Senior Director, AI Strategy, Innovation

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $156k - $188.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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KIPP Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

KIPP Foundation is a national network of public charter schools committed to providing K-12 education. The foundation focuses on education reform, aiming to equip students with the necessary skills and confidence to shape their futures and contribute positively to their communities. With a vision of 'Together, A Future Without Limits', KIPP strives to create an inclusive and empowering educational environment for all students.

📋 Description

• Develop and lead KIPP's multi-year, network-wide AI strategy aligned to One KIPP and the KIPP 2030 Plan • Serve as the AI expert and advisor to the KIPP Foundation, regions, Schools team, and Foundation leadership • Own KIPP's position on instructional AI and maintain the network's AI decision structure • Translate AI strategy for regional superintendents, development officers, and school leaders • Manage the AI pilot group and establish priorities and evidence standards • Design and administer measurement systems for AI pilots • Assess pilot quality, collect and analyze evidence, and produce pilot reports with recommendations • Partner with the Schools team and external researchers on comparison designs, subgroup breakouts, and data plans • Evaluate AI tools for efficacy, accessibility, bias and equity risk, implementation requirements, total cost of ownership, privacy, and security • Serve as final recommender on AI vendors, uses, and approaches • Make scale, continue, or stop recommendations based on pilot data • Identify, negotiate, and steward partnerships with research and development partners, vendors, and university researchers • Coordinate diligence with the Data and Technology team • Advise Foundation teams on effective internal AI use • Maintain a network-wide inventory of AI tools, costs, funding sources, outcomes, lessons learned, and privacy considerations • Advise regions on AI tool fit and evidence requirements while respecting regional authority • Broker multi-region pilots with shared challenges and evaluation designs • Build funder relationships and position KIPP to attract philanthropic support for AI priorities • Represent KIPP at AI education conferences, convenings, and forums • Provide a weekly ecosystem read to the CEO • Own the strategic narrative and evidence base for external development communications • Prepare AI Working Group updates for the KIPP Foundation Board • Carry pilot lessons into national guidance and the annual One KIPP planning cycle

🎯 Requirements

• Passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and ability to uphold KIPP’s core values • Demonstrated record of setting ambitious goals and achieving them consistently • Experience setting visions, developing agile project plans, navigating conflicts, and building knowledge-management systems • Ability to align goals and project plans with organizational priorities and use data to improve processes • Ability to define metrics and drive decisions and recommendations with data • Ability to articulate change through clear presentations and tailor communications for different audiences • Interpersonal, diplomatic, relationship-building, and communication skills • Deep, current expertise in AI tools and a working understanding of their capabilities and limitations • Ability to evaluate AI products for instructional goals, efficacy, accessibility, bias and equity risk, and student data privacy • Ability to design measurement systems showing whether an AI tool works and for which students • 7–10+ years of professional experience • 5+ years in K-12 education • Progressive leadership responsibility in complex, mission-driven organizations • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree preferred • Deep, current expertise in AI and its uses in education • Experience teaching or leading in schools serving students like those KIPP serves • Proven record leading strategy or major initiatives across a school system, charter management organization, or multi-region network • Experience aligning senior leaders and teams without direct authority • Experience designing measurement or evaluation systems for programs or pilots • Experience working with research partners on comparison designs, subgroup breakouts, and data plans • Experience turning evaluation results into clear recommendations • Experience negotiating and managing partnerships with vendors, research organizations, or universities • Working knowledge of student data privacy, FERPA, and multiple state regulatory environments • Experience building relationships with funders or securing philanthropic support preferred • Experience with budget ownership and vendor contract management a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 holidays • 18 days additional flexible PTO days, increasing to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+ • 100% paid parental leave • 100% coverage of the premium for employee medical/dental/vision plans • 75% coverage of the premium for employee + family medical/dental/vision plans • Fitness reimbursements • Discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions • Backup care support for children and adults/elders • Employee assistance program • 401K retirement plan with 4% match • Employer-sponsored legal plans • Life/disability insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Option to work from a remote office full-time • Up to 10% travel (up to 20 days per year)