Director, Mothers & Babies

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Director leading product strategy for the Mothers & Babies program at GiveDirectly. Developing effective interventions and managing cross-functional teams focused on maternal and newborn outcomes.

Posted 5/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $128,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the product vision and multi-year strategy, translating it into annual and quarterly goals and clear 'go/no-go' decision points.
Define and maintain the core 'hypotheses' that ground GiveDirectly’s investment in this product (impact/value, feasibility/delivery, and growth/fundability), including what evidence would change our confidence.
Build a crisp roadmap that separates (a) what must be proven, (b) what must be built, and (c) what must be scaled—then ruthlessly prioritize to match the year’s goal.
Lead program design choices (e.g., transfer size, timing/cadence, etc), grounded in evidence and operational realities.
Ensure the program meets a high bar for recipient dignity, safeguarding, consent, and clarity - especially given the sensitivity of pregnancy and newborn outcomes.
Partner closely with programs teams to identify where reality diverges from our plans, diagnose root causes, and implement adaptations quickly and thoughtfully.
Identify, evaluate, and manage partners critical to targeting and outcomes (e.g., community health NGOs, health facilities, government health systems, digital maternal health platforms).
Define the operating model: what GiveDirectly must do vs. what partners can do better (and cheaper), and how responsibilities, incentives, data flows, and accountability work.
Develop playbooks for recipient targeting/verification, enrollment of pregnant women, payment timing, troubleshooting, and issue escalation—then standardize across countries where appropriate.
Develop a concrete learning agenda and evidence narrative, ensuring collection of 'decision-grade' evidence and packaging it into a persuasive narrative for stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Exceptional alignment to GD values, passion for our mission, and commitment to recipient dignity and empowerment
8+ years of professional work experience in similar role or function (product, programs, business development, partnerships)
Proven leadership ability and management experience in building high performing teams
Experience working with a distributed team in a multicultural environment
Interest in working as part of a growing company, with awareness about the opportunities and challenges that come with a highly adaptive environment
Strong, succinct communications: Skilled in speaking, writing, presenting, and negotiating across multiple stakeholders
Analytical problem solver: Looks at problems w/ analytical and iterative mindset, with strong framework for prioritization

Benefits

Comp & perks

A positive and supportive team with opportunities for advancement
A demonstrated commitment to helping all staff develop and grow
A competitive salary, including bonus
A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
Flexible paid time off
Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development

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Hard Skills & Tools

program designroadmap developmentevidence collectionrecipient targetingenrollment processespayment timingissue escalationanalytical problem solvingprioritization framework

Soft Skills

leadershipmanagementcommunicationnegotiationadaptabilitycollaborationproblem solvingcultural awarenesscommitment to recipient dignity