We’re hiring a Cause Prioritization Lead to help GiveWell decide where to look next—building a portfolio of early-stage grants in emerging cause areas and moving quickly on promising opportunities that don’t fit our existing teams.
This is a Senior Program Officer-level role on our New Areas team, where you’ll build and lead a new subteam. Recent examples of areas the team has explored include market shaping, health systems strengthening, and applications of AI to global health.
As Cause Prioritization Lead, you will:
Own and improve how GiveWell prioritizes cause areas, combining evidence, cost-effectiveness modeling, and judgment
Oversee a portfolio of grant investigations across our highest-priority emerging cause areas, and build the research agenda behind them
Investigate our more complicated opportunities directly, including programs at an earlier stage of development or support for government prioritization and planning
Build a network across implementers, funders, and academia to source new ideas
Manage and develop a small team that can respond quickly to unusual opportunities
We’re looking for a strategic generalist—someone who imposes structure on broad, undefined problems, gets up to speed fast on unfamiliar topics, makes bets under uncertainty, and can find the crux of an argument in a field they don’t know well.
Details:
Remote-friendly (US + international case-by-case)
$308,000 (NYC / SF Bay Area) | $280,000 (all other US locations) | international rates available
Visit Weeks twice a year in our Oakland office, plus up to two annual departmental retreats
Application deadline: September 30, 2026
Our typical senior hire has a quantitatively oriented advanced degree and 5-10 years of post-grad experience, though we’re open to candidates with commensurate experience who don’t fit that mold exactly. Cause prioritization experience at an aligned organization is a plus, not a requirement.
If you’re motivated by rigor, transparency, and having a direct say in where global health funding goes next, we’d love to see you apply.
GiveWell Hiring: Cause Prioritization Lead
We’re hiring a Cause Prioritization Lead to help GiveWell decide where to look next—building a portfolio of early-stage grants in emerging cause areas and moving quickly on promising opportunities that don’t fit our existing teams.
This is a Senior Program Officer-level role on our New Areas team, where you’ll build and lead a new subteam. Recent examples of areas the team has explored include market shaping, health systems strengthening, and applications of AI to global health.
As Cause Prioritization Lead, you will:
Own and improve how GiveWell prioritizes cause areas, combining evidence, cost-effectiveness modeling, and judgment
Oversee a portfolio of grant investigations across our highest-priority emerging cause areas, and build the research agenda behind them
Investigate our more complicated opportunities directly, including programs at an earlier stage of development or support for government prioritization and planning
Build a network across implementers, funders, and academia to source new ideas
Manage and develop a small team that can respond quickly to unusual opportunities
We’re looking for a strategic generalist—someone who imposes structure on broad, undefined problems, gets up to speed fast on unfamiliar topics, makes bets under uncertainty, and can find the crux of an argument in a field they don’t know well.
Details:
Remote-friendly (US + international case-by-case)
$308,000 (NYC / SF Bay Area) | $280,000 (all other US locations) | international rates available
Fully funded health/dental/vision/life insurance, four weeks PTO + annual summer break, 16 weeks fully paid parental leave, 403(b) with automatic 5% employer contribution
Visit Weeks twice a year in our Oakland office, plus up to two annual departmental retreats
Application deadline: September 30, 2026
Our typical senior hire has a quantitatively oriented advanced degree and 5-10 years of post-grad experience, though we’re open to candidates with commensurate experience who don’t fit that mold exactly. Cause prioritization experience at an aligned organization is a plus, not a requirement.
If you’re motivated by rigor, transparency, and having a direct say in where global health funding goes next, we’d love to see you apply.
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