About Coefficient Giving

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is a philanthropic funder and advisor. Since 2014, we’ve directed over $5 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. We work with a range of donors who share our commitment to cost-effective, high-impact giving. Our current funds include Science and Global Health R&D, Navigating Transformative Artificial Intelligence, Abundance & Growth, Farm Animal Welfare, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, and more. In 2025, we recommended more than $1 billion to high-impact causes.

We’re proud of our track record:

• Our grants to evidence-backed global health programs have saved over 100,000 lives, and our farm animal welfare grants have improved the lives of over 3 billion animals.

• We supported late-stage clinical trials for the R21 malaria vaccine, now being scaled to protect millions of kids globally.

• We were the earliest major funder of the YIMBY movement to build more housing. Our grantees have led the charge on major wins like City of Yes in New York, and SB 79 in California, which will enable hundreds of thousands of new housing units.

• We jump-started the field of AI safety and security and have played a vital role in addressing other existential threats, such as mirror bacteria.

About the role

You would join the legal team as our sixth attorney and report to our General Counsel, Molly Kovite, to help us navigate legal questions and collaborate with staff to generate solutions. Coefficient Giving does highly innovative work that is often without legal precedent; as a result, the legal work requires more creativity and collaboration than most in-house roles. The legal team prides itself on being friendly and efficient.

We expect to hire at the Counsel level by default, but we’re open to hiring at the Senior Counsel level for exceptional candidates with especially relevant experience and context on our work.

Your largest responsibilities will depend on your unique background and strengths. However, common responsibilities may include:

• Providing legal advice to program and operations teams and developing creative solutions to legal issues faced by staff.

• Resolving a wide range of complex legal questions from grantmaking staff, as well as handling compliance, structural, and contractual issues related to grantmaking. Examples could include:

  • Conducting due diligence on international grants

  • Offering advice to the grants team on the optimal vehicle for routing a given grant

  • Drafting custom grant agreements and leading term negotiations or discussions with grantees

  • Creating systems for tracking and complying with reporting requirements to donors

  • Training staff on an array of legal issues, such as ADA compliance, lobbying, risks of grantmaking in China, or data privacy

  • Helping teams shape projects by assessing and communicating about potential sources of legal risk

  • Collaborating with our Government Relations team to provide legal input on our engagement with elected and appointed government officials, as well as grantmaking related to politics and public policy.

• Expanding services available to our grantees, such as guidance on legal entity creation, consultation programs, or information sessions.

• Driving internal legal projects, such as spinning up new entities or drafting policy and guidance documents.

• Supporting corporate compliance tasks, such as recurring board meetings, state-mandated harassment trainings, or wage and hour postings.

• Answering internal HR questions related to hiring processes, offer letters, NDAs, contracts, terminations, and other employee relations issues.

• Proactively seeking out ways to help us achieve our goals by developing an understanding of CG’s broader priorities.

Coefficient Giving is made up of several affiliated organizations that help us carry out our program staff’s giving recommendations. We work with entities including a 501(c)(3) private foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity, a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, and donor-advised funds at outside charitable organizations. We make general support and project grants to U.S. nonprofits, international grants requiring additional diligence and reporting, scholarships and research grants, investments in for-profit companies, and contributions to support lobbying and political work. We don’t expect you to be familiar with each area of grantmaking yet, but developing an understanding of the trade-offs between different giving vehicles and helping us come up with creative solutions for routing grants will be a key component of the role.

Who might be a good fit

You might be a good fit if you:

• Clearly communicate legal considerations to non-legal audiences. You are impatient with unnecessary legalese, delay, and overcomplication, and are comfortable seeking unconventional solutions to help us achieve our programmatic goals. Our priority is generally to get resources to grantees as simply and efficiently as possible while protecting the organization’s interests.

• Are practical about risk and don’t default to “worst-case scenario” assessments. You are comfortable comparing and communicating the likelihood of different risks. You flag and quantify risks rather than prohibit them, and communicate clearly about the degree of uncertainty and where that uncertainty stems from.

• Are comfortable quickly getting up to speed in unfamiliar areas of law. No prior knowledge or experience with nonprofit law, LLCs, political law, non-traditional philanthropic funding models, intellectual property, lobbying, grants management, and/or international grantmaking is required (though we would consider experience in these areas as a bonus), but you should be excited to learn new areas of law while on the job.

• Are flexible and ready to help in many different capacities. Your day-to-day responsibilities could span from reviewing basic contracts to advising on complex legal matters to managing operational projects.

• Have been admitted to the bar in at least one U.S. jurisdiction. We are open to candidates working remotely, including outside the U.S., so long as they meet this criterion and can work in a time zone to collaborate with colleagues based on the East and West Coasts of the U.S.

Experience in the following areas would be nice-to-have, but not required:

• Political advising experience

• Tax-exempt experience

• Dual U.S./U.K. legal qualifications

• Familiarity with Coefficient Giving’s mission and work

We expect candidates at the Counsel level to have at least 7 years of experience practicing in the legal field and at least 2 years of in-house or equivalent experience (e.g. many legal roles in government or philanthropy would qualify).

At the Senior Counsel level, we expect candidates to have more than 7 years of experience practicing in the legal field and at least 2 years of in-house or equivalent experience, along with one or more of the criteria listed under the nice-to-haves.

This job description is intentionally broad and covers multiple potential outcomes in terms of scope and seniority. This reflects our willingness to shape the role around the backgrounds and skills of specific candidates.

Above all, we are looking for people motivated to contribute to our mission of helping others as much as we can with the resources available to us. Whatever your background, please apply if this role would make you excited to come to work every day.

Role details & benefits

• For the Counsel level, compensation would be: $242,500.00 (for U.S. hires), distributed as a base salary of $218,000.00 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $24,500.00. At the Senior Counsel level, compensation would be $284,000.00 (for U.S. hires), distributed as a base salary of $259,500.00 and an unconditional 401(k) grant of $24,500.00.

  • There would be a 10% upward adjustment for candidates based in SF or D.C. and a 5% upward adjustment for candidates based in NYC, provided you co-work from our offices an average of two days per week.

  • All compensation will be distributed as take-home salary for internationally based hires. Candidates must have been admitted to the bar in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.

• Time zones and location: you can work remotely, but must have significant overlap with U.S. time zones to collaborate with the rest of the legal team and program teams at Coefficient Giving. You are welcome and encouraged to work from one of our offices in San Francisco or Washington, D.C.

  • Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas for this role.

• Benefits: Our benefits package includes:

  • Excellent health insurance (we cover 100% of premiums within the U.S. for you and any eligible dependents) and an employer-funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement for certain other personal health expenses.

  • Dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your family.

  • Four weeks of PTO recommended per year.

  • Four months of fully paid family leave.

  • A generous and flexible expense policy — we encourage staff to expense the ergonomic equipment, software, and other services that they need to stay healthy and productive. This policy also includes a productivity benefit, which provides a set amount for staff to expense items that enhance their productivity.

  • A continual learning policy that encourages staff to spend time on professional development with related expenses covered.

  • Support for remote work — we’ll cover a remote workspace outside your home if you need one, or connect you with a Coefficient Giving coworking hub in your city. We currently have offices in San Francisco and Washington D.C., and multiple staff working from several other cities in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  • We can’t always provide every benefit we offer U.S. staff to international hires, but we’re working on it (and will usually provide cash equivalents of any benefits we can’t offer in your country).

• Start date: We expect to make an offer by early July, and we’d like a candidate to start as soon as possible after receiving an offer, though we are willing to be flexible for the right candidate.

We aim to employ people with many different experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds who share our passion for accomplishing as much good as we can. We are committed to creating an environment where all employees have the opportunity to succeed, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, or have any other questions about applying, please contact jobs@coefficientgiving.org.

Please apply by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, May 8th, 2026, to be considered.

U.S.-based Operations staff are typically employed by Coefficient Giving LLC, which is not a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization. As such, this role is unlikely to be eligible for public service loan forgiveness programs.

We may use AI to assist in the initial screening of applications, including to detect whether candidates have used AI models in drafting their application. Decisions are always made by a human on our team.

If you have any questions about our use of AI tools, you can email jobs@coefficientgiving.org.