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GiveWell is a research organization that identifies and funds cost-effective giving opportunities, focusing on global health and well-being. Our work is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025.
GiveWell's senior research staff are the key decision makers for hundreds of millions of dollars in grantmaking, and we think growing that team is one of the most important things we can do to increase our impact. We're seeking one or more Senior Recruiters to help us do that.
Finding senior research staff is a hard problem for a couple reasons:
We want you to figure out where to find strong candidates, improve our assessment process, and do the hands-on work of sourcing, screening, and closing offers. You'll work very closely with our research leadership team. We're most excited about finding someone who helps us make better decisions about finding great talent — and hire them faster.
You'd work closely with our research team leaders to own recruiting for our Researcher, Program Officer, Senior Researcher, and Senior Program Officer roles. A few problems we’ll want you to think about:
After candidates apply, is our assessment process effective? Our offer rate for senior roles is below 0.1%. That might mean we’re extremely selective. It might also mean we’re losing good candidates somewhere in the funnel. You’ll dig into our data and find answers (How well do early screening scores predict work trial performance? What are the most common rejection reasons, and are they signal or noise? How did past hires actually turn out?). You’ll help us develop good heuristics about what to do in situations when candidates’ signals are mixed.
Where do we even find good candidates? The ideal GiveWell researcher doesn’t come from one degree program, industry, or competitor. You’ll think about where to look and go after them. And you’ll continually develop new pipelines with creative methods (running structured referral conversations with our researchers, scouring conference guest lists, using sourcing tools creatively, or maybe vibe-coding your own).
How can we use data to make better decisions? Right now, we don’t have great visibility into which sourcing channels, process changes, or pipeline stages are driving results. You’ll track data, run analyses, and help us make evidence-based decisions about where to put effort. In some cases, you might find out that we don’t have the right data architecture to answer important questions, so you’ll build it.
What are ways our hiring process could be much better? This is harder to describe because it covers ~every strategic and tactical question we face. We want you to be thinking about all of it. Things like: Are we overweighting particular qualities and losing promising candidates without noticing? How could we run experiments on our hiring processes (randomization, A/B testing, sourcing campaigns) that actually give us useful information?
You’ll also do a fair amount of bread-and-butter recruiting work: screening applications, writing outreach emails, and interviewing candidates. We think that sort of work will keep you close to the data and help you develop strong pattern recognition.
You’re excited about GiveWell's mission and methods. You think GiveWell is doing something special, not just generically “doing good.” You can explain what makes GiveWell different.
You’re careful and truth-seeking with your beliefs. For example, if a hiring manager says we need to find “scrappy” people, you’re likely to ask “Why do you believe that?” or “What does scrappy mean?” instead of uncritically agreeing. You’re quick to update your beliefs by picking up new information and asking sharper questions. You can probably tell us about times when you’ve changed your mind about important things.
You're unusually curious and analytical. When you get invested in a question, you keep trying to find the right answer after many other people would have stopped. You ground your beliefs in data when possible and hedge appropriately when you’re not confident.
You have very high standards. We have a high competence bar for our research team, and you’ll need to uphold that and own your decisions about applications that do and don’t meet our bar.
You’re entrepreneurial and high agency. You figure things out. You have a history of solving problems. You’re very resourceful. You’re more likely to make the mistake of moving too fast than moving too slow. You'd rather try something imperfect and learn from it than wait for a perfect plan.
You're direct. You say what you actually think even when it's uncomfortable.
You’re good at communicating in writing. You're concise, clear, and you don't hide behind jargon. You probably enjoy an effective memo.
If you think people who know you well would agree that many of the qualities above describe you, we’d like you to apply.
We care much more about the qualities described above than any specific background. That said, some things that might help:
Recruiting experience is welcome but not required. Some of the best people in comparable roles at peer organizations came in without it. And we’ll support you if you want to move on to other things at GiveWell after making progress on our research recruiting. There's always a place here for generalists who are good at solving hard problems, and we have a history of developing high performers into different roles across our org.
What are some of the reasons I might not like this role?
What does growth look like in this role?
GiveWell’s growing, and you’re going to help shape that. Your growth will be tied directly to the impact created by the people you help hire. Beyond day-to-day recruiting, you’ll have the opportunity to work on more strategic projects, including shaping our overall hiring approach and improving our employer brand. In this role you’ll also have significant exposure to executive leadership and many corners of our business. The talent acquisition team is doubling in 2026, which means there are clear opportunities for mentorship and potentially growing into a team leader.
What does this interview process entail?
We'll use a combination of interviews, written exercises, and work trials to assess the qualities described above. Past versions have looked like:
We'll share more specific details if we invite you to move forward, but our current plan is:
This role sits on GiveWell's People team and reports to our Manager of Talent Acquisition. Day-to-day, you'd work in close partnership with our Research Program Director, who owns senior research hiring decisions and is part of our Research Leadership Team. You'd collaborate regularly with other members of the People and Research teams on sourcing and candidate evaluation.
We'll likely also want you to attend research team meetings, develop 1:1 relationships with research team members, and potentially join research team-building retreats. We’ll be interested in ~any kind of team embedding that helps you build useful context.
We don't want to miss candidates who could do great things at GiveWell. If you're on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway.
GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. We value our team's diversity in all respects and desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org.
GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify.
Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. In the last two years, we’ve made more than $500 million in grants. GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts, and we estimate that the funding we’ve directed will save more than 340,000 lives.
GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, antimalarial nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity is devoted to finding cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs.
GiveWell grants have:
We never take for granted that GiveWell’s work is good for the world. We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research and external analysis to address our uncertainties and insisting that our grantees conduct rigorous monitoring and evaluation. We change our minds when the evidence demands it.
We don’t want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a GiveWell staff member reviews every application carefully, considering the whole picture of your background and potential. If you’re on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway.
GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team’s diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination—we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By submitting an application, you acknowledge that you have read and consent to GiveWell’s Privacy Statement for Applicants. By completing an application exercise, you acknowledge and assent to GiveWell’s Work Trial Policy.
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GiveWell is a research organization that identifies and funds cost-effective giving opportunities, focusing on global health and well-being. Our work is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025.
GiveWell is growing fast to move more donations to where we think they will do exceptional good for people in need. But it takes unique talent to thrive here, and finding those candidates requires much more than posting jobs and screening resumes. We're hiring a Senior Recruiter who will actively search for exceptional people, uphold an extremely high bar, and serve as a true thought partner to leaders across the organization — because the quality of our hires is key to how many lives we can save and improve.
Why we're hiring for this role right now: GiveWell surpassed 100 employees in early 2026, and we’re continuing to grow. We have increased hiring goals in Operations and Outreach, and we’re building capacity to tackle that. As our hiring scales, we’re also investing in improving our approach with smarter sourcing, a stronger employer brand, and creating hiring infrastructure. This is a real opportunity to help shape what great recruiting looks like at a mission-driven organization that takes hiring seriously.
As a Senior Recruiter, you’ll be a hunter for rare talent and the right organizational fit — one week building a sourcing strategy for a niche finance role, the next networking to find a senior communications candidate or learning a new function well enough to advise a hiring manager on what “great” looks like. You’ll own full-cycle recruiting for roles across GiveWell's Operations and Outreach functions — think Finance, Legal, Tech, Philanthropy, and Communications — and pitch in on research recruiting when needed. Day to day, you’ll work across multiple job openings on the following:
You’ll also plan substantial time thinking about our recruiting challenges, and contributing to our overall hiring strategy. Some of the questions you’ll focus on:
The strongest candidates will have 3+ years of professional experience recruiting for hard-to-fill positions in a performance-driven environment. Beyond that, here’s what we’re really looking for:
You’re excited about GiveWell’s mission and methods. You think GiveWell is doing something special, not just generically “doing good” and that matters to you, personally. You can explain what makes GiveWell different, and are fascinated by what makes a candidate successful here. You are intent on finding more top performers and won’t settle for less.
You’re entrepreneurial and high agency. You are great at identifying opportunities to drive progress forward, faster. You notice gaps, ask good questions, and find solutions. If you’ve ever redesigned a broken process, built a sourcing strategy from scratch, or pushed back on a hiring manager because you had a better idea, that's the kind of energy we're looking for.
Adaptability and curiosity. You adjust your approach to recruiting based on what each role and hiring manager actually needs — not a formula you apply to everything. You’re genuinely curious about the work happening across GiveWell, and that curiosity shows up in how you engage with candidates and hiring teams alike.
Strong communication. You write and speak with accuracy and the right tone. Internally, that means being concise and specific. Externally, it means writing outreach that actually gets responses and navigating discussions with sophisticated candidates.
Solid judgment. You’re an expert at assessing candidates’ behaviors and patterns and making excellent judgment calls, even in ambiguous situations. You personally hold high standards and seek to elevate the teams you support, and should have a point of view (that you can back up!) on what makes a strong candidate.
Highly organized. You’re meticulous in how you prepare, document, and track your work. You love a well-run meeting and a clean spreadsheet.
While not required, we’re particularly interested in candidates who possess:
What are some of the reasons I might not like this role?
GiveWell has a unique approach to hiring, and it’s possible that you’ll dislike it. For example, we tend to lean heavily into work trials and finding empirical evidence about the candidates we hire. We are rigorous in how we evaluate candidates, and hold really high standards, which can lead to longer hiring rounds with more steps than what is typical elsewhere. We’re extremely quality focused and would rather hold out for the right candidate than settle on someone who’s “mostly right.”
What does growth look like in this role?
GiveWell’s growing, and you’re going to help shape that. Your growth will be tied directly to the impact created by the people you help hire. Beyond day-to-day recruiting, you’ll have the opportunity to work on more strategic projects, including shaping our overall hiring approach and improving our employer brand. In this role you’ll also have significant exposure to executive leadership and many corners of our business. The talent acquisition team is doubling in 2026, which means there are clear opportunities for mentorship and potentially growing into a team leader.
What does this interview process entail?
We'll use a combination of interviews, written exercises, and work trials to assess the qualities described above. Past versions have looked like:
We'll share more specific details if we invite you to move forward, but our current plan is:
We don't want to miss candidates who could do great things at GiveWell. If you're on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply anyway.
GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. We value our team's diversity in all respects and desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org.
GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify.
Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. In the last two years, we’ve made more than $500 million in grants. GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts, and we estimate that the funding we’ve directed will save more than 340,000 lives.
GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, antimalarial nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity is devoted to finding cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs.
GiveWell grants have:
We never take for granted that GiveWell’s work is good for the world. We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research and external analysis to address our uncertainties and insisting that our grantees conduct rigorous monitoring and evaluation. We change our minds when the evidence demands it.
We don’t want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a GiveWell staff member reviews every application carefully, considering the whole picture of your background and potential. If you’re on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway.
GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team’s diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination—we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By submitting an application, you acknowledge that you have read and consent to GiveWell’s Privacy Statement for Applicants. By completing an application exercise, you acknowledge and assent to GiveWell’s Work Trial Policy.
Ready to apply?
Apply to GiveWell
GiveWell is a research organization that identifies and funds cost-effective giving opportunities, focusing on global health and well-being. Our work is funded by tens of thousands of donors who rely on our research to inform their giving. We’ve grown from directing $1.5 million in 2010 to directing more than $400 million in 2025.
We’re hiring a Salesforce Administrator to support internal users, continuously improve user experience and data quality, and ensure data reliability and consistency across our Salesforce instance. The Salesforce Administrator will fully own the support, maintenance, and roadmap of core products leveraging Salesforce NPSP, and provide front-line support for our custom Salesforce app.
Why we’re hiring this role right now: GiveWell's fundraising and grants management work depends heavily on Salesforce to operate effectively and scale our impact. Our Technology team currently has only one Salesforce Administrator, and the volume of day-to-day support requests has left little room for proactive improvements such as reducing technical debt, improving data quality, or building new features that would meaningfully benefit our growing organization. As GiveWell grows and our use of Salesforce expands, particularly in grants management, we expect demand to outpace what a single administrator can sustainably support. We're looking for someone who can share the support load, bring additional depth to the team, and help us continuously improve the systems that underpin our life-saving work.
As our Salesforce Administrator, you’ll support:
Specific duties will include:
Salesforce Support
Database maintenance
The strongest candidates will have one to three years of professional experience as a dedicated Salesforce Administrator along with some prior professional experience in customer-facing roles. In addition to relevant experience with the responsibilities listed above, we’ll be looking for someone with:
We also think these qualities will help you do well in the role and at GiveWell:
What does success look like in this role?
The primary responsibilities of this role are to deliver exceptional support to our internal users, enhance user enablement, and maintain high data quality within Salesforce. Success in this role will be evaluated based on these key areas.
What is the structure of the team I’d be joining?
You will report directly to our Head of Tech. You’ll be joining a team with two other Salesforce professionals, one who provides support and the other who leads building solutions. You will collaborate to provide support alongside our existing support teammate. Naturally, your work will intersect with that of your colleagues, so coordination and communication will be key.
Do I need certifications to apply?
For this role, we value experience over certifications. If you are a Salesforce Certified Administrator, you could be a good fit with the right applicable experience, but we don’t require this certification for the role.
Would I be responsible for gift processing?
We know that at some organizations Salesforce Administrators are responsible for processing gifts of donations. At GiveWell, we have a dedicated gift processing team who you will work with and support, but this role won’t be directly responsible for those tasks.
What are some of the reasons I might not like this role?
The majority of the needed work in Salesforce will focus on support, training, and data quality. If you are looking for a role where building Salesforce apps is the majority of what you do day-to-day, this role may not be the best fit.
What is the hiring process like?
The steps in the hiring process are described below. Please note that we could choose not to move forward at any stage after application review. We plan to devote significant staff effort to reviewing applications, and we’ll respond to everyone who applies.
GiveWell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free. Our giving funds enable donors to contribute to the most impactful and cost-effective programs our researchers identify.
Since 2007, we’ve directed over $2.6 billion to cost-effective programs and interventions. In the last two years, we’ve made more than $500 million in grants. GiveWell is one of the world’s largest private funders of global development efforts, and we estimate that the funding we’ve directed will save more than 340,000 lives.
GiveWell is most well-known for recommending a small number of Top Charities, which currently support seasonal malaria chemoprevention, antimalarial nets, vaccine incentivization, and vitamin A supplementation. However, most of our research capacity is devoted to finding cost-effective opportunities outside of those programs.
GiveWell grants have:
We never take for granted that GiveWell’s work is good for the world. We make our reasoning public and transparent so others can challenge it (sometimes we even pay people to point out our errors). We go to unusual lengths to check our assumptions and assess our impact, including funding research and external analysis to address our uncertainties and insisting that our grantees conduct rigorous monitoring and evaluation. We change our minds when the evidence demands it.
We don’t want to miss candidates that could do great things at GiveWell. Practically, that means a GiveWell staff member reviews every application carefully, considering the whole picture of your background and potential. If you’re on the fence about applying because you meet some but not 100% of our preferred qualifications (some studies suggest this hesitation is especially common for women and people of color), we encourage you to apply anyway.
GiveWell is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer by choice. At minimum, this means that we comply with all federal, state, and local EEO and employment laws. Beyond the requirements of those laws, we value our team’s diversity in all respects, and we desire to maintain a work environment free of harassment or discrimination—we want our team members to thrive at GiveWell. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, contact us at careers@givewell.org. We will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By submitting an application, you acknowledge that you have read and consent to GiveWell’s Privacy Statement for Applicants. By completing an application exercise, you acknowledge and assent to GiveWell’s Work Trial Policy.
Ready to apply?
Apply to GiveWell
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