Director of Community Growth

About this role

Please note that we may review applications for this role on a rolling basis and we encourage you to apply early.

We're hiring a Director of Community Growth (or, for exceptionally qualified candidates, a Chief Community Growth Officer) to lead talent growth for the whole EA ecosystem by scaling four of CEA's flagship programs (Events, Groups, Online, and Courses) into their next era. This is one of the most important roles for EA’s future in the coming years – shaping the EA community and building the next generation of high-impact talent. Reporting to the CEO, you'll join CEA's senior leadership team and collaborate with teams across the organisation to help shape the future of CEA. We are open to hiring at the Director or Chief level.

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 risks from transformative AI.

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 https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NKrpEdg7wAgcoHNRG/cea-is-growing-again-25-more-people-engaged-with-our-1 by 20-25% year over year. We merged https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BLvTcMMEQGFYsh6Jw/ea-funds-and-cea-are-merging with EA Funds https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/ and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising.

In 2026, we’re maintaining ambitious momentum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Dy4iGHbAkKAQ4t2Dw/building-sustainable-momentum-progress-report-on-cea-s-2025 while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards. We’re in the midst of the best fundraising year in CEA’s history (currently on track to raise $100M+) and are looking for the right talent to help us take advantage of the many opportunities in front of us.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We're hiring a senior leader to own and grow one of CEA's highest-leverage engines for growth: Events, Groups, Online, and Courses, which will soon be united as one Community Growth Team.

This role represents an opportunity to be a transformative leader at an inflection point for both CEA and the wider EA ecosystem:

- For CEA: We’re in the midst of our best fundraising year ever, building off a year of accelerating growth. We reversed a slightly negative growth trend into 20–25% year-over-year growth across our programs in this portfolio in 2025, and we're now scaling from that momentum. Our headcount has approximately doubled over the past two years, and we’re looking to grow even faster. We’re merging our historical programs into one united Community Growth Team to enable faster and better coordination. You’ll have the opportunity to be a builder leading the way on our updated community growth strategy and team.

- For the EA community: There’s a new wave of philanthropy leading to a wide variety of new impactful opportunities across the EA community. These opportunities are increasingly bottlenecked by having enough highly talented people to take them on. Ecosystem-wide data has shown CEA to be one of the organizations most credited with moving people into high-impact roles. You’ll have the opportunity to build on our existing success to enable the ecosystem to take advantage of a transformative opportunity.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Events, Groups, Online, and Courses teams are the core of CEA's historical work. Together, they carry our talent growth pillar and the pipeline through which people move from early interest in effective altruism into deeper engagement and high-impact work.

- The Events Team organizes EA Global https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-global, our flagship conference series: three conferences a year across San Francisco, London, and New York, drawing more than 3,000 attendees. It also runs the community-organised EAGx conferences and EA Summits (10 EAGx events and at least 23 Summits across more than 26 countries in 2026).

- The Groups Team empowers and stewards the global network of EA groups, equipping https://www.effectivealtruism.org/groups-mentorship-and-funding/ community builders with the direct support, infrastructure, grants, and mentorship they need to help their groups flourish. Over a period of many years, these groups have been repeatedly cited as one of the most cited pathways into high-impact work: when Coefficient Giving ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iJNFfmcmbMMx-xw19Wnlin9ZXWQz1PJtcoS1GAGN8K8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kn4usy8zz1jkformerly Open Philanthropy) surveyed https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iJNFfmcmbMMx-xw19Wnlin9ZXWQz1PJtcoS1GAGN8K8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kn4usy8zz1jk 217 people likely to have high-impact careers, respondents cited EA groups as an important factor more often than books, podcasts, or conferences, and in Rethink Priorities' 2024 EA Survey https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/r8XoHhKKzmQgxm2Lf/ea-survey-2024-how-people-get-involved-in-ea, almost a third of community members named an EA group as important to getting involved.

- The Online Team builds CEA's digital products: the EA Forum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/, the EA Newsletter https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-newsletter-archives, and the Opportunities Board https://ww

Similar jobs

• Director of Growth — Codepath · Remote
• Director of Growth — Bluefishai · New York, Hybrid
• Director of Growth — Middesk · New York
• Director of Growth Solutions — Thetradedesk · Chicago; Los Angeles; New York
• Director of Growth Marketing — Vts · New York, New York, United States
• Director of Growth Marketing — Teachstone · Remote
• Director of Growth Marketing — Remitly · Seattle, Washington United States
• Director, Growth & Engagement — Acog · Washington, DC