<div><strong>Location: </strong><strong><em>This role is fully remote but will directly manage team members spanning East Africa Time to US Pacific Time. You must overlap with East Africa Time by at least 3 hours. As an example, 6PM East Africa Time is 11AM US Eastern time in the summer and 10AM in the winter. In practice, if you are in the Eastern US timezone, that means being regularly available for 8AM meetings and some 7AM ones. We know people have commitments like school drop-offs, so you’re encouraged to set a schedule that works for you—as long as there’s sufficient overlap with the team. </em></strong><em>We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas in the U.S. or U.K. at this time.</em></div><div><br><strong>About this role</strong></div><div>We’re hiring a Director of Engineering to build a best-in-class engineering department in a moment of rapid growth; we’ve more than doubled our engineering team in the last year and are continuing to hire.</div><div>Your initial focus will be on our cash delivery platform: you'll own the technical systems that deliver the next $4B to people in extreme poverty, our goal for the next nine years, with scenarios on the table that would require us to scale much faster. We recently launched a platform rebuild as a greenfield project, and the work ahead is scaling it from initial launch to delivering billions. This role is deliberately sequenced: you'll start close to the ground — directly managing engineers, partnering with our platform product lead on roadmap and delivery, and getting deep in the operational details (on-call, incident response) — because we believe the leader who builds that context firsthand is the one who can design the right organization for the next level of scale.</div><div><br>You will own maintaining and scaling a strong engineering culture through rapid growth: shaping how we hire and structure teams, recruiting and retaining a high talent density team, and building strong operating processes and culture that encourage open debate in search of the best outcomes for recipients rather than attachment to being right or looking good; continuous learning, improvement, and adoption of new tools; deep product ownership in service of impact for recipients; and strong judgment about tradeoffs. You'll set a high technical quality bar, pressure-testing designs and tradeoffs while still giving a very senior team high autonomy.</div><div><br>You’ll shape our multi-year technical strategy: where the platform should be shared across product lines versus split or modular, when to build versus buy versus extend, how to sequence major architectural transitions, and how to balance investment with feature development. You optimize for recipient impact, not the most interesting technical problem. We're not driven by hot new technical trends; we're building the hard tech that matters to recipients — integrations with mobile money rails and delivery in low-connectivity contexts.</div><div><br>You'll represent engineering at the senior leadership level and own the interface between engineering and team members who haven't worked heavily with a product development organization before. That means learning our programs and the realities of our field teams, and working with partner teams to build our development practices, whether building trust that an MVP is a starting point rather than a final answer, or helping teams see why it’s worth taking time out of their urgent delivery goals to give feedback on a demo or try something new.</div><div><br>As GiveDirectly scales, technology is what allows us to reach more people without breaking. Your leadership means getting more cash to the people who need it most.</div><div><br><strong>Reports to: VP of Technology</strong></div><div><strong>Level</strong>: Director</div><div><strong>Travel Requirement: </strong>Must be able to travel ~2-3 times per year to one of our countries of operation for team retreats or field visits</div><div><br><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></div><ul><li>Own the engineering organization for our cash delivery platform: its structure, staffing strategy, and operating model — and redesign these as the team grows, including deciding when and how to build out a management layer (today: 6 engineers on the cash delivery platform, 11 engineers total; additional hires planned this year)</li><li>Own multi-year technical strategy for the platform: defining interfaces and boundaries between domains, determining when to build versus buy versus extend, and how to sequence major architectural transitions — driving the biggest bets to a decision with the Platform Product Lead, VP of Technology, and leadership</li><li>Protect and scale the culture as we grow: open debate, product ownership, continuous improvement, and strong engineering foundations</li><li>Own engineering delivery — the commitments leadership and stakeholders plan against, platform reliability, and the trade-offs between roadmap speed and platform investment — in close partnership with the Platform Product Lead</li><li>Drive operational excellence, including on-call, incident response, code quality, testing, AI, and deployment practices</li><li>Represent engineering at the leadership level: translate technical realities into business decisions and vice versa, and partner with diverse stakeholders to create the enabling environment for product development</li><li>Coach and develop engineers through 1:1s, feedback, career planning, and performance management; hire, onboard, and retain a strong, inclusive team</li><li>Set the technical quality bar: stay close enough to the technical work to weigh in on architecture, review designs, and help the team make sound trade-offs, without becoming the bottleneck</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>What you’ll bring:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values</strong> and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.</li><li>Language Requirement: English</li><li>5+ years managing engineers, including experience leading multiple teams or a larger engineering organization through full delivery cycles</li><li>10+ years of overall industry experience building production software, with a strong backend foundation (databases, cloud services, APIs)</li><li>Demonstrated ability to recruit, coach, develop, and retain engineers, building and retaining a talent-dense and inclusive team during periods of high growth</li><li>Track record of building a strong engineering culture including candid, ego-free debate, deep product ownership, and continuously raising the bar on craft and tooling (including agentic engineering)</li><li>You enable speed through focus and create clarity in ambiguity: cutting through complexity to the strategic kernel and shielding the team from distraction, so a senior team can move fast and autonomously</li><li>Strong technical judgment driven by the mission, not ego: you can pressure-test architecture decisions with very senior engineers, have made consequential calls and lived with the results, and weigh technical and non-technical tradeoffs by recipient impact</li><li>Energized to build product-development fluency in an organization that's relatively new to it: you've successfully partnered with non-technical stakeholders and leaders, and you’re excited by this, rather than daunted by it</li></ul><div><br><strong>Compensation</strong></div><div>At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third party salary aggregator to calculate what we believe to be competitive pay based on role, location, and cost of living. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.&nbsp;</div><div><br>Unless otherwise noted, the benefits stipend may be used to cover benefits or taken as additional taxable income.</div><div><br><strong>United States</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Base Salary:</strong> $200,000</li><li><strong>Bonus at Target Performance:</strong> 15% (~$30,000, with potential for upside. For reference, with the organization's current performance multiplier, this amount would be ~$35,100)</li><li><strong>Estimated Total Compensation at Target:</strong> $230,000+</li><li><strong>Annual Benefits Stipend:</strong> ~$33,427</li></ul><div><br>This role is fully remote, so if you are not based in the US, we will share an estimated salary benchmark for the country you are based in during the hiring process.&nbsp;</div>

Director of Engineering

<div><strong>Summary</strong></div><div><br></div><div>Responsible for planning, organizing, managing, and supporting the areas of business applications and ERP. Maintains the primary student system (Jenzabar CX/Ellucian Banner) and ensures that all systems interoperate to provide seamless access to information and resources.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Essential Duties and Responsibilities</strong></div><div><br></div><div>Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.</div><ol><li>Work with the Associate Vice President of Technology in developing strategic direction and vision for enterprise business software.</li><li>Manages the application lifecycle of ERP/SIS and other related applications such as business analytics and reporting. Assist in evaluating, deploying and managing current and future business software.</li><li>Oversee software development and integration projects related to supporting the business mission.</li><li>Responsible for maintenance, management, security, and administration of student and business systems, which includes Jenzabar CX/Ellucian Banner, Cognos, JICS, StarRez, Canvas LMS, AdAstra and other related systems.</li><li>Create, maintain and manage project schedules, scope, timelines/milestones, and resources.</li><li>Communicate such information to appropriate university stakeholders.</li><li>Oversee security and compliance related to PCI and enterprise information security as it relates to business applications.</li><li>Attend meetings and represent ITS appropriately with internal and external clients as needed.</li><li>Ensure that project deliverables are timely, within budget, seamless, secure, and usable. Organize any training needed for customers.</li><li>Maintain fluency and understanding of ERP/SIS products and connected applications including functionality, capability, security, and best practices.</li><li>Coordinate with vendors and contractors as needed by project scope.</li><li>Interface and communicate with customers as needed and assist in developing a customer-centric and service-oriented culture.</li><li>Participate in planning activities with other areas of ITS.</li><li>Maintain thorough documentation of systems for all applications and processes.</li><li>Stay current with the latest technologies and trends to improve access to information and services.</li></ol><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Supervisory Responsibilities</strong></div><div><br></div><div>Directly supervise employees and student workers. Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization&rsquo;s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving issues.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Other Skills and Abilities</strong></div><div><br></div><div>To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.</div><ul><li>Demonstrated ability and willingness to live and uphold the University's Christ-centered mission and values.</li><li>Experience in managing enterprise business application projects; understanding of IP networks and enterprise applications; knowledge of information security practices and accessibility compliance.</li><li>Ability to work with customers to define project scope and schedules; broadly look at impact and project possible scenarios; simultaneously coordinate and complete multiple projects; maintain a long-term, big-picture view and foresee obstacles, risks, and opportunities.</li><li>Ability to supervise and train employees; work closely with vendors, consultants, and contractors; and work flexible hours.</li><li>Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills with the ability to work effectively with diverse faculty, staff, and student body; communicate effectively both orally and in writing and present information to all levels of the organization.</li><li>Ability to perform thorough research to propose alternatives and options; investigate and analyze information and draw conclusions.</li></ul><div>&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Education and/or Experience</strong></div><div><br></div><div>Bachelor&rsquo;s degree required in the areas of Computer Science, Computer Information System, Management Information Systems or related field; Master&rsquo;s degree preferred. Minimum of five (5) years experience in the Information Technology sector with demonstrated experience in managing enterprise business software projects. Experience with Windows and Macintosh operating systems and applications desired.</div>

Director of Business Applications

<div><strong>The Role</strong></div><div>This role reports to Dan Reed, the Partner, Capital at Praxis. As Director, Community Systems, you will lead a senior strategic role responsible for building and stewarding the systems, data infrastructure, and communications workflows that power Praxis's community at scale. This is not a traditional “operations” role — it is a community architecture role, designed for someone who understands that a healthy ecosystem requires healthy systems.</div><div><br>Praxis cultivates a dense, global network of founders, funders, venture builders, thinkers, and creatives. The Director, Community Systems is responsible for owning the systems and tools that underpin the community’s ability to connect and work on shared projects together, while building the workflows that allow Praxis to be effective and efficient to this end.</div><div><br>The role also owns Praxis’s communications infrastructure, including the systems and tools that ensure the right messages reach the core community at the right time, across relational outreach, personalized invitations, and custom digests. As an organization that is deeply engaged in building, prototyping, and integrating AI-powered solutions, this role will be a key driver of intelligent approaches across community and communications workflows.</div><div><br><strong>The Kind of Person Who Thrives in This Role</strong></div><div><strong>Sees data as relationships</strong></div><div>You understand that data systems are only as good as the human intelligence behind it. You bring genuine curiosity to understanding who is in the community, what they’re working on, and how Praxis can be supportive to their work — and you build systems that make that knowledge accessible and evolving.</div><div><strong>Finds joy in discovering what emerges from complexity</strong></div><div>You get real satisfaction from taking a tangled workflow or a messy database and transforming it into something architecturally beautiful. You can’t help but geek out over an elegant Airtable automation, a precisely segmented communications list, or a perfectly designed introduction framework.</div><div><strong>Thinks in systems, not just tasks</strong></div><div>You naturally see connections between different parts of the organization. When you solve a problem you’re always asking: “should this solution be made repeatable and if so, how?”</div><div><strong>Values being a multiplier</strong></div><div>You understand that your role exists to amplify others’ effectiveness. The best days are when your behind-the-scenes infrastructure allows program teams to seamlessly make a high-impact introduction, send a perfectly timed email, or track a community member from first touchpoint to funded venture.</div><div><strong>Communicates with patience and clarity</strong></div><div>You can explain technical concepts to non-technical people without making them feel foolish. You write clear documentation and enjoy acting as a coach or teacher when rolling out new systems.</div><div><strong>Thinks like a detective</strong></div><div>When something breaks or a community member falls through the cracks, you’re curious rather than frustrated. You enjoy troubleshooting, investigating root causes, and finding elegant solutions that prevent the same gap from appearing twice.</div><div><br><strong>Key Areas of Responsibility</strong></div><div><strong>Community Systems &amp; Data Infrastructure (50%)</strong></div><div><strong>Community Data Architecture &amp; System</strong></div><ul><li>Own and continuously evolve Praxis’s database (Airtable) as the authoritative system of record for community relationships, capturing relationship depth, engagement history, and possible contributions</li><li>Conduct ongoing internal research to identify pain points in community workflows and build project plans for improvements</li><li>Ensure data hygiene across tools and cross-team usability, building toward a shared organizational view of the community</li><li>Identify and oversee technical contractors as needed for system improvements</li></ul><div><br><strong>Engagement Workflow &amp; Community Health</strong></div><ul><li>Design and operate inbound community cultivation workflows — how new members are captured and drawn into formation and activation pathways</li><li>Build and manage engagement cadences that keep the community warm, informed, and connected between major touchpoints</li><li>Develop community health dashboards that give leadership visibility into relationship depth, engagement levels, and ecosystem activity</li><li>Identify and implement AI-driven automation in community workflows; train team members on AI-enabled tools (Claude, Granola, Perplexity)</li></ul><div><br></div><h3><strong>Communications Systems &amp; Infrastructure (25%)</strong></h3><div><strong>Communications Tooling &amp; Infrastructure</strong></div><ul><li>Own and optimize the communications stack — including MixMax and email sequencing tools — enabling consistent, personalized outreach</li><li>Build and maintain segmentation logic and contact management workflows ensuring the right messages reach the right members</li><li>Develop and maintain templates, sequences, and cadences for recurring communications in partnership with initiative leaders</li><li>Monitor integrations between communications tools and the CRM, ensuring outreach activity informs community intelligence</li></ul><div><strong>AI-Powered Communications Workflows</strong></div><ul><li>Identify and implement AI-driven workflows that accelerate communications production — from drafting to personalization to segmentation</li><li>Train team members on AI-enabled tools, reducing administrative friction across program and community teams</li><li>Research and evaluate new communications technologies aligned with organizational budget and mission</li></ul><div><br></div><h3><strong>Project Production &amp; Outcome Facilitation (25%)</strong></h3><div><strong>Connection &amp; Introduction Infrastructure</strong></div><ul><li>Build and operate systems that surface community needs — capital, talent, expertise, design sessions, etc.</li><li>Develop frameworks for how Praxis facilitates high-quality, timely introductions across founders, funders, and builders</li><li>Maintain visibility into active projects and ventures, enabling proactive rather than reactive support</li></ul><div><strong>Outcome Tracking &amp; Ecosystem Reporting</strong></div><ul><li>Build and maintain reporting infrastructure tracking project outcomes, ecosystem activity, and community impact</li><li>Partner with Development Operations on the intersection of community data and fundraising intelligence</li><li>Develop dashboards and reporting rhythms giving leadership a clear picture of ecosystem health and return on community investment</li><li>Serve as systems partner to the Directors of Experiences and Engagement, ensuring event and program data flows into shared community systems</li></ul><div><strong>Critical Near Term Projects</strong></div><ul><li>Immersion in our existing data structures and workflows across all tools and platforms, developing a clear and documented understanding of how information flows through the organization.</li><li>Assess workflows to identify quick-win opportunities for efficiency gains, and translate findings into actionable solutions</li><li>Design and implement improved workflows for how we manage, and deliver communications to our community, including clearer processes, ownership, and tooling.</li></ul><div><strong>Expected Competencies for the Role</strong></div><ul><li>7+ years in technology, operations, or ecosystem development, ideally in a network-centric organization where relationship capital is central to outcomes (philanthropy, venture capital, or impact-oriented ventures)</li><li>Deep expertise designing and maintaining complex databases, including automations, interface design, and data architecture</li><li>Demonstrated experience building communications infrastructure at scale</li><li>Skillfully and comfortably use the Praxis set of digital tools, including Google Suite, Airtable, Slack, Asana, MixMax, Notion, and Dropbox</li><li>Systems thinking mindset with the ability to design workflows that are elegant and resilient</li><li>Experience with building AI-embedded tools from the ground up</li><li>Strong written and verbal communication skills with a service orientation toward internal stakeholders</li><li>Ability to balance multiple priorities across community, communications, and project production</li></ul><div><br><strong>What Success Looks Like</strong></div><div>Success in this role is measured by your ability to be the connective tissue of the Praxis community by reducing friction so dramatically that program teams can focus entirely on mission-critical work while the community feels genuinely known, cared for, and connected. Concretely, you’ll know you’re succeeding when:</div><ul><li>Praxis has a data system that is genuinely trusted as the organizational source of truth for community relationships, with high adoption and clean data across all three initiatives</li><li>Community engagement cadences are running consistently and measurably improving relationship depth and member activation</li><li>The introductions and connections Praxis facilitates are faster, more targeted, and more impactful, with outcomes tracked and visible to leadership</li><li>Communications infrastructure allows program teams to reach the right community members with personalized, timely messages without burdening recipients with communications overload</li><li>AI-powered workflows have demonstrably reduced overhead and increased velocity across community and communications work</li></ul><div><br><strong>Additional Details</strong></div><div><strong>Location:</strong> New York City, NY (Manhattan HQ preferred); remote considered</div><div><strong>Travel:</strong></div><ul><li>15–25 days/year including team meetings and events</li><li>Quarterly team meetings at NYC HQ</li><li>Annual Summit in Napa Valley, CA</li><li>Potentially 1–2 other Praxis events throughout the year</li><li>All travel expenses covered by Praxis</li></ul><div><strong>Reports to:</strong> Partner, Capital</div><div><br><strong>Compensation</strong></div><ul><li>Range: $115,000–$140,000 based on experience and location (HQ-based candidates are paid more).<ul><li>For all Praxis roles, we are open to candidates who are ‘outside of range’. That is to say, growth-minded applicants at an earlier stage of career and comp, or candidates with experience above the highest end of the job description and compensation range, are welcome &amp; encouraged to apply.</li></ul></li><li>Comprehensive benefits including fully paid health insurance for families</li><li>5% matching 401k</li><li>Flexible vacation policy</li></ul><div><br><strong>Cultural Alignment</strong></div><div>Praxis finds its theological identity most clearly stated in the Lausanne Covenant (1974) and the Cape Town Commitment (2010). All Praxis staff and program participants are asked to affirm The Apostles’ Creed as a statement of their own beliefs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate alignment with the above, as well as our mission to advance redemptive entrepreneurship. We’re seeking a leader who combines operational excellence with a spirit of humility and service, contributing to our vision of building an organization that embodies redemptive principles in all aspects of its work and culture, which includes shared rhythms such as daily team prayer and a company-wide weekly Sabbath, as detailed in our Rule of Life for Redemptive Entrepreneurs (rule.praxislabs.org).</div><div>Praxis is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We believe that the work of awakening redemptive imagination is strongest when it draws from the full breadth of God’s people.</div><div><br><strong>About Praxis</strong></div><div>Praxis began in 2011 with a desire to support and equip Christian entrepreneurs and has grown steadily into a 25+ person, NY-centric team advancing the redemptive quests of founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to address the major issues of our time. As a $12M+/year nonprofit with ambitious growth plans, we're expanding our venture-building work globally, organizing around the major issues of our time, and building media and more to activate the redemptive potential of Christians around the world. We see our team as the first carriers of the mission, building an organization that is great to work at, excellent in its craft, and redemptive in its finances as well as its programs.</div>

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