Chief Program Officer

Role Overview

• Serve as a core member of the executive leadership team, shaping organizational strategy, culture, and enterprise-wide priorities.
• Hire and mentor a high-performing leadership team and staff, creating a highly mission-driven culture focused on moving with the scale, thoughtfulness, and urgency required.
• Ensure every program has a strong learning architecture: clear hypotheses, rigorous measurement, rapid iteration cycles, and honest reporting. Use cost-effectiveness evidence to guide resource allocation — scaling what earns it, cutting what doesn't.
• Develop and steward 2AI's open-sourced playbooks and insights — building durable field knowledge, not just running programs.
• Set and achieve ambitious program strategies for 2AI's Agriculture and Health portfolios — vision, priorities, delivery models, and expansion roadmap — in close collaboration with the CEO and regional and program leads. Achieve high-caliber reach and impact for hundreds of millions of people.
• Design and run fast, rigorous pilots. This includes strong measurement and feedback loops from day one, rapid iteration on what isn't working, and clear-eyed calls on what deserves to scale.
• Stay at the frontier of AI-enabled solutions for LMICs; actively tracking, testing, and integrating emerging tools and approaches. Bring intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn rapidly in a fast-moving space, translating what's technically possible into what's practically scalable for underserved populations.
• Partner with technical and research teams to ensure AI-powered approaches are grounded in rigorous evidence, adapted to local realities, and designed for sustainable delivery.
• Serve as 2AI's programmatic bridge among AI labs, global development actors, leading researchers, frontline implementers, and regional governments — translating credibly across all of these worlds.
• Shape technical offerings in partnership with leading AI labs, including adapting AI tools for underrepresented languages, low-bandwidth environments, and last-mile contexts.
• Support regional leaders — including our India Country Director — in navigating government relationships, adoption pathways, and policy enablement, providing strategic input and senior representation where needed.
• Lead efforts on fundraising — contributing to compelling narratives for major funders, leading grant development, and making the case for ambitious investment in the portfolio.
• Represent 2AI at senior levels in public and private forums, building 2AI's profile as the leading ecosystem coordinator for AI deployment in LMICs.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience building and leading programs in global health, international development, or adjacent fields, with a demonstrated track record of scaling complex initiatives to national or regional scale in low and middle income countries.
• A track record as a successful builder: you have built new programs and organizational functions in 3-5 countries, scaled programs nationwide across these countries, recruited and developed top talent, and cultivated a culture of rigor and urgency.
• Experience with AI clinical decision support, digital health, or AI in agriculture at the program design or deployment level is preferred.
• Experience in fundraising or major donor engagement — comfortable making the case to large HNW or institutional funders. You have raised $5M+ annually.
• Familiarity with how African and/or Asian governments operate, with enough experience to support regional leaders in navigating institutional processes.
• Experience bridging technical and programmatic worlds — global health delivery, market-shaping, technology for development, or related fields. Comfort translating between AI labs, researchers, delivery organizations, and government counterparts.
• Strong AI fluency: strong working knowledge of frontier AI tools and LLMs, and their practical application in low-resource settings. Active curiosity about frontier development.
• Existing relationships with major global health or agriculture funders, including bilateral donors, large foundations, and tech sector philanthropists a plus.

Benefits

• international health care
• HSA/FSA options
• life insurance
• disability coverage
• retirement plans with a matching component
• generous and flexible leave options
• other employee perks on a reimbursement basis