Product Lead, Opportunities Board

ABOUT CEA The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) stewards the movement of people putting effective altruism principles into practice to solve the world’s most pressing problems. We’re working to build a flourishing future by applying evidence, reason, and compassion to challenges like global poverty, animal suffering, and existential risks. Our work centers on growing and supporting a global community of people who rigorously analyze where they can do the most good – and take action on those insights. Current strategic priorities include increasing understanding of effective altruism and its principles, growing the number of people who are motivated by EA principles to take significant action to address pressing problems, and diversifying funding sources for high-impact work. We had significant success in 2025, building momentum within CEA. Our headcount grew from 42 to 66 core staff. Program participation (e.g., events, courses, groups) grew https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NKrpEdg7wAgcoHNRG/cea-is-growing-again-25-more-people-engaged-with-our-1 by 20-25% year over year. We merged https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BLvTcMMEQGFYsh6Jw/ea-funds-and-cea-are-merging with EA Funds https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/ and are rapidly scaling up our capacity for grantmaking and associated fundraising. In 2026, we’re maintaining ambitious momentum https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Dy4iGHbAkKAQ4t2Dw/building-sustainable-momentum-progress-report-on-cea-s-2025 while building the foundations for a step-change in the wider EA ecosystem’s growth trajectory from 2027 onwards. ABOUT THE TEAM The team behind the Opportunities Board is responsible for helping people discover and pursue high-impact career opportunities. We combine product development, user research, marketing, engineering, and operations to build and improve a product that helps people find impactful work and better understand how they can contribute to solving the world's most pressing problems. As Product Lead, you'll own the board's strategy and day-to-day development, working with software engineers, contractors, and colleagues across CEA to grow the product and maximise its impact. CEA’s Opportunities Board https://www.effectivealtruism.org/opportunities is a free, curated board of high-impact opportunities, hosted on effectivealtruism.org http://effectivealtruism.org. It brings together full-time roles, fellowships, internships, volunteering, and courses helping people find impactful work and understand how they can contribute to the world’s most pressing problems. The board was revived in early 2025 and given focused attention in early 2026; monthly visitors have grown from around 1,500 at the start of 2025 to around 7,900 now. Early signals on product-market fit are encouraging: of the respondents to our most recent survey, 36 out of 45 said they would be very disappointed if they could no longer use the board, and around 32% of visits click through to view an opportunity. The opportunity here is growing. The 80,000 Hours job board provides a strong precedent and track record for the impact potential of this kind of service, but has narrowed its focus https://80000hours.org/2026/07/why-were-increasing-the-ai-focus-of-our-job-board/ toward AI and is featuring fewer non-AI roles, leaving a gap for a broad, trusted board covering opportunities within a wider range of top problems. The board’s goal is to increase the number of people who land high-impact roles, both by helping them find and apply to specific opportunities, and by helping earlier-stage people orient, build skills, and work out where they fit. The board is now shifting from initial discovery into validating and scaling the model. We have evidence of demand, healthy engagement, and a plausible path to cost-effective impact at scale. What is needed now is a capable operator to own the board, grow it, and chase the ceiling of just how much impact this can generate. ABOUT THE ROLE You'll…