running and analyzing the candidate survey) and eventually might take ownership of one or more big-picture areas of our work (e.g., reviewing and evaluating our work tests at the meta-level, or creating a roadmap for improving the end-to-end candidate experience and executing on it).

    That said, it’s hard to predict everything that you might be doing—we’re a rapidly growing organization, and expect all staff to be flexible about what they work on and put contributing to our mission first. For example, you might sometimes take part in outreach and sourcing (advertising roles, reaching out to partners for referrals, contacting leads, conducting introductory calls with prospective candidates, representing Open Philanthropy at events, etc.).

     

    Who we’re looking for

    No recruiting experience is required, but we will be looking for at least a year or two of operations-relevant experience, with evidence that you’ve successfully managed fast-moving processes without dropping balls. You might be a great fit for this work if you:

    • Are conscientious, highly organized, and independent. You’ll obsess over maintaining a clean candidate pipeline and make sure (almost) nothing falls through the cracks.
    • Enjoy thinking about people, and figuring out what they’d be good at and where they could contribute — a task that involves making complex judgements and taking a broad view of the organization’s needs.
    • Have strong interpersonal and communication skills. For many candidates, you’ll be “the face of Open Phil”, and you’ll be able to convey what’s special about the organization and why it’s great to work here while also maintaining our high level of desired transparency with candidates.
    • Like to move fast, get things done, and prioritize aggressively; we generally treat all recruiting work as urgent by default.
    • Enjoy iterating and improving on processes; you’re skilled at breaking complex workflows down and taking them apart to make sure they’re working as well as possible.

    We’re especially excited by candidates with existing networks and interests relevant to our talent needs (particularly within the longtermist and/or effective altruism communities).

    We don’t think it’s necessary to have every quality described above to the same degree; there is no such thing as a “perfect” candidate. If you’re on the fence about applying because you are unsure whether you are qualified, we would strongly encourage you to apply.

     

    Role details & benefits

    • Compensation: The baseline compensation for this role is $108,359.20, which (for US hires) would be distributed as a base salary of $94,225.39 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $14,133.81.
      • These compensation figures assume a remote location; there would be geographic adjustments upwards for candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area or Washington, D.C.
      • All compensation will be distributed in the form of take-home salary for internationally based hires.
    • Time zones and location: You can work from anywhere. While we aren’t able to sponsor visas for this role, we are open to hires outside the US willing to consistently overlap with US business hours for 5-6 hours of the day. Our current team is dispersed from the Western US through UK time zones.
    • Benefits: Our benefits package includes:
      • Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any dependents)
      • Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family
      • Four weeks of PTO recommended per year
      • Four months of fully paid family leave
      • A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive
      • Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with an Open Phil coworking hub in your city
      • We can’t always provide every benefit we offer US staff to international hires, but we’re working on it (and will usually provide cash equivalents of any benefits we can’t offer in your country)
    • Start date: We’d like candidates to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, though we understand and will do our best to work with constraints due to exiting other commitments, etc.


    We’re considering applicants on a rolling basis, and may give preference to candidates who complete our process sooner. Please apply as soon as you’re able.

    We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We are committed to creating an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

    If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@openphilanthropy.org.