Portfolio and Platform Lead, MNCNH Artificial Intelligence (*3-Year LTE)

The Foundation We are the largest nonprofit fighting 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, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally. The Team The MNCNH team works to eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity among women, newborns, and children in low-resource settings. We do this by funding and accelerating a portfolio of high-impact products targeted at the moments of greatest biological vulnerability across the life-course. Our portfolio addresses pregnancy risk, maternal undernutrition, prematurity, neonatal encephalopathy, child wasting, neurodevelopment, and maternal morbidity through drugs, foods, microbes, devices, risk algorithms, and increasingly through AI and connected device technologies that extend the reach of these interventions where health systems are weakest. The portfolio spans the full development continuum from early discovery through implementation research and country introduction. A multidisciplinary team of physician scientists, epidemiologists, engineers, nutritionists, and commercialization experts works alongside in-country partners to integrate local context into research, development, and scale. The Division The Gender Equality Division’s mission is to ensure women and girls in Africa and South Asia can enjoy good health, make their own choices, earn their own money, and be leaders in their societies. When women and girls have an equal chance to thrive and lead, everyone benefits. We know that women and girls are not a monolith. A woman’s experience and the barriers she faces are different depending on factors like where she lives, how old she is, and how much money her family has, alongside other factors including her race, caste, and education level. We seek to address these compounding barriers through deep partnership with our grantees. As a philanthropy, our role is to listen to and learn from these experts. We take risks in new areas, prove concepts, and bring these ideas to governments, partner organizations, and private sector companies to scale. The Gender Equality Division builds off our existing strengths as a foundation in areas like global health and data, partnering closely with all our global divisions. *This position is a limited-term position for 36 months. Relocation will be provided. Your Role The Portfolio and Platform Lead will play a central role in managing the lifecycle of MNCNH’s AI projects, from proof-of-concept to regional or national scale across maternal, newborn, and child health programs. This individual will bridge the gap between product development and operational implementation, ensuring AI initiatives are both technically sound and scalable in the antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal, and early-childhood care settings where MNCNH operates. You will provide centralized oversight of the MNCNH AI portfolio, including the grants and investments that deliver it, ensuring projects move efficiently through development, adoption, and scale-up phases in coordination with the foundation-wide AI Steering Committee. You will coordinate with internal MNCNH technical leads, country teams, grantees, and external partners to optimize resources and maximize impact on maternal and child outcomes. What You’ll Do Portfolio and Product Management Manage AI projects and supporting grants/contracts from concept through scale. Build frameworks to track timelines, budgets, milestones, and grant performance. Assess project readiness at each stage and inform follow-on investment decisions. Identify and address product bottlenecks across the portfolio. Keep the portfolio aligned to the MNCNH Clinical Decision Support and Patient Self-Care AI Strategy. Work with Program Officers to source and design new grants and contracts, including investment memos, and guide proposals through the foundation’s review process. Serve as a technical thought partner to grantees, helping them hit milestones, course correct, and connect to the broader AI portfolio. User Experience and Product Design Embed human-centered design so tools reflect the workflows, literacy levels, and constraints of frontline cadres in LMIC settings. Identify usability gaps (interface, accessibility, low-bandwidth performance) and drive fixes with partners and grantees. Commission and synthesize user research to inform portfolio priorities and partner expectations. Set portfolio-wide design standards covering trust indicators, error handling, explainability, and workflow integration. Stakeholder Coordination and Strategy Align product strategies with organizational goals across AI teams, grant managers, grantees, and external partners. Build relationships with ministries of health, country MNCH programs, multilateral partners, peer funders, and implementers to support AI adoption in service delivery. Develop AI product introduction strategies that reflect operational realities in LMIC contexts. Organize and facilitate partner convenings to share learning, align on standards, and surface cross-cutting opportunities and risks. Scaling and Resource Optimization Identify high-potential AI initiatives (risk-stratification algorithms, clinical decision support, and diagnostics for low-resource settings) and guide them through the maturity pipeline. Identify barriers to scale and connect products to the enabler