Funds Program Manager

About Us

At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good with their charitable giving. Since launching in 2015, our community of over 2,300 members has pledged nearly $13.6B and donated $1.9B+ to the charitable sector in 45+ countries.

We provide end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a global network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our members include founders and leaders behind companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.

We focus on deploying capital where it can achieve the greatest impact, guided by evidence, careful analysis, and long-term thinking.

Salary:
Up to $90,000 DOE

Founders Pledge primarily funds high-impact opportunities through direct donations from our members or through our themed Funds. Growing and effectively managing these Funds is a massive priority for us. They allow us to deploy capital quickly in time-sensitive moments, leverage deep domain expertise, and unlock additional resources through innovative funding mechanisms.

As our Funds play a larger role in how we move capital and shape new solutions, we need a dedicated Funds Program Manager, who will be the central engine room for our Fund Managers - taking on the operational weight of fundraising execution, fixing data workflows, and keeping information flowing flawlessly across our teams.

Reporting to our Research Operations Lead, we’re looking for someone adept at operations who can build, implement and improve robust systems, ensuring our funding infrastructure matches our global ambition. You’ll also provide operational and administrative support to our Fund Managers and the research team, to help our team scale their impact.

Each fund is currently managed by a dedicated Fund Manager, focused on growth enablement and execution. As Funds Program Manager, you’ll have three primary focus areas:

Your main goal will be to make the operational process of fund fundraising entirely seamless, moving money efficiently and tracking the metrics that drive growth. To achieve this, you’ll:

• Build and scale our systems: Take our current ad-hoc processes and replace them with centralized, robust tracking systems for all quantitative and qualitative fund data (commitments, capital inflows/outflows, and fund performance). You’ll identify strategic or operational bottlenecks and recommend improvements to aid fund scalability.
• Master the pipeline metrics: Pull data out of silos. You’ll map and balance our donor pipeline against our research pipeline of High-Impact Funding Opportunities (HIFOs) - ensuring capital supply smoothly matches disbursement demand.
• Streamline grantmaking mechanics: Co-own the end-to-end coordination of Fund operations - including grant tracking, timelines, committee coordination, approvals, and disbursements - so our Research team/Fund Managers spend zero unnecessary time on admin.
• Anticipate bottlenecks: You’ll proactively surface risks to senior leadership (e.g. delays in research sign-off, capital shortfalls, execution constraints).
• Manage one-off donor and funder requests: This could include tailored reporting, special conditions, or agreement-related obligations, ensuring responsiveness and follow-through.

You’ll eliminate any operational friction between our Fund Managers, Research teams, and the public-facing Communications and Member Experience teams.

• Bridge the gap to Communications: Act as the operational connective tissue to ensure fund materials, external posts, internal memos, and impact reports are accurate, timely, and aligned. You won’t create these materials yourself, but will collaborate to ensure our communications assist our disbursement targets.
• Manage donor commitments: Work closely with our Impact Analytics team to coordinate external reporting, smoothly managing one-off donor requests and special conditions so that we deliver flawlessly on our promises.
• Support high-stakes launches: Coordinate internal functional areas to execute fund launches…