Deputy Director, Solutions, K-12

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The Team Education is one of the strongest drivers of economic opportunity, yet millions of learners in the United States encounter barriers that prevent them from reaching their full potential. The Gates Foundation's U.S. Program (USP) is focused on helping millions more learners earn credentials of value that lead to economic mobility by improving outcomes at the critical milestones that shape long-term success.

The K-12 Teaching and Learning team works collaboratively across USP to deliver on the foundation's efforts to help more students build strong mathematical foundations and successfully complete Algebra I by 9th grade—an important milestone that opens pathways to advanced learning, postsecondary success, and future careers. Building on decades of partnership with educators, researchers, school systems, and developers, the team invests in evidence-based instructional approaches, high-quality instructional materials, professional learning, tutoring, responsible AI-enabled tools, and implementation supports that help teachers accelerate learning and enable students to catch up, keep pace, and get ahead.

The team works across the education ecosystem to identify, develop, evaluate, and scale an integrated and coherent set of these solutions to improve mathematics teaching and learning for millions of students.

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Saturday, November 28, 2026

Your Role The Deputy Director, Solutions provides strategic leadership for the Foundation's portfolio of investments that develop, validate, and scale AI-enabled solutions to improve K-12 mathematics learning. The role is accountable for advancing four core objectives of the foundation's K-12 strategy: expanding the availability of AI-enabled products, enabling instructional systems that are coherent, strengthening the field’s focus on curriculum and product quality and performance, and increasing access to modern high school mathematics courses.

This leader will bring deep edtech product, technology, and market expertise to refine and evolve the foundation’s strategy and work with the team to shape and evaluate investments that enable the development, improvement, and scaling of partner solutions. This includes assessment of technology architectures, product roadmaps, evidence plans, implementation and partnership models, and business and go-to-market strategies – ensuring that these are aligned with the foundation’s student-learning goals.

Reporting to the Director of K-12 Teaching and Learning, the Deputy Director leads and develops a team with expertise spanning product development, market dynamics, AI-enabled learning, instructional design, and partnerships…