Product Lead

Summary

Join GiveDirectly's Product team as a Director and lead cross-functional teams to develop, optimize, and scale products that deliver cash grants to the world's poorest. You will set the vision and define success for your products, ensuring program quality and supporting fundraising efforts. This fully remote role requires at least 3 hours of overlap with an East Africa timezone and involves travel to program sites up to once per quarter. You will manage high-performing teams, drive alignment, and make critical decisions to maintain focus. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in a similar role and exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly's values.

Requirements

• Exceptional alignment to GD values , passion for our mission, and commitment to recipient dignity and empowerment
• 8+ years of professional work experience in similar role or function (product, programs, business development, partnerships)
• Proven leadership ability and management experience in building high performing teams
• Experience working with a distributed team in a multicultural environment
• Interest in working as part of a growing company, with awareness about the opportunities and challenges that come with a highly adaptive environment
• Strong, succinct communications: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders
• Analytical problem solver: Looks at problems w/ analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization

Responsibilities

• Set vision and define success for their products
• Product leads must set multi-year vision and annual/quarterly goals for their products, as well as defining interim milestones to track progress
• They should have a clear sense of their products’ value proposition and competitive advantage (what makes this product better than the next best alternative?)
• They should streamline product development and implementation across tech and research functions, using key levers for efficiency, including but not limited to survey builds, design adaptations, and tech-enabled innovations (e.g. AI/LLMs, new operational frameworks, etc)
• Drive program quality
• Product leads must set minimum standards for their products, in close consultation with the Programs teams, and closely monitor implementation to identify gaps and areas of concern
• Product leads must partner with programs teams to troubleshoot implementation, leveraging ops and program data to identify pain points and drill down into solutions
• Support fundraising
• Product leads will conduct or oversee robust market assessments for their products, and be propositional on how GiveDirectly positions those products
• They will also support fundraising efforts, primarily by supporting existing relationship owners but occasionally owning their own relationships with key funders (e.g. anchor funders)
• Manage high performing cross-functional teams
• Product leads are responsible for assembling (with the VP of Product) and motivating cross-functional teams toward a common goal
• Drive for alignment with their product teams, establishing key operational principles and ways of working early (given they will not manage direct reports)
• ���Clean escalate” as needed to VP of Product if and when there is misalignment between key product stakeholders

Benefits

• A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement
• A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow
• A competitive salary, including bonus
• A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
• Flexible paid time off
• Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development