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Chief Technology Officer

4 weeks, 2 days ago
United States, United Kingdom, Kenya
Full-time
Executive
CTO (Chief Technology Officer)
Software Development
Agile Cybersecurity Machine Learning
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GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization that sends money directly to people in poverty, empowering them to choose how to improve their lives.

Capital Markets
51-250
Founded 2009
$1M raised
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Description

  • Define the company’s technology vision, architecture, target stack, and build-vs-buy strategy.
  • Turn program and product strategy into a sequenced portfolio of technical investments.
  • Lead and balance six workstreams, including new cash delivery systems, legacy platform stabilization and migration, donor-facing products, emergency cash systems, enterprise technology, and internal tooling/cybersecurity.
  • Build and grow the technology organization, including engineering, product, data, security, infrastructure, and enterprise systems.
  • Recruit, develop, and retain technical talent and engineering leaders.
  • Set accountability, decision rights, and career paths for a high-performing team.
  • Own technical direction and quality standards for integrations, data, security, reliability, and technical debt.
  • Serve as an executive team member and partner with the CEO, VP Product, finance, risk, data, and country leaders.
  • Help non-technical stakeholders understand technical constraints, costs, priorities, and tradeoffs.
  • Travel approximately 4–6 times per year, including to GiveDirectly countries of operation.

Requirements

  • Senior leadership experience hiring, managing, developing, and retaining engineers and engineering leaders.
  • Proven ability to design team processes that deliver software with quality and speed.
  • Strong technical judgment on architecture, build-vs-buy decisions, and technical direction.
  • Ability to investigate problems directly when needed, without needing to be the primary implementer.
  • Strong business judgment and decisiveness under ambiguity.
  • Experience navigating tradeoffs across speed, reliability, security, flexibility, cost, technical quality, and user impact.
  • A clear point of view on how AI changes engineering productivity and organizational capability.
  • Experience moving a team from AI experimentation to measured real-world use.
  • Ability to set tools, culture, goals, and guardrails for an AI-first engineering environment.
  • Alignment with GiveDirectly’s values and leadership expectations.
  • Experience in operationally complex or regulated domains such as fintech, payments, humanitarian response, or global development (preferred).
  • Experience with financial controls, fraud risk, identity, or sensitive recipient data (preferred).
  • Experience operating across multiple countries, especially lower-income or infrastructure-constrained contexts (preferred).
  • Experience leading both product engineering and enterprise technology (preferred).
  • Ability to work remotely across US Eastern Time and East African Time.
  • Preference for candidates based in New York, London, or Nairobi.

Benefits

  • Total compensation of $366,000–$518,000 in the US, £225,000–£317,000 in the UK, or $333,000–$467,000 in Kenya.
  • Base salary plus performance-based bonus.
  • Annual benefits stipend.
  • Remote work arrangement.
  • No-negotiation pay policy for comparable roles.
  • Reasonable accommodations during the application and interview process.
  • Referral bonus of $3,000 for Senior Manager+ referrals and $500 for Manager referrals.

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