Description

Rippleworks Foundation believes all people should have equitable access to the resources and opportunities to live life to the fullest. Our mission is to provide the practical support entrepreneurs and their teams need to scale faster and improve more lives. Rippleworks’ programs have directly supported 383 ventures by running 450 custom advisory projects across 80 countries, running workshops for 2,500+ leaders and deploying more than over $300 million in unrestricted funding to help these ventures grow.

We are a mission-driven team dedicated to helping impactful ventures thrive. Our goal is to create the best possible workplace for purpose-driven professionals to make an outsized difference in the world—learning, growing, and having fun together along the way.

Rippleworks has been named one of the World's Most Innovative Companies (by Fast Company) and one of the world’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (by Fast Company and Accenture)

We support our portfolio of Ventures in 4 ways:

Projects: Short-term, high-impact projects where social ventures work with leading executives to tackle top operational priorities

Expert Office Hours: Specialized, contextually relevant advice for ventures from Rippleworks Experts

Leaders Studio: Expert-led learning programs where leaders gain critical skills ventures need to deliver impact at scale.

Capital: Provides hard-to-find capital required for scale (grants and loans)

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion at Rippleworks. Rippleworks is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. Rippleworks also complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or

to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email christina@rippleworks.org. Please note we cannot currently sponsor or support visa transfers at this time. Additionally, in compliance with applicable law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work.

Hiring Key Dates:

- Applications Open: July 6th

- Applications Closed: July 24, 2026

- Interviews occurring: July 7 - Aug 17, 2026

About the Expert Engagement team (EE) (team photo):

We envision a world where every venture reaches its mission through our network’s partnership, and leaders engage us for opportunities to uplift humanity. We accelerate venture impact and ultimately enable our Portfolio by bridging them with a curated network of mission-driven leaders, and that's where you come in.

Our Expert Engagement team of 3 is looking for our 4th teammate and first ever Sourcing Manager to proactively expand one of the world’s most influential & intentionally curated communities of mission-driven leaders. We call this our and it breathes at the center of everything we do for our Portfolio of social ventures.

Our Expert Engagement team sources, recruits, prepares, and coaches particular executives from around the globe to partner with our portfolio of ventures in a suite of opportunities. These volunteers, we call experts, share their wisdom and provide practical guidance on specific operational priorities & challenges. In return, these experts learn about new markets & industries, create and or deepen their experiences in social impact, have a lot of fun and sometimes will even work with their venture long-term.

To date, we’ve built an Expert Network of 450+ leaders that have served 350+ ventures over more than 800 different engagements.

The Role

As our first-ever Sourcing Manager, you'll be the first person most of our experts ever meet, aka the front door to the Expert Network. You'll identify, engage, and build deep personal relationships with various leaders & executives across industries, sectors, business functions, and countries, proactively shaping an Expert Network that matches our Portfolio's needs.

You and our two Talent Managers work as a relay: you spark the relationship; a talent manager takes it from engagement to impact. You're the start of every expert's journey with Rippleworks and the owner of our comms & convenings across networks.

You'll thrive in this role if you love building relationships and partnering closely with great leaders seeking to do more good in the world.

The Sourcing Manager reports directly to the Team Lead.

Specifically, you will:

Partner across Rippleworks teammates and our Portfolio alike to understand priority business needs, translate into an ideal expert profile and proactively engage potential experts.
Build diverse networks of potential experts through sourcing and community engagement.
Design and run events and community experiments (incl newsletters) that turn cold introductions into experts who can't wait to be matched.
Contribute to building One Rippleworks by impacting the entire company. We believe that everyone at Rippleworks proactively shapes our company culture to increase belonging and do our best work.

Requirements

6+ years of general work experience
4+ years of recruitment or sourcing experience
1+ years experience working with experienced senior leaders
Confident & curious communicator with a wide breadth of leadership across director, VP & CxO-levels.
Building impactful relationships is in your ethos.
Nice to have:
A passion for marketing & community management related work
1+ years work experience in social impact/doing good in the world
AI utilization that enhances candidate sourcing & engagement

Competencies for this role

Recruiting: You have successful work experience in executive recruiting in which you quickly find, build relationships, and assess top-level executives.
Data-driven: You systematically aggregate, organize, and analyze candidate databases to provide insights that enable the team to achieve long-term goals.
Effective Communication: You synthesize complex ideas into compelling narratives. Whether over Slack, in an expert intro call, facilitating an event, or on a catch up call with your CEO, your communication is direct, accessible, considerate, and drives collaboration & action.
Managing Diverse Relationships: You naturally gravitate toward diverse perspectives and excel at finding common ground. You build authentic, lasting relationships with leaders across varied industries, sectors, and geographies.

Core competencies for all Rippleworks employees

Ventures First: Deeply understands venture needs in order to design and deliver exceptional value to our venture partners through the experts who support them.
Learn Forward: Continuously and actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as growth opportunities.
Connect with Care: Engages our global community with curiosity and kindness across roles and levels, backgrounds, and geographies to cultivate trust, inclusivity, belonging, and collaborative success rooted in both empathy and fairness.
Progress over Perfection: Navigates dynamic, changing situations and makes decisions or creates a path forward even with imperfect or incomplete information
Be an Owner: Reliably executes and takes initiative to deliver high-quality work and impact with care and tenacity. Evolves solutions that best serves ventures, Rippleworks, and the broader team.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation & Benefits: Earn a salary of $168,000 with robust benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, 401(k) + employer match, holidays, flexible PTO, wellness, and remote-work stipends. While Rippleworks has one global salary structure, the salary listed here reflects employees on US payroll. To keep total rewards equitable across countries, salaries may be adjusted if hiring in a country where employer-paid compulsory benefits are significantly more robust and costly than in the US.
Global Engagement: Travel opportunities to connect with the social impact ecosystem and experience Rippleworks' impact firsthand. Extend work trips through our Study Abroad Program for regional exploration.
Giving Back: Participate in our Community Grants program, awarding $50K to a nonprofit of your choice, plus a $2,500 charitable donation match for financial or volunteer contributions.
Growth-Oriented Culture: Access professional coaching, a generous learning budget, and regular team learning events to support personal and professional development.
Flexible Remote-First Environment: Enjoy flexible work hours, remote-first stipends, and meaningful virtual and in-person connections through Core Collaboration Weeks (2–3 times per year).
Sabbatical Benefit: After five years, take four weeks off for rest, travel, or personal exploration to refresh and reenergize.

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