Executive Director

The Enough Project helps wealth holders answer a simple question: how much is enough? Through private journeys and small peer circles, we guide participants to define their ‘enough number’, identify their surplus wealth, and build a plan to deploy it to fund high-impact initiatives.

We are a non-profit, founded in late 2023. Our collaborations with wealth holder networks (including the Giving Pledge, Forward Global, and The ImPact), as well as philanthropic advisors and others, provide us with a strong flow of wealth holders. We currently work mainly with wealth holders in the US and Europe. By 2031, our goal is to have guided 200+ wealth holders, unlocked billions in surplus wealth for high-impact philanthropy, and helped shift the broader norms around wealth accumulation.

Our co-founders, Robert Boogaard and Brent Kessel, have led the organization part-time from the start. As we scale, they want to hand over leadership and step into an active supporting role, helping shape the vision, leading outreach, and advising wealth holders.

|   The Opportunity

We're looking for a full time executive director capable of taking the Enough Project from a founder-led start-up into a professional, durable, well-run organization. This is the ideal role for someone excited to build on a strong foundation. 

You'll take over day-to-day leadership from Robert, who will move to the supervisory board you report to and will actively support you through the transition. You'll refine the current vision and translate it into a working strategy and plan, build out the team, put in place the systems that let the organization run without depending on any one person, and raise the funding to achieve ambitious growth goals (building on a 2-year runway already in place covering current costs, including the executive director).

|   What you'll do

Lead the organization

• Set strategy and translate it into plans and OKRs, with input from the team

• Own hiring, budget, and operations

• Put in place the operational systems a growing organization needs

• Track and report progress against our goals

• Lead fundraising, with active support from the co-founders

• When the time is right, transition from a fiscally sponsored entity to an independent 501(c)3 structure

Build the team

• Hire, develop, and retain top talent

• Grow the team from 5 (with the majority part-time) today to an expected 12-14 full-time team members by 2029 (based on current draft vision), with 2-3 hires in the near term

• Manage teams in the US and in Europe, reflecting where our participants and partners are

• Build a culture where team members feel clear on their role, well resourced, and highly motivated - a culture that itself reflects the sense of ‘enoughness’ we invite in others

Grow the ‘enough’ ecosystem

• Maintain and build partnerships with wealth holder networks and philanthropy advisors who help our graduates deploy their surplus impactfully at scale

• Support upstream work, setting the organization up to help peer organizations, and the broader ecosystem, to disseminate  ‘enough’ thinking more broadly, creating significant additional indirect impact

|   What success looks like in year one

• We've reached a $100m of additional high-impact grants made by graduates

• The team is clear on roles and responsibilities, feels well resourced and highly motivated, with a clear and equitable compensation structure based on appropriate benchmarks

• You've prioritized recruitment needs and overseen at least two strong hires

• Strong operational systems are in place and running smoothly

• The organization has secured funding commitments to fund the growth plans for 2028-2029

|   What you'll bring

Required

• • 5+ years in executive leadership, growing and managing a team of 10+

  • Track record scaling an organization or division from start-up to its next stage of growth

  • Strong management and team-building skills, with high EQ and the maturity to navigate team dynamics constructively

  • Sharp strategic and operational judgment, comfortable deciding with imperfect information

  • A deep passion for impact, and a pluralistic view of high-impact philanthropy - not tied to one cause area or school of thought, but genuinely driven by effectiveness

  • An understanding of how wealth holders manage their wealth, financial planning concepts and philanthropy

  • Willingness to travel internationally on a regular basis

Preferred

• • Established relationships in wealth holder and/or philanthropic circles

  • Experience leading remote teams across the US and Europe

  • Experience managing budgets and compliance

|   Key Information

Compensation

The starting salary for this role is $225,000-$275,000 (USD) depending on experience and location, plus benefits (health insurance, retirement match, PTO 25 days, professional development budget, and paid parental leave). This compensation package will grow along with organizational scale and impact.

Location

This is a remote role. Given our primary US focus we prefer candidates based in the US, or with strong US ties and willingness to relocate. Because our team and partners span US and European time zones, East Coast hours work best: your morning overlaps with European colleagues, your afternoon with the West Coast. 

With the majority of our team, including Robert, currently based in Europe, a willingness to work from Amsterdam (expenses covered) for 4-8 weeks during onboarding could be beneficial, but is not essential.

Equal opportunity

All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

Hiring process

The application period will run until 25 September 2026. From there the process will be:

1.  Short initial screening call with a hiring committee member (30 minutes)

2.  Interview with one of the co-founders (45 minutes)

3.  Take-home task, paid at your standard rate (3-4 hours)

4.  A live discussion of your take-home task with the team (90 minutes)

5.  Final interview (45 minutes)

6.  Reference check

7.  Final conversation and offer (30 min)

We aim to close the process by the end of October 2026. The chosen executive director should ideally be able to start as soon as possible, and at the latest by 1 January 2027.

We'll let you know where you stand at each stage, whether or not we move forward together. You will receive a first reply to your application by the  2 of October 2026.

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