Open Philanthropy is growing rapidly. The organization has almost doubled in size over the past two years, and the Recruiting team has overseen every step of those acquisitions, helping teams do everything from identifying their initial hiring needs to making final offers. We develop and implement the systems by which Open Philanthropy finds and evaluates top talent, and serve as its institutional memory and point of call for all things hiring. The team currently has eight members, led by Phil Zealley. Open Philanthropy's impact relies on having top talent work on important problems. To support that mission, we’re looking to add more recruiters to enable Open Philanthropy to grow our team and our impact.

Recruiting at Open Philanthropy currently comprises two workstreams — pipeline development and round management. Roughly, pipeline development is everything we do to get strong candidates to apply, and round management is everything we do to help hiring managers hire the strongest candidate from the applicant pool. Recruiters generally specialize in one of these two workstreams, though they may periodically assist in the other. This posting is for both the round management and pipeline development workstreams, as well as a third: support for active grantmaking. This new workstream involves sourcing leaders to found initiatives that address critical gaps in the AI safety and global catastrophic risk ecosystems. We aim to make multiple hires across these three workstreams.

What you'd be doing

You'll represent Open Philanthropy to candidates, hiring managers, and external partners, serving as a key face of the organization. Regardless of your primary focus, you'll spend time maintaining and improving our recruiting systems and working on strategic projects. Recent examples include developing hiring forecasts, updating evaluation processes in response to LLM developments, and building new dashboards for data analysis.

If you focus on round management, you'll own hiring projects from start to finish, typically managing several rounds simultaneously. This includes:

Project management: Determining evaluation steps, planning round timelines, guiding hiring managers through the process, coordinating stakeholders and information streams at key decision points, and tracking the overall progress of the round to make sure nothing (and no one) falls through the cracks.

Candidate evaluation: Reviewing applications, interviewing candidates, and developing or advising on work tests.

Providing guidance: Advising hiring managers on key decisions, maintaining legal compliance, and upholding the overall standards of the hiring process.

Stakeholder management: Interfacing with candidates, responding to questions and requests, and ensuring that all parties are kept up to speed as rounds evolve.

Infrastructure: Setting up and maintaining the back-end systems for each round to ensure a seamless operation from start to finish.

If you focus on pipeline development, you'll spend most of your time leading sourcing for our hiring rounds by finding and inviting leads, taking informational calls with promising candidates, responding to indications of interest, and promoting our job opportunities across a variety of external channels. You'll also own and contribute to a variety of other sourcing efforts that help us find and engage strong candidates. These efforts involve:

Network building & partnerships: Cultivating our internal and external referral networks. This includes managing relationships with external partners (such as grantees, relevant community organizers, and peer organizations) and serving as a primary point of contact for the recruiting team.

Events & representation: Traveling to relevant conferences (e.g., EA Global, the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative) to represent Open Phil and develop relationships with potential referrers.

Improving systems & reporting: Maintaining and improving systems for tracking leads, relationships, and sourcing outcomes, ensuring these systems effectively capture pipeline health and sourcing efforts for senior leadership.

Employer brand collaboration: Shaping how we present ourselves to potential candidates and guiding updates to platforms like our Careers page and Glassdoor account, occasionally collaborating with Open Phil's Communications team on employer branding efforts.

If you focus on supporting active grantmaking founder searches, you'll help to launch new initiatives by finding the right leaders to run them. When our program teams identify a critical gap in the ecosystem, you'll support the search for founders. This involves:

Broad candidate sourcing and screening: Conducting screening calls with potential founders to assess their interest, fit, and strategic alignment with the project vision. Many strong candidates have only recently become engaged with AGI risk and aren't yet in our networks, so you'll help with outreach and candidate assessment to identify and bring in new talent.

External firm management: Managing relationships with executive search firms when we engage them for particularly specialized searches.

Candidate experience management: Keeping candidates engaged, informed, and excited throughout search processes.

Project management: Managing the logistics and timeline of founder searches, coordinating between program staff for later-stage interviews and assessment, and ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.

All that said, it's hard to predict everything you might do. We're a rapidly growing organization where priorities can shift, and all staff pitch in across different areas to support our mission. While you'll specialize in one workstream, you may occasionally assist with the other.

Who we're looking for

We think people from a variety of backgrounds could be great fits for our team. The relative importance of different skills will vary depending on which workstream you'd focus on, but we're looking for candidates who bring many of the qualities outlined below.

You might be a great fit for this work if you:

• Have strong project management skills. You are highly organized in your own work, and also able to ensure other stakeholders stay on track. You'll obsess over maintaining a clean candidate pipeline.
• Have strong interpersonal and communication skills. You'll represent Open Philanthropy to candidates, external partners, and hiring managers. You can build trust, convey what's compelling about working here, navigate sensitive conversations effectively, and maintain a high degree of transparency.
• Like to move fast, get things done, and prioritize aggressively. We treat all recruiting work as urgent by default.
• Enjoy thinking about people and organizational needs. You can assess individual potential against complex role requirements, take a broad, systems-level view of Open Philanthropy's talent needs across diverse cause areas, and connect strategy to long-term goals.
• Are excited about supporting Open Phil's work across cause areas. You'll need enough context to identify and interface effectively with people working across our cause areas, whether that's biosecurity, navigating transformative AI, abundance and growth, or effective giving and careers. You don't need to be a subject matter expert in any of these fields, but you should be passionate about our mission.
• Are conscientious and organized — you're reliable and responsive, and make sure important deliverables and relationships don't fall through the cracks.
• Enjoy iterating and improving processes. You're skilled at breaking down complex workflows and optimizing them for clarity and efficiency.

Experience requirements

• For round management, we're looking for candidates with at least a year (and likely more) of operations experience who have successfully managed fast-moving processes.
• For pipeline development, direct prior experience leading a sourcing

• Represent Open Philanthropy to candidates, hiring managers, and external partners.
• Maintain and improve recruiting systems and work on strategic projects.
• Manage hiring projects from start to finish, including project management, candidate evaluation, providing guidance, stakeholder management, and infrastructure setup.
• Lead sourcing efforts by finding and inviting leads, taking informational calls, and promoting job opportunities.
• Build and maintain internal and external referral networks.
• Represent Open Philanthropy at relevant conferences and events.
• Improve systems for tracking leads, relationships, and sourcing outcomes.
• Collaborate on employer branding efforts.
• Support active grantmaking founder searches by sourcing and screening candidates.
• Manage relationships with executive search firms.
• Manage candidate experience throughout search processes.
• Manage logistics and timelines of founder searches.

• Strong project management skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to move fast and prioritize aggressively
• Ability to assess individual potential against complex role requirements
• Passion for Open Philanthropy's mission and cause areas
• Conscientiousness and organization
• Ability to iterate and improve processes

• At least a year of operations experience for round management
• Direct prior experience leading a sourcing for pipeline development