
Senior Product Manager, Targeting
Givedirectly
Nairobi | Full Time | NGO / Non-Profit Associations
Closing in 1 week from now
What You’ll Do
Lead Humanitarian Needs Analysis for Targeting
- Design and implement approaches for systematically assessing needs in crisis-affected populations.
- Incorporate humanitarian data sources e.g., needs assessments, poverty statistics, vulnerability indices, displacement monitoring, etc into GD’s targeting systems.
- Translate complex needs analysis into clear eligibility criteria and operational plans as a service to other teams.
Detect and Prioritize Crisis Events
- Develop systems and frameworks to monitor global crises and determine when GD should mobilize.
- Partner with humanitarian agencies, data providers, and crisis monitoring organizations to integrate reliable event and needs assessment signals into GD’s workflow.
Identify Relevant Subpopulations
- Define methodologies and establish systems for determining which groups within a crisis are most relevant for GD’s programs, using vulnerability analysis and humanitarian standards.
Generate Recipient Lists
- Establish the tool kit for producing accurate, actionable lists of individuals to be enrolled in GD IRR programs.
Technical Product Management
- Lead and steward the roadmap for targeting capabilities, including capability prioritization
- Lead end-to-end product development from problem discovery and user requirements gathering to launch and iteration, hand-in-hand with engineering, data science, and operations
- Pair strong technical expertise with deep understanding of users and humanitarian realities to design reusable, leveraged systems
- Conduct agile iterative experiments and pilots to validate assumptions about crisis detection and targeting, using results to refine strategy
- Define and track success metrics for targeting products
- Direct engineering and data science and partner with operations teams to ensure outputs are timely, relevant, and usable in the field.
Drive Efficiency and Learning
- Continuously evaluate and improve targeting approaches for speed, accuracy, and inclusivity, while maintaining humanitarian principles.
- Stay abreast of technology and industry developments to ensure GD is leveraging cutting-edge approaches to targeting.
- Document learnings and build playbooks to scale best practices across different contexts.
What You’ll Bring
- Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity.
- Proven experience conducting humanitarian needs analysis — assessing vulnerabilities, interpreting crisis data, and applying frameworks such as the IPC, MIRA, or sectoral needs assessments.
- 5+ years of product management experience, with a track record of shipping data-intensive or humanitarian-focused products and collaborating closely with engineers and data teams.
- High technical fluency across data engineering, data analytics, and data science – ability to ask the right questions, internalize technical tradeoffs between approaches, and shape complex data and technical challenges into operationally viable targeting strategies.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences, including humanitarian partners.
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-changing, high-stakes environments.
- Ability to adapt to change and navigate ambiguity and a curiosity-driven mindset.
- Strong product sense and ability to balance speed and rigor in high uncertainty.
- Demonstrated ability to design reusable systems, processes, and technology that scale across multiple contexts.
- Supervisory and team leadership skills, including setting direction for analysts, data scientists and data engineers. Proven ability to set priorities, provide mentorship, and build collaborative cross-functional teams.
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