Head of Digital Product
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.
About CEA
The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world's most pressing problems. We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks.
Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good – and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people who are motivated by EA principles to take significant action to address pressing problems, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work.
We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Our headcount grew from 42 to 66 core staff. Program participation (e.g., events, courses, groups) grew by 20-25% year over year. We merged with EA Funds and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising: our first Fund staffed with full-time employees (EA Animal Welfare Fund) raised almost as much as the previous three years combined.
In 2026, we’re maintaining ambitious momentum while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards.
About the Digital Product Team
Digital products – currently including the EA Forum, Intro Program, Career Bootcamp, EA Newsletter, and Opportunities Board – represent one of CEA's highest-leverage opportunities to accelerate EA community growth.
In 2025, our digital products helped thousands of people move closer to high-impact careers and donations, with over 60,000 subscribers to the EA Newsletter, ~700,000 annual visitors to the EA Forum, and thousands more participating in online courses and events. These products directly feed into the thousands of people working full-time on high-impact roles.
Digital offerings can scale dramatically with relatively few bottlenecks, making them uniquely essential to achieving our ambitious growth goals for the EA community.
CEA is exploring what it would take to 2-10x the size of the EA community over the next several years, and our best bet is that this will require us to significantly increase the number of people accessing our digital products while dramatically improving conversion rates through the engagement funnel. We need to do all of this while maintaining quality. The team currently working on these products is a small group of experienced professionals who are well organized, efficient, and excellent at shipping products quickly. But the team and the products they create have yet to operate with the unified strategy they need to reach their growth potential. We think with strong strategic leadership, the team can achieve much, much more.
In 2026 we will be building and leading a new Digital Products team to make these offerings great and scale their impact.
About the role
We're hiring a Head of Digital Product to build and lead the team that will create this scalable digital ecosystem. This is one of the most crucial leadership hires for EA growth in the coming years.
You'll own the digital product strategy, defining how products work together, setting the vision for the portfolio, and making the hard calls about what to scale and what to stop as we experiment. You'll take products with strong potential and transform them into exceptional, sought-after experiences by driving success metrics, building systems for quality at scale, and driving continuous improvement through data and user feedback. And you'll decide when to add new products to the suite, what they should be, and who should build them.
You'll start by leading our current Online Team, which includes the EA Forum, Opportunities Board, and the EA Newsletter, plus engineering and design capacity. As we finalize the structure of our Digital Products function, you'll likely absorb our Courses team and hire additional Product Managers – but we want your input on the right org design. We're explicitly hiring someone to help us figure out what this team should look like, not someone who needs it pre-defined. You'll coach people into strong product roles and build a high-performing product culture.
You'll report to the Director of Community Growth and partner closely with our Director of Strategy, our Head of Marketing and Communications, and other CEA leadership to ensure digital products drive meaningful community growth. Overall, you will be a co-leader in the overall growth of the EA ecosystem.
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 and 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
What we’re looking for
Ultimately, we're looking for someone who can make great decisions, lead decisively, create products users love, and drive growth of the EA community.
You might be a great fit for this role if you have:
Strong product intuition: You know what great looks like and can figure out when product-market fit weakens
Strategic thinking: You are experienced withsetting 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
Particularly strong candidates may also have:
Experience scaling digital products with a focus on quality and fast growth
Background with educational programs, community-building products, or content platforms
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.
UK: total compensation package of £94,711, comprising a base salary of £86,101, 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 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 4 trips annually to attend team retreats and other events, including several international trips.
We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and encourage individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply. We especially encourage applications from self-identified women and people of colour who are excited about contributing to our mission. The Centre for Effective Altruism is an equal opportunity employer. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@centreforeffectivealtruism.org.
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Evaluation plan
We expect the application process to include the following steps, subject to changes:
Application
Test task 1
Short interview
Test task 2
Final interviews (3-4, non-sequential)
Reference checks
1-2 day work trial