Senior Officer, Technical AI Initiatives 2 Year LTE
Job Location:
Seattle, WA - USA
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Job Summary
The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofitfighting poverty disease and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere regardless of identity or circumstances should have the chance to live healthy productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve.We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage with no premiums generous paid time off paid family leave foundation-paid retirement contribution regional holidays and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.As a workplace were committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team
The TeamThe Foundation Strategy Office is the primary function supporting the creation and evolution of our program level strategies as well as exploring new paths to impact that align with our mission. This includes supporting the CEO CFO and Chief Strategy Officer in key accountabilities including strategy development strategy revision strategy performance measurement portfolio management and special initiatives to accelerate the impact of the foundation.
Within the Foundation Strategy Office the AI Steering Committee (AI SC) Secretariat serves as the strategic and operational backbone for setting Board Chair and Executive Leadership Teams agenda on AI best practice identification and execution support for high-priority cross-cutting AI strategy. The AI SC was established to help the foundation navigate the rapidly evolving AI landscape enabling a cross-organization group of foundation directors to serve as the AI nerve center for the organization through incorporation of external trends on AI into program strategies elevation of best practices and cross-organization prioritization of our funding and our voice on AI.
This role will be based out of the Seattle Washington headquarters.
Your Role
This role sits at the center of FSOs AI transformation workoperatingacross three interconnected workstreams: the AI Steering Committee secretariat the Foundations enterprise AI platform and the FSO AI Learning Agenda.
The core of the role is pattern recognition and systems building across contexts. You will engage directly with staff across programmatic operational strategy and IT functions to understandhowknowledge workactually happens and from thatidentifywhere AI creates the most transformative value at what scale and what needs to be built. You will drive day-to-day progress across all three workstreams: developing use cases and requirements building roadmaps tracking the Foundations AI portfolio and designing learning experiences that shift how FSO staff work.
This position is a limited-term position for24 months.
What Youll Do
Prototype and iterate AI-enabled tools copilots agents and workflow automations moving from concept to usable internal solutions with feedback loops and continuous improvement built in from the start.
Identifyhigh-leverageuse cases mapworkflowsand stakeholder needs with precision and synthesize structured requirements that drive platform design and development prioritization.
Define reusable patterns for AI components that scale across teams including prompt design retrieval approaches and evaluation frameworks partnering with IT to ensure solutions are production-ready and architecturally sound.
Scope and structure complex work products for distributed execution:determineoptimalsourcing approaches (external vendors AI Fellows or other internal resources) decompose larger initiatives into discrete components assignable across sub-groups and ensure outputs can be integrated back into coherent high-quality deliverables.
Monitor the external AI landscape and translate emerging developments into strategic implications for senior leadership.
Conduct discovery with FSO staff to understand their goals and workflows then design andfacilitatelearning experiences workshops hackathons and coaching that build AI fluency and shift how the division works.
Act as aplayer-coach: guiding staff to build their own solutions whereappropriate while directly developing higher-complexity tools that require deepersystemsthinking.
Deliverables
Use Case and Requirements Library Structured workflow analyses stakeholder needs and AI use cases organized to drive development prioritization and platform design.
Platform Roadmap Inputs Multi-dimensional analyses mapping business relevance data availability feasibility and strategic fit for development planning.
FSO AI Learning& AI Steer Co Operations AIRoadmaps A living roadmap of capabilities and learning experiences including net-new components surfaced through direct staff engagement.
Your Experience
- Hands-on experience building AI-enabled workflows automations or tools using LLM APIs (OpenAI Anthropic Gemini) no-code/low-code platforms (Zapier Make n8n) agent frameworks or enterprise AI platforms (Azure OpenAI AWS Bedrock Google Vertex) with the technical intuition to evaluate feasibility make informed build-vs-buy recommendations and engage credibly with engineering teams on requirements and tradeoffs.
Familiarity with data infrastructure concepts sufficient toidentifyupstream requirements for AI use cases including data pipelines APIs structured vs. unstructured data and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures.
Deep experience in strategy consulting business analysis product management or a related fieldrequiringstructured problem-solving and synthesis across complex stakeholder environments.
Proven ability to pattern match and synthesize cross-cutting themes across diverse domains building structured frameworks taxonomies and roadmaps from what you find.
Provenexpertisemapping workflows and translating that understanding into development-ready requirements and specifications.
Significant experiencepreparing materials for and engaging with senior executives and board-level stakeholders including the ability to distill complex or ambiguous topics into decision-ready formats.
Significant experiencecommunicating with a broad and diverse audience including across potential barriers such as language and distance.
Mastery level knowledge of end-to-end complex project management including process design team structure critical thinking requirements development of novel communication resources and external/senior partner engagement.
Mastery level knowledge of data analysis and visualization including the ability touse data to create persuasive narratives and novel insights.
Preferred
Experience in human-centered design or service design apractitionersinstinct for understanding what people need before designing solutions.
Familiarity with knowledge management organizational learning or change management frameworks.
Experience in global health international development or a related mission-driven sector.
Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located. The Foundation does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. This includes direct company sponsorship and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (eg: H-1B O-1 L-1 E OPT STEM-OPT CPT TN J-1 etc.).
The salary range for this role is $190100 to $294700 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle andWashingtonD.C. where our offices arelocated. The range for this role in these locations is $209100 to $324100 USD. As a mission-driven organization we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidates job-related skills experience andexpertise as evaluated during the interview process.
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Hiring Requirements
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Candidate Accommodations
Were committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates. If you have a disability or medical condition and need an accommodation at any stage of the application or interview processsuch as an ASL interpreter alternative interview format or physical accessibility supportwere happy to help. Please contact with the position number and a brief description of your accommodation needs. Requests will be handled confidentially.
Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity equity and inclusion of voices ideas and approaches and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race color age religion pregnancy sex sexual orientation disability gender identity gender expression national origin genetic information veteran status marital status and prior protected activity.
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