Senior Program Officer, Portable Memory & Context (24-Month LTE)

About the Foundation The Foundation is the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity worldwide. Job Title Senior Program Officer, Portable Memory & Context Application Deadline Friday, April 24th This position is a limited-term position for 24 months. Relocation will be provided. Role Overview As the Senior Program Officer, you will lead investments focused on building the emerging portable memory and context infrastructure required for next-generation AI systems in education and workforce pathways. Responsibilities Develop and manage a portfolio advancing the end‑to‑end memory stack across education‑to‑workforce pathways, enabling persistent, portable learner and worker context through investments in identity, storage, memory management, agent integration, and governance. Translate architecture into investable strategies, identifying where technical gaps (e.g., evaluation of longitudinal memory, provenance, agent orchestration, local‑first constraints) require targeted funding, standards development, or field‑building. Drive standards and ecosystem alignment by convening partners across frontier AI labs, EdTech, workforce systems, and standards bodies to advance shared schemas, protocols, and portability frameworks. Broker across technical and institutional layers, connecting model developers, infrastructure providers, public sector actors, and product teams to ensure memory systems are usable across real-world education and workforce contexts. Identify and advance priority AI infrastructure layers for education and workforce systems, shaping investments across shared components that enable multiple downstream use cases. Identify and assess emerging technologies and standards that support interoperability across education‑to‑workforce ecosystems. Build a knowledge base and thought leadership around context‑aware, learner‑centered data solutions. Serve as a technical resource to the division on AI infrastructure for education and workforce systems, including data, models, evaluation, and interoperability. Negotiate, execute, and manage a complex portfolio of grants or performance‑based contracts. Consult with grantees and other partners to maximize project impact and ensure grants meet strategic goals. Represent the foundation to key program‑related external constituents on committees related to your area of expertise. Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; address issues in a timely fashion. Qualifications Advanced degree or equivalent demonstrated experience, preferably in a related field. Experience working across education and workforce systems, with an understanding of how data and AI can support transitions, mobility, and outcomes across the learner‑to‑earner lifecycle. Deep experience and technical credibility in AI and data infrastructure, with a strong understanding of how systems are designed, integrated, and scaled across components and use cases. Experience with portable data and interoperable systems, and how they enable AI systems to leverage persistent, cross‑context memory. Track record of operating in emerging, ambiguous technical spaces, translating early architectures into concrete investments, partnerships, or products. Experience convening and aligning multi‑sector ecosystems, particularly where incentives are misaligned. Strong understanding of governance, privacy, and trust frameworks, and how they must be embedded into system design. Ability to assess where infrastructure should be standardized versus differentiated, and where fragmentation poses systemic risk. Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into actionable strategy and investment decisions across organizational boundaries. Proven ability to lead complex portfolios and influence strategy across teams and external partners. Understanding of how diverse communities and partners engage with AI and data systems in education and workforce contexts, and ability to incorporate their needs into infrastructure design and investment decisions. Additional Requirements Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located. The Foundation does not provide immigration‑related sponsorship. Employment contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Compensation Salary range: $190,100 to $294,700 USD. In Seattle or Washington D.C., the range is $209,100 to $324,100 USD. EEO & Inclusivity Statement We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value and commit to diversity, equity, and inclusion. All applicants and employees enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, disability, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity. #J-18808-Ljbffr Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation