Chief Technology, AI Officer

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $250k - $277.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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U.S. Digital Response

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $25k Grant on 2021-12

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

U. S. Digital Response is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) public charity organization that offers rapid, free support to governments, nonprofits, and public entities to meet urgent public needs. They utilize a network of skilled volunteers to provide technological solutions, improve government response times, and enhance public service delivery. The organization focuses on areas such as election administration, federal grant management, unemployment insurance, and bridging the digital divide through modern technology and innovation. Their services include implementing lean and effective tech solutions, sharing best practices from state and local partners, and supporting governments from small towns to large states with nonpartisan tech strategies.

📋 Description

• Own the strategic vision and technical leadership for USDR’s digital transformation and AI approach • Provide product and technical leadership across USDR programs • Lead go-to-market strategy for shared tooling • Partner with product managers to grow reach and deepen impact with government partners • Shape and evolve offerings, including the Elections Administration Platform and AI tooling • Position, package, and scale products sustainably for government partners • Strengthen organization-wide service delivery and impact measurement • Serve as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders • Define responsible AI adoption and deployment inside USDR and in government tools and prototypes • Develop, hire, and lead a partner-facing AI team contingent on funding • Establish AI policies, tooling, guardrails, and learning culture • Partner with the Volunteers Team and programs on AI opportunities for recruiting and engaging volunteers • Set long-term technology infrastructure direction, policies, principles, and operations • Manage and partner with the Tools & Ops Lead on internal tools and adoption • Set platform and infrastructure approaches supporting government partners • Build technical fluency through documentation, training, and clear standards • Lead organization-wide priorities as a member of the Executive Team • Shape long-term strategy for platforms and infrastructure and assess emerging technologies • Manage organizational change initiatives • Participate in fundraising and development conversations as a technical representative • Travel 1–2 times per quarter for internal meetings and fundraising support • Directly lead the Tools & Ops Manager and Elections Program; potentially oversee a new AI Studio

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building, shipping, and bringing technology to market • Direct leadership of engineering, product, or digital service teams • Experience leading go-to-market for products, ideally with governments as the customer • Technical depth to contribute to architecture and go-to-market decisions • Ability to draft scopes of work and/or publish code if from an engineering background • Track record of managing across distinct functions • Experience building and scaling at least one team from the ground up, including recruiting and developing talent • Experience leading responsible AI adoption in real settings with constraints • Hands-on experience with AI strategy, responsible deployment, and/or AI governance • Understanding of AI’s transformative potential, limitations, and risks • Experience establishing security and quality standards, technical documentation, escalation processes, and technical fluency • Ability to represent technology decisions to program leaders, government partners, and funders in plain terms • Ability to lead and influence in a matrixed structure • Alignment with the USDR Community Oath and organizational values • Ability to perform the duties through any combination of education, experience, and measurable performance • Must reside in the United States • Must have and maintain active U.S. Work Authorization • New employees must meet employment eligibility verification requirements through E-Verify

🏖️ Benefits

• Full health, dental and vision benefits; USDR pays 100% of employee cost and 80% of dependent cost on most plans • 401K matching contribution: $1 per dollar contributed up to 3% of salary, and $0.50 per dollar contributed on 3–5% of salary • Full paid parental leave for up to 4 months • Equipment reimbursement up to $2,000 for a computer and peripheral devices • Work from Home allowance of $100 each month • $400 per year per employee for work-related learning and development • Fully remote work environment for US-based employees • Flexible schedules • Flexible time off policies • Supportive community focused on employee wellbeing and work-life balance