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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Open Philanthropy is hiring more people than ever this year, published by Anya Hunt on April 8, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. At Open Philanthropy, our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We gave away over $400 million in 2021. We aim to double that number this year, and triple it by 2025. As a result, we hope to grow our staff to roughly 80 people this year, and to keep growing at a rapid pace for years to come. That means we’re hiring over 30 people this year, and probably well over 100 in the next four years. (It took us nearly 7 years to get to our current size, so this is a major shift for us!) With this post, we want to answer some common questions about working at Open Phil, and to make the following points: If you’ve ever wanted to work for Open Phil, you’ll have more chances to apply this year than ever before. If you know someone else who may be a good fit, you should refer them to us (and maybe send them this post). If you refer someone, and we hire them, we’ll pay you $5000. You can see our open positions here, and make a referral here. What growth means for Open Phil We are the largest funder in several cause areas, but we still have ample room to grow. A few examples of ways we’ve worked towards increasing our giving over the last year: We added three new focus areas — South Asian air quality, global aid advocacy, and EA movement building (focused on global health and wellbeing). We hired new program staff to grow many existing areas, including farm animal welfare, biosecurity, global health R&D, and longtermist EA movement building. We also hired several new staff who focus on cause prioritization, to help us figure out how to expand to new areas. We launched a $150 million regranting challenge to support highly effective grantmakers who are doing better work than we could in their respective specialties. Our program officer for biosecurity published a list of specific biosecurity projects on which we’d like to see people coordinate. Note that many of these items represent ways to scale our giving in entirely new categories. By 2025, we’ll likely be working on things we haven’t even imagined yet. (We’re hoping to hire now partly so that our new staff can help us figure out what those things should be.) Open roles Right now, we have several open roles in Operations and Farm Animal Welfare: A new Director of Operations to help us scale our operations and ensure we’re able to execute on our most important goals. Three new roles to help our Farm Animal Welfare program expand its giving, focused on research & modeling, generalist grantmaking, and science. Recruiters to help us hit these growth targets! If none of these excite you, we’ll be posting lots of additional roles over the course of the year. Many of those will probably end up on the Forum — you can subscribe to the “Open Philanthropy” tag to see those. You can always apply, and you can pitch us on roles that don’t exist yet Needs often emerge before we have time to write job descriptions and run a search to fill them. If you don’t currently see your ideal job open, we’d encourage you to fill out our general application (it’s quick!) and let us know what you’d like to do. We are currently reading these ~weekly and will reach out if we’d like to talk. What we’re looking for We can’t generalize too much here — we try to make our job descriptions very specific. But at a high level, we’re currently interested in: People who have experience in management. Our need for managers is a major bottleneck to scaling up our work. If this is a strength of yours (especially for managing large operations functions — we’re currently hiring for a Director of Operations and a manager for our business operations team ops), we strongly recommend you apply. People who a...