Managing Director, Philanthropic Advisory

Coefficient Giving

2d•$508,000•Remote

About The Position

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 like 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 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 the 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.

Requirements

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
Track record of building strong relationships with funders or customers
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.

Responsibilities

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 >$1b/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.

Benefits

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

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