Director, Mothers & Babies
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This role is fully remote but must overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hours. This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, UK or Kenya, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process., overlap with an East Africa timezone by at least 3 hoursFull-TimeDirector
SalaryAt least 128,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional work experience
- Required Skills
- Data AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipProduct DevelopmentCommunication SkillsNegotiation
Requirements
- Exceptional alignment to GD values, passion for our mission, and commitment to recipient dignity and empowerment
- 8+ years of professional work experience in similar role or function (product, programs, business development, partnerships)
- Proven leadership ability and management experience in building high performing teams
- Experience working with a distributed team in a multicultural environment
- Interest in working as part of a growing company, with awareness about the opportunities and challenges that come with a highly adaptive environment
- Strong, succinct communications: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders
- Analytical problem solver: Looks at problems w/ analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision and multi-year strategy, translating it into annual and quarterly goals and clear “go/no-go” decision points.
- Define and maintain the core “hypotheses” that ground GiveDirectly’s investment in this product (impact/value, feasibility/delivery, and growth/fundability), including what evidence would change our confidence.
- Build a crisp roadmap that separates (a) what must be proven, (b) what must be built, and (c) what must be scaled—then ruthlessly prioritize to match the year’s goal.
- Lead program design choices (e.g., transfer size, timing/cadence, etc), grounded in evidence and operational realities.
- Ensure the program meets a high bar for recipient dignity, safeguarding, consent, and clarity - especially given the sensitivity of pregnancy and newborn outcomes.
- Partner closely with programs teams to identify where reality diverges from our plans, diagnose root causes, and implement adaptations quickly and thoughtfully.
- Identify, evaluate, and manage partners critical to targeting and outcomes (e.g., community health NGOs, health facilities, government health systems, digital maternal health platforms).
- Define the operating model: what GiveDirectly must do vs. what partners can do better (and cheaper), and how responsibilities, incentives, data flows, and accountability work.
- Develop playbooks for recipient targeting/verification, enrollment of pregnant women, payment timing, troubleshooting, and issue escalation—then standardize across countries where appropriate.
- Define the tech needs for delivery and scale (e.g., digital identification/enrollment pathways, system integrations with health registries where feasible, 2-way messaging for consent/verification, automation to reduce delays/failures).
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