Director AI Opportunity Development

You will build an opportunity pipeline across AI, civil society, government, and philanthropy. You will assess technical feasibility, social value, adoption paths, and risks; validate opportunities with users and experts; and recommend whether to fund, partner, prototype, recruit, incubate, revisit, or stop.

Responsibilities

• Build a pipeline of AI opportunity ideas and relationships
• Track AI capabilities and connect them to consequential social needs
• Develop concrete opportunity theses
• Conduct technical and strategic diligence
• Validate opportunities through interviews, workshops, and field visits
• Recommend execution paths and establish repeatable scouting and diligence practices

Requirements

• Deep technical judgment about AI capabilities and limitations
• Experience building technology or products
• Zero-to-one product-building experience
• Ability to conduct rigorous research and evaluate evidence
• Portfolio judgment and prioritization skills
• Ability to communicate with technical and nontechnical audiences
• Judgment regarding safety, equity, local context, and responsible deployment