About Us
At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good. Since launching in 2015, we’ve raised over $10 billion for the most impactful social causes. We offer the simplest path to impact for successful entrepreneurs, providing end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a worldwide network of experts.
In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our 2100+ members include the people behind industry-leading companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.
About the Role
Applications are open until December 29, 2025.
Reporting to the CEO, this role is pivotal in partnering across the organisation to design and execute the next phase of Founders Pledge. We are at an inflection point, whereby we have achieved exponential growth, but our ambition exceeds what we can deliver with our current model. We are seeking someone with exceptional strategic and operational expertise to help us unlock scale in our current model, and work with the leadership team to pick the right ‘bets’ to reach our 10 year goals.
There are three key strands strands to the role:
1) 10 year growth strategy
2) Designing and delivering our annual strategy
3) Overseeing operations across the organisation
10 year growth strategy
In 2024, Founders Pledge set an exciting and ambitious 10 year growth target ‘Vision 2035’ that requires us to innovate and adapt to achieve it. In 2025 we explored many avenues to growth and have a short list to explore further. The Strategy and Operations Director will have the expertise to help further evaluate these ideas, add to them, and help us explore this complex space with experiments and tests to narrow the focus and launch successful additional path(s) to growth.
Designing and delivering our annual strategy
Founders Pledge has a mature process for annual planning and ongoing strategy evolution, yet as a scale up, the nature and content of the strategy and plan evolves significantly every year. This role would deliver the annual plan, set OKRs and other metrics, and progress and translate our thinking and decision making to outcomes throughout the year.
Overseeing operations and risk management across the organisation
This role will work with functional leaders to ensure that our strategy translates into joined up projects and initiatives, which stay on track and that key performance indicators are sufficient to help us achieve the scale we are looking to achieve. Founders Pledge mirrors our members in that we take risk and acknowledge that higher risk can unlock higher rewards. Appropriate safeguards need to be in place, and right-sizing is important especially as we explore new avenues to impact. The supporting teams reporting into this role include Impact analytics and Risk and Compliance.
About you:
- You’ll have a proven track record of devising and leading complex, multi-functional strategic initiatives from inception through execution.
- Extensive experience partnering with and influencing C-suite and Senior Leadership (CEO, CFO, VPs) to gain alignment, and drive major decisions.
- Communication Mastery: Exceptional skill in translating complex analysis into clear, compelling, and concise narratives and presentations high proficiency in tools like PowerPoint/Google Slides is a must.
- Structured Problem Solving: Ability to structure ambiguous, ill-defined problems into clear workstreams and manage the project to a successful conclusion.
- Core consulting toolkit including strong analytics.
- Experience in what practical operational delivery looks like in a small, growing organisation and with an understanding of philanthropy and the wider non profit sector, be able to right size approaches to risk management. We are a small team and therefore at even the most senior level of our organisation, team members are expected to dive into the operational as well as the strategic.
- Change Management: Demonstrated success in leading organisational change or transformation efforts related to strategic initiatives.
Why Work With Us?
You can find more about the benefits we offer here, but what makes us truly special is both our mission and our people.
We’re a diverse team, from both charitable and commercial backgrounds, who believe that amazing things can happen when we tackle problems together.
We offer a flat structure and an opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge. We seek people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share our drive to understand and solve complex social challenges.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems requires different perspectives and unique ways of thinking, and we are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work.
If you’re excited about our mission but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.
