centreforeffectivealtruism - Product Lead, Opportunities Board

Remote - Global$110k - $110k1w ago

Remote Staff WW Tech Lead Team Lead Reporting Later SEO

Requirements

• You might be a great fit for this role if you have: • A product-development mindset: You understand what makes products compelling, and can design experiments with clear success criteria and make hard decisions based on data (qualitative and quantitative) • Impact focus: You are laser-focused on achieving exceptional levels of positive social impact through your work and the product, and strongly align with effective altruism principles • Strategic thinking skills: You have a track record of setting a clear vision, developing actionable strategies, and adapting plans based on new insights and evidence • Marketing instinct: You can attract and grow an audience and run acquisition experiments across channels such as paid ads, SEO and answer engine optimisation, email, and social • Comfort with delegating and managing: You can brief and coordinate software engineers, plus contractors like marketers or virtual assistants, to get work done • Execution velocity: You ship things. You don’t just theorise about new ideas, you build and test them • Scout mindset & reasoning transparency: You actively seek out evidence that challenges your assumptions, change your mind when warranted, and explain your reasoning openly • Familiarity with the impact-focused talent landscape: You understand the impact-focused career and talent landscape well enough to curate the board sensibly and to hold your own in conversations with people working in unusually impactful cause areas • (Bonus) Technical execution: You’re comfortable building and shipping changes to a live web product, working hands-on in the codebase with (or without) the help of AI coding tools • (Bonus) Experience with job boards, marketplaces, or other two-sided products, or with growth, SEO, and scaling digital products • (Bonus) Appetite for exploring new directions: You’re excited to explore and build bigger bets, like a logged-in experience or an AI career advisor, and comfortable with the ambiguity of zero-to-one work, not only optimising what already exists • We don't expect one person to be excellent at all of these. Strong candidates will be excellent at several and willing to grow into the rest, and you'll be able to lean on collaborators and contractors to cover areas you're less comfortable with, for example bringing in marketing or engineering support where useful. • 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: September 2026 or sooner • Reports to: Jamie Harris, Courses Project Lead

Responsibilities

• You'll report at first to Jamie Harris, our Courses Project Lead who has been advising on the initial testing and development of the board, potentially shifting to a new manager once we hire a Head of Digital Product later in the year. • PRODUCT DELIVERY AND IMPROVEMENT • Iterate the board’s framing, UX, and features to better serve target users and increase the rate at which they find, apply to, and land high-impact opportunities • Ship improvements to the board, either working hands-on in the codebase or delegating to software engineers: filters, search, SEO and AEO pages, tracking • Improve the sourcing and curation of high-impact opportunities, likely delegating the day-to-day work to a virtual assistant or contractor • Run experiments with clear success criteria across every stage of the theory of change, from growing traffic to increasing the rate at which users land high-impact roles • Build the tracking and evaluation needed to understand whether, how, and for whom the board is working, including placement data, conversion, and retention • GROWTH AND MARKETING • Develop and test a marketing plan to grow traffic to the board reliably and repeatedly, likely in collaboration with contractors • Find the channels that work, and double down on the most cost-effective and repeatable ones • Prioritise and optimise targets across traffic, engagement, and placements • PRODUCT STRATEGY • Refine the target audience, the user needs you’re addressing, and the board’s curation and feature set • Continue to test and (in)validate the open strategic questions: whether the board leads to placements, and whether traffic can be grown enough for the board to be cost-effective at scale • Explore the larger opportunity in this space and decide which bigger bets to pursue, for example a logged-in experience (CV upload, profiles, and matching), an AI career advisor, or evolving the board into a broader careers product

Benefits

• US: total compensation package of $109,867, comprising a base salary of $99,879, and a 10% unconditional 401k contribution. • UK: total compensation package of £66,095 , comprising a base salary of £60,087 , and a 10% pension contribution. • Other locations: 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 • Benefits in the US/UK include private health insurance, flexible work hours, a $6,000 / £5,000 annual professional development allowance, a $6,000 / £5,000 mental health support allowance, extended parental leave, ergonomic equipment, 25 days of paid vacation, and more. • This role will involve travel. There are likely 2-4 trips annually, including several international trips to attend team retreats and events worldwide.