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The Effective Altruism Opportunities board now lists full-time roles alongside internships, fellowships, and volunteering opportunities. We’re aiming for it to be a curated home for EA opportunities across all cause areas.
If you’re actively looking for a role you might want to check out the board, and if you’re only passively looking you might want to sign up for the newsletter to get a weekly digest of impactful roles.
The Effective Altruism Opportunities Board was originally aimed at helping people find internships, volunteering opportunities, and part-time roles to build skills or contribute to impactful work. It was run by students and young professionals for a long time, and has had multiple iterations over the years.
The Online team at CEA took over the board early 2025, and I started giving it focused attention beginning this year. In April we decided to start listing full-time roles.
After taking over the board I was exploring if the current niche was still what visitors expected and wanted, and whether it was filling a gap. The board's niche was defined back when 80,000 Hours covered full-time roles across cause areas equally (without focusing more strongly on AI safety), and the supply of internships and entry-level roles was lower.
We tested demand in multiple ways. Apart from running user interviews, we ran a survey on the board asking what people were looking for (now with 800+ responses), and added full-time roles to the role-type filter (before we had any full-time listings), to see whether people would look for them organically. Full-time was the most mentioned role type in the survey and the most used filter. It also turned out 48% of the visitors to the board weren't using other popular boards to find EA roles (such as 80,000 Hours or Probably Good).
So in April we started pulling in full-time roles, with help from 80,000 Hours (who are focusing more heavily on roles in AI safety) and Probably Good (who has a broader definition of impactful roles than we do)[1].
Since full-time roles went live, visitors clicking through to a role has gone up from around 32% to 45%, and early signals on product-market fit are encouraging: in a recent survey 36 of 45 people (80%) said they would be very disappointed if they could no longer use the board (the aim is to be above 40%[2]).
Even before adding full-time roles, the board had become the most visited page on effectivealtruism.org.
Monthly visitors have grown from around 1.5k at the start of 2025 to around 7.9k now. Early July we had already hit our annual growth goal for the board.
We shipped a bunch of other improvements at around the same time as releasing the full-time roles.
The board now has an organisation filter, a salary filter, improved location visibility, better mobile design, dedicated SEO pages for specific role types, and many more quality-of-life improvements. We've also built better tracking and have started following up with organisations about placements where the applicant came from the board.
I (Agnes) have been owning and developing the board since last year alongside my other design and product work at CEA, and am now heading out on parental leave.
In the past couple of months we've grown increasingly optimistic about the boards potential, and are therefore looking to hire a full-time product lead to develop it further and explore where it could go. We'll post about the listing in the comments once it's live.
Early 2025, the board was still hosted on ea-internships.pory.app:
July 2025, we ported the board over to effectivealtruism.org:
October 2025 after the first batch of UI improvements:
July 2026 with full-time roles, new organization filter and salary filter, more info on collapsed card, improved UI and interactions:
Thank you to those who’ve given feedback, answered surveys, or joined user interviews, it's helped shape the direction of the board.
Also thankful to @Dane Valerie who is managing the day-to-day of the board and does a huge amount behind the scenes, @Sarah Cheng 🔸 and @Jamie_Harris who partnered with me on the project, and @Conor Barnes 🔶 from 80,000 Hours and @Itamar from Probably Good who generously shared knowledge, numbers, and job listings.
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