Gates Foundation Portfolio Lead—AI, 3-Year

The Gates Foundation seeks a Portfolio and Platform Lead to manage AI projects in maternal, newborn, and child health programs. The role involves portfolio management, user experience design, and stakeholder coordination. The position is a limited-term role for 36 months with relocation provided.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is hiring a Portfolio and Platform Lead to oversee the lifecycle of AI projects in maternal, newborn, and child health programs. The foundation works to eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity among women, newborns, and children in low-resource settings. With a multidisciplinary team, the foundation integrates local context into research, development, and scale, spanning the full development continuum from early discovery through implementation research and country introduction.

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.

• 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

The ideal candidate will have experience in portfolio management, user experience design, and stakeholder coordination, with a focus on AI projects in maternal, newborn, and child health programs.

• Experience in AI project management and portfolio management
• Knowledge of human-centered design principles and user experience design
• Strong stakeholder coordination and communication skills
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums
• Generous paid time off and paid family leave
• Foundation-paid retirement contribution
• Opportunities to engage in several employee communities

The Gates Foundation offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off and paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities.

Yes, relocation will be provided for the Portfolio and Platform Lead role.

The MNCNH team works to eliminate preventable mortality and morbidity among women, newborns, and children in low-resource settings.