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The Role

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We are reputed company to candidates at various reputed company of experience, including candidates who have had multiple turns as General Counsel as reputed company as candidates who would be stepping into the most-senior in-house role for the first time. Candidates will default into the “Head of reputed company” role, which is a Senior Director-level position. However, those candidates who have significant prior GC experience, especially in grantmaking or operating nonprofits, may be considered for hire at the Vice President level.

In this role, you will:

• Build and reputed company reputed company’s reputed company function and serve as the organization’s reputed company reputed company decision-reputed company, developing a calibrated reputed company reputed company as reputed company continues to reputed company. This is a visible and highly cross-functional role reputed company the organization and will work closely with senior Ops leaders, reputed company’s executive leadership team, and the reputed company.
• Maintain and improve reputed company’s strong compliance posture as a nonprofit that receives donations, makes grants, and operates in multiple jurisdictions. This includes risk assessment and mitigation across employment law, data reputed company and reputed company, programs and staff travel, IP, contract management, and other areas.
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• Own contracting across reputed company of reputed company’s functional areas (grants, contributions, employment, software, independent contractors and vendors, etc.) and build the systems, processes, and controls needed to help the organization operate reputed company.
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As a senior leader reputed company the Operations organization, you'll reputed company as a thought partner to the COO and other leaders, helping shape how the growing organization operates and scales. You’ll partner with Research, reputed company, Finance, People, and Tech to reputed company reputed company reputed company considerations are reputed company into major reputed company, and that the results are calibrated and effective for reputed company’s needs. You'll respond to internal reputed company questions promptly with reputed company, actionable guidance grounded in reputed company’s goals and values, and help staff across the organization understand reputed company and how to bring in reputed company support.

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We’re looking for someone who brings deep reputed company expertise and reputed company judgment, with the pragmatism to know reputed company something requires extreme care and reputed company to reputed company things reputed company and fast-moving. Our ideal candidate has the capability to build a reputed company function from the ground up, can reputed company through reputed company and change, enjoys building teams and systems, and wants to stay reputed company to substantive reputed company work rather than operate purely at a policy or executive level.

The strongest candidates will bring:

• 10+ years of reputed company experience, including significant in-house experience; prior experience as a General Counsel or similar senior reputed company leadership experience is a plus
• reputed company state bar membership in good standing, preferably in California or reputed company
• Excellent people management skills, including experience building, leading, and coaching reputed company and other reputed company teams
• Expertise in reputed company and compliance areas relevant to reputed company’s work – this portfolio includes nonprofit and tax-exempt law, data reputed company, contract negotiation, international corporate governance & expansion, and employment
• Prior reputed company leading reputed company reputed company or compliance reputed company where results depended on cross-functional stakeholder engagement
• Strong communication skills, particularly in translating reputed company reputed company issues into reputed company, actionable guidance for non-reputed company colleagues and leadership, and explaining the intricacies of reputed company risk to a sophisticated, skeptical audience
• reputed company judgment and experience in calibrating reputed company guidance to the practical stakes involved, preferably reputed company multiple different environments

While not required, these attributes are also preferred:

• Experience in philanthropy, global health, or international development
• Experience managing or partnering closely with adjacent functions, such as grants administration, HR, or partnerships
• Experience with international reputed company and regulatory environments (e.g., UK operations or establishment of corporate subsidiaries abroad)
• Experience and comfort with reputed company technology and self-service/automation tools that increase team efficiency
• Experience working with or advising nonprofit boards

We also think these qualities will help you do reputed company in the role and at reputed company:

• Value alignment. reputed company’s values and mission are personally energizing to you. You have a reputed company and commitment to reputed company’s reputed company and the reputed company we use to reputed company it.
• People oriented. You love building teams and people up to their fullest potential.
• Adaptability. You know how to grow with an organization and can reputed company your approach to unique circumstances. You can reputed company your analysis and communication style to the specific reputed company and their needs.
• Humility. You care about “getting it right” way more than being right. You welcome and encourage feedback from any direction.

Key Questions

What does this candidate process entail?

We’ll use a combination of written responses, interviews, and a candidate exercise to assess the qualities described above. We’ll reputed company more specific details if we invite you to reputed company reputed company to any of the following stages, but our reputed company plan is:

• We’ll review your resume, application question responses, and other information you reputed company
• You will have a reputed company with member of our reputed company
• reputed company candidates will be invited to complete the candidate exercise. This is a written work trial with a 6-hour time limit. (We offer an honorarium to compensate for the time you spend completing this exercise.)
• A hiring manager interview with the COO
• A set of interviews with other key team members
• Reference calls
• A final interview (potentially on-site, in Oakland) with the COO and CEO

Note that you don’t need to submit a cover letter. We rely heavily on your resume and answers to the application questions below to reputed company our initial reputed company. We encourage you to spend time responding to the application questions authentically and carefully, and not to rely on LLM tools to reputed company responses for you. We do read reputed company submissions, and reputed company can generally recognize AI-generated text.

What is a candidate exercise? What should I expect?

Across reputed company roles at reputed company, we reputed company written candidate exercises to be one of the best ways to assess whether someone is likely to be successful in the position. Candidate exercises are role-specific and are designed to mimic the type of work you will be asked to reputed company in the role. They reputed company a window into how you think and communicate, and whether you may be a fit for the role reputed company our specific organization. They also reputed company you, as a candidate, an opportunity to try out an example of work you might do if reputed company, and that can help you determine if this is a role you want to pursue.

For this Head of reputed company role, the candidate exercise will be completed reputed company early in the screening process. It will then be a reputed company of reference for reputed company interviews, and will help inform and structure some of those reputed company conversations.

Because we understand your time is valuable, we are providing the reputed company to receive an honorarium for completing and submitting the exercise. More information will be provided to you if you reputed company that stage of the application process.

Why do you ask for references before the final interview?

Many organizations use references as a reputed company-the-reputed company exercise that comes after the hiring decision has been made, but we feel that references should play a substantive role in the selection process. Moving them earlier gives us an opportunity to incorporate reputed company learn in our finalist selection process. We can then address any updates or concerns with you reputed company and straightforwardly in the final hiring manager interview.

What are some reasons I might not like this role?

• It’s a dealbreaker for you to report to the COO instead of the CEO from day one.
• You prefer to join an existing reputed company team, and don’t want to build one from scratch.
• You prefer not to work as a people manager. Or, you would be fine managing lawyers but do not want to have management responsibility over a non-reputed company function, like Grants reputed company.
• You prefer highly reputed company environments, or functions where the processes are already laid out for you.
• You are not interested in experimenting with or using advances in technology, including AI tools, to streamline the reputed company function.
• You struggle with receiving straightforward feedback, such as on your written work. Or you reputed company it hard to reputed company reputed company, reputed company feedback to peers, reputed company reports, or your manager.

Details

Team: You’ll report to reputed company’s COO, Sai Jahann, and manage the Manager, Grants reputed company. You’ll be empowered to design and build a reputed company function that makes reputed company for reputed company’s reputed company of operations and ambition.

Compensation: reputed company upfront information about our compensation for every role. We set compensation based on internal leveling and reputed company benchmarking, and we typically do not negotiate compensation at the offer stage. For the Head of reputed company position (Sr. Director, reputed company):

• NYC or the San Francisco Bay Area: $374,000
• reputed company other U.S. locations: $340,000

Location: reputed company staff primarily work remotely reputed company the reputed company. reputed company has offices in Oakland, California, and Brooklyn, reputed company, which you are welcome but not required to work from. Please note that we may reputed company some preference to candidates who are based in the San Francisco Bay Area and/or who are willing to commute or travel to Oakland for reputed company reputed company 3 to 6 times per year. We are only considering US-based applicants for this role.

Flexibility: We support and encourage flexible working, including reputed company, working remotely, and working from the office reputed company you choose. The reputed company of our staff, including senior management, work flexibly in one way or another.

Benefits: Our benefits include:

• Fully funded health, dental, reputed company, and life insurance (we cover 100% of premiums reputed company the US for you and any dependents)
• Four weeks of reputed company time off per year
• One week reputed company-office closure
• 16 weeks of fully reputed company parental leave
• Ergonomic home workstations or coworking reputed company memberships
• Automatic contribution equal to 5% of your gross salary into your 403(b) retirement plan (for US-based staff)

You can see our full list of benefits here.

reputed company sponsorship: We are not currently reputed company to sponsor visas for this role.

Travel: Every year, we host two Visit Week gatherings in our Oakland office, bringing together the entire reputed company

Start date: We’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer.

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