Senior Program Officer, Software & AI

Location: Seattle, WA

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 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.

The Maternal, Newborn, Child Nutrition & Health (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.

Your Role

The Senior Program Officer (SPO), Software & AI, will serve as a technical and strategic lead for software, digital health, and AI-enabled products across the MNCNH portfolio. The role will help translate high-priority health use cases into products and platforms that are technically sound, user-centered, interoperable, and deployable in low-resource settings. The portfolio may include clinical decision support, risk-stratification tools, AI-enabled applications, digital workflows, software that connects to medical devices, and other data- and software-driven approaches that improve individual-level care and health-system performance.

A flagship priority for this role is accelerating risk-stratification software layered on top of the foundation's AI-enabled hardware investments — spanning antenatal ultrasound, intrapartum monitoring, and postpartum/neonatal care — turning imaging and physiologic signal data into clinically actionable outputs. The SPO will hold grantmaking responsibility for a defined portfolio of investments and work closely with MNCNH technical leads, country teams, and partners to move promising concepts from prototype through validation, productization, integration, and scale.