[Hiring] Head of Digital Product @Centre for Effective Altruism

Role Description

We’re hiring a Head of Digital Product to guide the team owning and delivering the EA Forum, Intro Program, Career Bootcamp, EA Newsletter, and Opportunities Board. This is a leadership position reporting to Jessica McCurdy, Director of Community Growth, and collaborating closely with our Director of Strategy, our Head of Marketing and Communications, and other CEA leadership to ensure digital products drive meaningful community growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Product strategy and portfolio management
• Doing what it takes to scale the portfolio’s impact month over month and year on year
• Setting a vision for how our digital products work together to create coherent user journeys and pathways into EA and towards positive impact
• Figuring out where to invest, iterate, or consolidate across our portfolio of digital products based on impact
• Creating feedback loops by gathering user feedback and using data to drive decisions for user satisfaction and growth
• Managing the digital products budget and making resource allocation decisions across the portfolio
• Being in the weeds enough in our digital products to guide and coach product managers
• Depending on the candidate, the role may involve more hands-on product work, directly managing 1-2 products

• Team management
• Hiring, managing, developing, and coaching a team including Product Leads, a Senior Product Designer, a Senior Software Engineer and other Product Leads as they are brought onto the team
• Building team product culture and infrastructure for excellence at scale

• Stakeholder management
• Coordinating with internal teams (Marketing, Groups, Strategy) and external EA stakeholders
• Navigating stakeholder relationships on portfolio decisions
• Representing digital product strategy to leadership and building organizational alignment

Qualifications

• Strong product intuition: You know what great looks like and can figure out when product-market fit weakens
• Strategic thinking: You are experienced with setting strategic direction across multiple products and making tough prioritization calls based on impact
• Management experience: You are skilled at hiring and developing staff and building product management functions. You are able to build trust and alignment with technical, high-autonomy teams
• Impact focus: You are laser-focused on achieving exceptional levels of positive social impact through your work and the product, and have a strong understanding and appreciation for effective altruism principles
• Comfort with ambiguity and systematization: You are comfortable formalizing informal functions and operating in ambiguous environments
• Stakeholder management skills: You are excellent at stakeholder management and navigating complex organizational dynamics

Requirements

• Experience scaling digital products with a focus on quality and fast growth
• Background with educational programs, community-building products, or content platforms

Benefits

• Private insurance
• Flexible work hours
• $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance
• $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance
• Extended parental leave
• Ergonomic equipment
• 25 days of paid vacation
• This role will involve travel, with likely 4 trips annually to attend team retreats and other events, including several international trips

Other Information

• This is a full-time, remote position
• We prefer applicants who are able to work in time zones between US Pacific Time and CET
• We have an office in Oxford, UK, that you would have access to
• Start date: May 2026 or sooner
• Reports to: Jessica McCurdy, Director of Community Growth
• Compensation US: total compensation package of $157,435, comprising a base salary of $143,123, and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution
• Compensation UK: total compensation package of £94,711, comprising a base salary of £86,101, and a 10% pension contribution
• For candidates outside the US and UK, we base compensation on our UK salary structure and adjust for the cost of employment and fixed local benefit costs to create an equivalent package