Tech Stack

Description

You will serve as the primary strategic data partner to GiveDirectly's fundraising and marketing teams, defining key metrics and building scalable data products to automate reporting and drive decision-making. You will work with AWS, Databricks, SQL, Python, and Tableau to transform data into actionable insights, while collaborating across departments to establish source-of-truth datasets. This remote role requires overlap with East Africa timezone and involves travel 2-3 times per year.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of fundraising model, donor lifecycle, and growth strategy
• Strong technical expertise in data modeling and transformation within a data lakehouse
• Proficiency in SQL for querying and data pipelines, Python for deeper analysis
• Experience with AWS, Databricks, and Tableau
• Ability to function as a senior individual contributor with significant autonomy

Responsibilities

• Set vision and priorities for data supporting fundraising and marketing strategy
• Define, standardize, and document core fundraising and marketing KPIs (retention, LTV, revenue forecasting)
• Design and build robust data models in the warehouse as source-of-truth for fundraising reporting
• Establish clear, trusted source-of-truth datasets and metric logic across Fundraising, Finance, and Leadership
• Identify recurring analytical needs and convert them into scalable, automated data products