Vice President of Business Development

Silicon Valley Community Foundation occupies a singular position in American philanthropy. Headquartered in Mountain View and founded in 2007, SVCF has grown into the largest community foundation in the world — managing over $18 billion in assets and distributing nearly $2.1 billion in grants in 2025.

The Foundation operates at the intersection of institutional scale and genuine community proximity. Its work is rooted in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, where persistent gaps in housing, economic mobility, and educational access exist in stark contrast to the region's extraordinary wealth concentration. SVCF's response to these disparities is not passive grantmaking — it is active coordination across donors, corporations, government, and community organizations, deploying the full range of philanthropic tools to drive systemic change.

For donors, SVCF functions as a trusted institutional partner with the technical sophistication to match. The Foundation accepts complex assets, structures multi‑generational giving strategies, and deploys capital across donor‑advised funds, supporting organizations, and impact investments. Its CEO, Nicole Taylor, was named to TIME's inaugural TIME
100 Philanthropy list — a recognition that reflects SVCF's influence well beyond the Bay Area.

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In this role, you will serve as SVCF’s lead strategist for new business generation, overseeing the development and execution of a comprehensive growth strategy focused on acquiring new donors, opening new funds, securing institutional partnerships and increasing charitable assets under management. The role combines sophisticated business development, fundraising leadership, relationship management and team leadership to position SVCF as the best‑in‑class philanthropic partner for individuals, families, corporations, foundations and professional advisors.

The Vice President will work in close partnership with the Vice President, Donor Engagement and other organizational leaders to deliver an integrated donor experience and ensure alignment across donor acquisition, onboarding, philanthropic advising, stewardship, retention and long‑term relationship management.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive business development and growth strategy aligned with SVCF’s mission, strategic priorities and long‑term philanthropic goals designed to expand philanthropic partnerships, charitable assets and SVCF’s market presence.
• Identify, cultivate, and secure new relationships with high‑net‑worth individuals, families, corporations, private foundations and institutional partners building new donor and business pipelines to meet/exceed annual revenue goals.
• Spearhead SVCF’s new‑business pipeline and establish business development standards, growth metrics and operational processes that ensure consistency, quality and accountability.
• Expand and strengthen relationships with professional advisors, including wealth managers, attorneys, CPAs, family offices, and financial institutions.
• Build and manage a robust pipeline of prospective donors, funds, and partnerships, ensuring disciplined prospect qualification, cultivation, and conversion. Develop innovative approaches to engaging prospective donors and professional advisors.
• Monitor philanthropic, economic, wealth‑management, and philanthropic‑sector trends to identify opportunities for innovation, growth and market differentiation.
• Collaborate with executive leadership and the Vice President, Complex Philanthropic Advising and others to develop strategies for transformational gifts, complex philanthropic transactions, and major partnership opportunities.

• Lead efforts to increase…