AI-Native Advising Strategy Lead

Gates Foundation; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 324,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Paid family leave

Retirement contribution

Regional holidays

Employee communities

Job summary

The Foundation seeks to advance AI-native advising solutions that help students navigate from high school to postsecondary education and into the workforce. You will lead investments to build and steward an organization powering AI-native advising components and engage enterprise providers to integrate these solutions across education platforms used by schools and districts.

You bring mastery of AI product development, platform architecture, and the postsecondary advising landscape, with an

Qualifications

• Advanced degree or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Entrepreneurial track record standing up, scaling, or stewarding new organizations.
• Product and platform-building experience for AI-native software and middleware.
• Experience with enterprise technology providers and edtech distribution.
• Demonstrated investor perspective with complex investments.
• Foresight in emerging tech trends with rapid experimentation.
• Strong knowledge of the advising landscape and pathways.
• Ability to align teams in matrixed environments and communicate with leadership.
• Commitment to equity in education and AI design and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design, negotiate, and manage a portfolio of grants and contracts to advance AI-native advising solutions that improve student outcomes at scale.
• Lead investments to stand up and steward a new or existing organization that bundles navigation public goods into a middleware platform and deploys exemplar low-code AI-native advising systems of engagement.
• Develop and steward the foundation’s distribution strategy for AI-native advising solutions, sequencing investments across enterprise platforms, incumbent providers, and direct-to-institution channels.
• Lead team engagement with enterprise technology providers to encourage integration of navigation solutions into education platforms.
• Steward the long-term health and durability of core product partners and governance, business model viability, and pathways to sustainable scale.
• Continuously scan emerging AI capabilities to propose new approaches when current methods are not working.
• Foster a user-centered design approach to understand incentives and needs of diverse stakeholders.
• Identify gaps in current advising product availability to guide partner positioning.

Skills

AI product development

Platform architecture

Enterprise partnerships

Low-code systems

Stakeholder management

Strategy execution

Education

Advanced degree or equivalent

Job description

The Foundation seeks to advance AI-native advising solutions that help students navigate from high school to postsecondary education and into the workforce. You will lead investments to build and steward an organization powering AI-native advising components and engage enterprise providers to integrate these solutions across education platforms used by schools and districts.

You bring mastery of AI product development, platform architecture, and the postsecondary advising landscape, with an