Executive Director

The Levi Strauss Foundation, founded in 1952, advances pioneering social change on the issues and events of our time. Its community partners across the globe reflect and bring to life Levi Strauss & Co.’s institutional values: originality, empathy, integrity and courage. As a corporate foundation with family roots, it aims to take courageous risks in service of these values and strives for meaningful impact over the course of decades, with its core program areas focused on advancing social justice and improving the lives of apparel workers and the communities in which they live and work.

The Levi Strauss Foundation seeks an Executive Director who will be a dynamic, visionary leader with a strong equity lens to guide this corporate foundation in setting and routinely evaluating the relevancy of its mission, and to implement foundation policies and programs globally. The preferred candidate will have a compelling mix of experiences, skills, personal characteristics and motivations to lead, manage, and advance the foundation’s initiatives, grantmaking, evaluation and civic engagement. 

The Levi Strauss Foundation has exclusively retained The 360 Group of San Francisco to assist with this search. Please visit https://the360group.us/LSF_ED_PD.pdf to review the complete position description, which includes detailed application instructions. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; earlier applicants may receive priority consideration. To be considered, The 360 Group encourages all interested candidates to submit their applications promptly.