CEO
Non-Trivial
📍Remote (Global) 🕔 Part or Full Time
💰 £75,000 - £95,000 ⏳ 19/06/2025
As CEO, you'll lead Non-Trivial in dramatically expanding our impact. Your work will reach and inspire thousands of the world’s most talented high schoolers. You will own all aspects of our outreach strategy and its execution, expanding on our existing success and testing new approaches.
Why We’re Hiring
After successfully establishing Non-Trivial and securing its foundations, our founding CEO Peter McIntyre is transitioning to AI safety work while remaining involved as a board member. Our previous key funder, Good Ventures, will no longer be funding high school programs. A new major potential funder, Carina, has committed to funding the majority of our budget until the end of 2027 conditional on confidence in the new CEO.
(Good Ventures’ exit does not reflect Open Philanthropy’s assessment of Non-Trivial’s impact. Our lead grantmaker at OP notes: "I think Non-Trivial is filling what is currently a pretty neglected niche identifying and supporting talented high-school students; our estimates suggest they meet OP's cost-effectiveness bar for this kind of outreach work. I would like to see them get funded.")
Responsibilities
You'll be responsible for setting Non-Trivial's strategic direction and building the systems and culture needed to achieve our mission at scale.
You might do things like:
Design and execute our strategy to 3x our impact over the next two years.
Lead our programs from admissions through to impact, including selecting from thousands of applicants and developing the curriculum for hundreds of participants each year.
Define and track key metrics for organizational success and impact evaluation.
Lead fundraising conversations with major donors and foundations.
Maintain and build partnerships with top international competitions (e.g. IOI or EGMO).
Recruit and develop an exceptional team of facilitators, mentors, and core staff.
Shape our programs to maximize both reach and impact.
Lead external communications including our newsletter of ~100k students.
Build the operational foundation for growth by managing our £600k budget, maintaining compliance with UK charity and safeguarding requirements, and optimizing our core processes.
About You
You might be a particularly good fit for this role if you:
Share our passion for empowering people who want to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Have experience building and growing communities of high-performing people.
Demonstrate exceptional analytical rigor and strategic judgment, especially under uncertainty.
Are relentlessly resourceful and enjoy managing ambitious projects with multiple moving parts, competing priorities, and tight deadlines.
Emjoy teaching the concepts explored in our programs (e.g. opportunity cost, counterfactual reasoning, Fermi estimates).
Work autonomously while maintaining high standards of integrity and ethics.
Actively seek feedback and demonstrate continuous learning and growth.
Excel at clear communication and relationship building. You convey complex ideas clearly and transparently.
Are detail-oriented and skilled at building scalable systems.
It’s a bonus but not required to have:
Leadership experience, ideally managing teams and budgets >$250k.
Experience in research, policy, or (non-profit) entrepreneurship.
We know the perfect candidate may not tick every box. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all criteria, especially if you come from an underrepresented background.
Application Process
We’ll be conducting rolling interviews, so apply earlier to be considered sooner.
If selected, you will be invited for 1-2 interviews with the team and board where we can both assess mutual fit.
Next, you will complete a 4 hour work sample relevant to the role.
Finally, promising candidates will be invited for a multi-day work trial with our team (in-person in our London office strongly preferred).
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Benefits
Compensation: £75,000 - £95,000
25 days of paid holiday plus bank holidays
Standard UK pension, with 3% contribution from employer
£5,000 mental health support allowance
£3,000 annual technology budget
Flexible work hours & part-time options available
A supportive work environment to grow and do your best work
