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Role Overview

Please note: We are currently accepting direct applications from candidates based in the US only.

The Agency Fund is a US non-profit funder-doer that builds projects to expand human agency. Our small, global team combines expertise in software, AI, social psychology, and development economics, and our community of 200+ organizations reaches millions annually.

We have built and commercialized tech platforms that optimize NGO operations and strengthen their ability to learn and adapt through experimentation, automation, and better data use. We are now looking for a seasoned software engineer to join our team (as a contract role), contributing expertise while building with our partner NGOs.

Responsibilities:

• Be agentic by fostering a culture of proactive problem-solving and initiative-taking
• Build reference codebases for the social sector to learn from and adapt
• Provide advice and support to NGOs building generative AI products
• Streamline data across different sources to create a single source of truth for all analytics within a given organization
• Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our in-kind work
• Create internal tools to run various experiments across digital services, such as content, schedule, and nudges
• Participate in organizing workshops and seminars on a variety of topics, from cultivating research mindsets to innovations in personalizing interventions
• Conduct site visits to observe NGO operations and draft recommendations to address technical needs
• Ship fast by implementing rapid development and deployment cycles to deliver solutions efficiently and iteratively
• Be a mentor to NGOs, demonstrating industry best practices, culture and tooling to the staff we may work with, helping to grow these capabilities from within as well

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies
• Proficient with TypeScript, React, and other web technologies
• Are proficient with a backend language (the company uses Python)
• Experience in proposing, designing, and running rigorous experiments with clear insights and product recommendations using R, SQL, or Python
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Proficient in data engineering and integrating diverse data sources
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Must have interest in large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (direct experience not required)

What we offer:

• Interesting and challenging work with a diverse set of social sector organizations
• A global collaborative team to learn and work with
• Opportunities for travel contingent on visa acquisition
• Opportunity to work from anywhere, anytime, with an asynchronous team

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Role Overview

Please note: We are currently accepting direct applications from candidates based in the US only.

The Agency Fund is a US non-profit funder-doer that builds projects to expand human agency. Our small, global team combines expertise in software, AI, social psychology, and development economics, and our community of 200+ organizations reaches millions annually.

We are looking for a Product Manager to help build and deploy data systems (ELT) and experimentation platforms (A/B testing) for our non-profit grantees. We integrate with existing systems that collect data (ODK, Chatbots, etc) to deliver learning and experimentation at scale.

Our ideal candidate is one part data engineer, one part data scientist, one part user research, and one part partnerships whiz.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the main interface with NGO partners: build trustful relationships, scope collaborations and uncover pain points.
• Translate these pain points into: (a) targeted technical advisory on product, engineering, data, experimentation; (b) new product ideas/pilots; or (c) scoped features for existing products.
• Define and drive product roadmaps, distill complex partner workflows into clear, actionable engineering requirements. Establish simple processes that foster teamwork.
• Get your hands dirty: help building dashboards, data pipelines, AI evaluations or A/B tests
• Build strong relationships across the ecosystem, coordinating partnerships and joint product development

Required Experience and Skills:

• 5+ years in product management, solutions engineering, tech consulting or similar client‑facing roles.
• Relevant experience in the Tech for International Development or similar low-resourced sectors.
• Proven track record of shipping products end‑to‑end and driving significant user adoption, ideally in B2B
• Built and shipped AI/LLM Product features, Data pipelines/warehouses, production APIs & integrations
• Experience with quantitative user research design, statistical data analysis, dashboarding and A/B testing.

What we offer:

• Interesting and challenging work with a diverse set of social sector organizations
• A global collaborative team to learn and work with
• Opportunities for travel contingent on visa acquisition
• Opportunity to work from anywhere, anytime, with an asynchronous team

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