Teams at GiveWell

Lead GiveWell’s legal function as its primary legal decision-maker, developing legal strategy, overseeing nonprofit compliance, managing contracting, and advising executives and the Board. Build and lead a scalable legal team and modernize legal administration through technology and automation. Provide strategic leadership for Grants Administration, guide complex grant structures, and partner cross-functionally on employment, privacy, security, intellectual property, governance, international expansion, and operational risks.

Lead and improve GiveWell's cause prioritization process, build and manage a sub-team within New Areas, oversee early-stage grant investigations and portfolios, perform evidence review and cost-effectiveness modelling, communicate externally to source ideas, and directly investigate complex grantmaking opportunities to inform large funding decisions.

Lead methodological, cross-portfolio research to improve GiveWell's grantmaking. Combine evidence review, cost-effectiveness modeling, field insights, expert consultation, and judgment to answer high-priority questions, pressure-test teams, develop research agendas, mentor researchers, and communicate findings internally and externally.