Head of Strategic Partnerships & Influence (Remote)

About the Role

Your goal is to build the profile and credibility of direct cash transfers with tech, finance, and thought leader communities — the people who shape how smart, high-capacity donors think about where to give.

This role sits on the marketing/communications team, and will work with thought leaders, public intellectuals and influencers to turn them into a coordinated force for getting people talking about fighting poverty effectively.

Individual surrogates are the primary focus. Secondary is our nascent brand partnership strategy — identifying fintech platforms, personal finance media, consumer brands, and other major organizations where GiveDirectly's mission creates natural co-branding opportunities. These partnerships would be awareness plays first. We're less interested in roundup dollars than in being the organization users think of when they want to give meaningfully.

You will lead a small team within our marketing team, partnering closely with peers leading press, content, social media, thought leadership, and fundraising.

This role is a great fit if you have a combination of:

• Familiarity with leading writers, thinkers, and public intellectuals in finance, tech, economics, international development. You’re comfortable working with public intellectuals on big ideas and rigorous evidence.
• Think big and are creative with partnership driven marketing, brand, and events.
• Super strong relationally; builds rapport quickly, can connect with any room of people, but particularly tech, finance, and research communities.
• The right person might have been a founder, in business development / marketing / partnerships, or have done a lot of writing / thought leadership themselves.

This role might NOT be a fit if:

• You've mostly done paid marketing → Are wins measured in CPMs and ROAS? Ours aren't. We have less than $100k for paid partnerships total. The job is building relationships good enough that people say yes without a check.
• You’ve focused on micro-creators on TikTok/IG → Is your portfolio lifestyle brands and DTC products? Our best surrogates to date are economists, tech journalists, policy wonks, and podcast hosts with