Managing Director, Philanthropic Advisory

Coefficient Giving is hiring a Managing Director, Philanthropic Advisory to lead our growing partnerships work, build a new advisory practice from the ground up, and help shape our organizational strategy as a member of our leadership team. We face a historic opportunity to scale philanthropic giving to the highest‑impact causes, from global health and biosecurity to AI safety and beyond. We want to build the infrastructure to make that happen, with a goal of eventually directing more than $1 billion annually from donors beyond our founding partner, Good Ventures. Your job is to build the bespoke advisory practice that supports the next generation of major philanthropists, while overseeing and expanding our current funds and partnership offerings. While the advisory function spans our full portfolio, we expect AI safety and biosecurity philanthropy to be a key part of your work. About Coefficient Giving Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is a philanthropic funder and advisor that has directed more than $5 billion in grants since 2014. In 2025 we directed over $900 million from our founding partner Good Ventures and over $250 million from other donors, and we continue to rapidly scale both. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost‑effective, high‑impact giving. Our current funds include Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence, Biosecurity&Pandemic Preparedness, Science and Global Health R&D, Farm Animal Welfare, Abundance&Growth, and more. We’re proud of our track record: Our grants to evidence‑backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives, and our farm animal welfare grants have improved the lives of over 3 billion animals. We supported the late‑stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally. We were the earliest major funder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing. Our grantees have led the charge on major wins such as City of Yes in New York, and SB 79 in California, which will enable hundreds of thousands of new housing units. We jumpstarted the field of AI safety and security and have played a vital role in addressing other existential threats, such as mirror bacteria. About our philanthropic advisory work We started more than a decade ago as a partnership with Good Ventures, the foundation of Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, with a vision that we’d eventually grow to work with other partners as well. That began in earnest in 2024 with our $100 million‑plus Lead Exposure Action Fund. In 2025, we more than doubled our partnerships work, helping direct more than $250 million from other donors. While we’re off to a strong start, we aim to build something more ambitious to meet the current moment. A growing cohort of donors is ready to deploy significant philanthropic capital cost‑effectively across many causes. We expect many of the most important potential partners to require a higher level of advisory staffing and support—the same kind of dedicated, expert guidance that Cari and Dustin relied on at the outset of Good Ventures. We want to build an advisory practice to offer that same depth of support to new philanthropists while continuing to invest in our existing partnership offerings, which are growing rapidly. Coefficient Giving is unusually well‑placed to capitalize on this opportunity: We have a reputation for rigor and an unusually strong track record of effective giving at scale. We have a growing number of strong connections and existing relationships with potential major donors interested in our approach to philanthropy. Dustin and Cari are effective ambassadors to our target audience. They’re among the most generous young philanthropists in the country and bring both credibility and direct relationships to this work. While we think we’re well‑positioned to scale, we don’t want to grow for growth’s sake; we want to remain flexible and continue to prioritize impact above all else. Success could also look like helping new donors get started in selecting causes and staffing up their own independent foundations rather than work with Coefficient long‑term. About this role This role would sit on our leadership team, reporting to CEO Alexander Berger, and would lead our partnerships team currently around a dozen people across three sub‑teams. It would also build out a new advisory practice to support the very largest new philanthropists. The Managing Director, Philanthropic Advisory will: Build out a new bespoke advisory function from the ground up to ensure the next generation of high‑impact philanthropists are as effective as possible. Ensure we’re delivering on key donor relationships—typically via other members of your team and the leadership team, but also by representing Coefficient Giving externally. To do this well, you will need to develop expertise across our funds and the broader ecosystem of approaches to effective philanthropy. Develop a multi‑year strategy to more than quadruple our non‑Good Ventures funding directed to $1 billion per year. Manage and grow our partnerships team to execute your strategy effectively, ensuring consistent excellence in deliverables for partners. Work alongside the leadership team on major organizational decisions, representing the perspectives of external donor partners. What we’re looking for This is an unusual role; we don’t expect there to be a perfect profile. We’re looking for someone with an outstanding track record leading teams or organizations, deep knowledge of at least one of our cause areas and the ability to get up to speed quickly on the others, commitment to our mission and approach, and a track record of building strong relationships with funders or customers. We don’t expect a fundraising background by default: our ideal hire might be the kind of person we’d hire to lead our own cause selection process, but who happens to be unusually outgoing and has experience working with funders. Another archetype could be consulting firm partners, who can bottom‑line sophisticated analysis while also selling work. Some traits we’re particularly looking for: Substantive depth: deep knowledge of at least one of our major cause areas, with the curiosity and capacity to engage credibly across others. Strategic judgment: bringing rigor and judgment to org‑wide decision‑making and in setting priorities across partnership and advisory work. Effective executive: high personal output and a track record of building, developing, and retaining strong teams. Ownership and initiative: spotting gaps, proposing fixes, and driving workstreams with minimal oversight. Strong external representation: can compellingly explain our value proposition to varied audiences. Role details & benefits Compensation: We anticipate total compensation for this role of around $508,000 (including an unconditional 401(k) grant of $24,500.00), with the potential for considerably higher compensation depending on the candidate’s fit and experience. These compensation figures assume a location in the San Francisco Bay Area or Washington, D.C., where we have offices. Candidates based in New York City would receive a ~5% downward adjustment, and there would be a ~10% downward adjustment for candidates based elsewhere. Location: We prefer candidates based in the Bay Area, though we are open to candidates working remotely who are able to overlap significantly with Pacific Time and willing to travel to the Bay frequently. We are happy to consider sponsoring U.S. work authorization. However, we don’t control who is and isn’t eligible for a visa and can’t guarantee visa approval. Benefits: Our benefits package includes: Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the US for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer‑funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses 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 Support for remote work We can’t always provide every benefit we offer U.S. 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: Ideally, we’d like new hires to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, but we can be flexible for exceptional candidates. 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, contact View email address on click.appcast.io. Please apply by 11:59 p.m. PT on May 3, 2026 to be considered. We will consider candidates on a rolling basis, so earlier submission is recommended. U.S.-based staff are typically employed by Coefficient Giving LLC, which is not a 501(c)(3) tax‑exempt organization. As such, this role is unlikely to be eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs. We may use AI to assist in the initial screening of applications, including to detect whether candidates have used AI models in drafting their applications. Decisions are always made by a human on our team. 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