Chief Technology Officer

March 21

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The Global Disinformation Index

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Our mission is to restore trust in the media by providing real-time automated risk ratings of the world’s media sites.

disinformation • risk ratings • artificial intelligence • data science • advertising

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Description

• Provide technical leadership across the organisation. • Interface between tech team and leadership team, board of directors, on all GDI technical products, intelligence and research activities. • Represent GDI technical capabilities/support commercial partnerships lead to licensees and other external constituencies (funders, policymakers, media when necessary, etc.). • Drive & Support: provide the oversight to ensure all GDI technical products and infrastructure are fit for purpose, robust and scalable, and secure. • Implement innovative solutions while optimizing existing systems, applications, and information. • Making recommendations and presenting business cases for technology initiatives and improvements. • Consulting on annual operating and capital budgets for purchasing, staffing and technology operations. • Manage and develop all direct reports, provide final decision-making authority over technical products and teams. • Support fundraising applications by translating organizational deliverables into clear technical specifications with LoE estimates and resource requirements. • Oversee product and process management, including roadmap development and deconfliction, to ensure the team has resources necessary to support organizational goals and deliverables. • Innovate: Drive tech strategy, new product and feature development to ensure GDI continues to find new ways to demonetize harmful online disinformation. • Ensure the implementation and enforcement of the highest technology standards. • Learn: Stay apprised of the latest tech developments in the space. • Products: GDI builds well-regarded products that: • Accurately assess the risk of disinformation according to GDI’s adversarial narrative framework. • Provide risk data to ad tech companies enabling them to monetize content in accordance with their policies. • Combine the relative strengths of human intelligence analysts and artificial intelligence. • Can be commercially licensed to provide enduring revenue to support the work of the GDI. • Team: Act as a role model of the 'GDI Behaviours' for the technology and intelligence team at all times (Positivity, Responsibility, Trustworthy, Respect): • Oversee the Data Science, Engineers, DevOps and Product functions. • Maintain an active recruiting pipeline, ensuring all hires match job descriptions identified

Requirements

• Senior: 5-10 years of experience in a technical position collaborating with teams of data scientists, engineers and product managers. • Great people manager: Leadership roles requiring the management of significant teams from different technical disciplines. • Machine learning expert: An aptitude for technology innovation, especially in advanced machine learning fields. Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially large language models (LLMs) is preferred. • OSINT understanding: experience or close collaboration with teams that use OSINT techniques to investigate the internet information landscape. • Efficiency/scalability focus: Experience in process improvement successes, strong financial acumen. • Technical fluency in python, system administration, data science tools, and cloud platforms. • Excellent presentation, writing, and research skills. • Tolerance for ambiguity and frequent pivots. • Skills to operate effectively in a mission-driven, cash-constrained non-profit. • Preferred: Profes

Benefits

• Competitive salary • Opportunity to work towards a world free of disinformation and its harms • Collaborative and supportive team environment • Opportunity to lead global technology platform development