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About the Role

Robin Hood seeks a Managing Director, AI for Impact to lead the organization's strategy for leveraging Artificial Intelligence to accelerate solutions and scale effective approaches for lifting New Yorkers out of poverty. This new role requires strong AI fluency and technology product experience to identify strategic opportunities while mitigating risks associated with AI's potential to deepen inequality. The position will strengthen AI grantmaking, build partnerships, and serve as a senior advisor on AI strategy, overseeing the internal venture studio, Blue Ridge Labs.

Responsibilities

Own Robin Hood's strategy for supporting AI that advances economic mobility.
Identify where AI and digital tools can help more New Yorkers reach mobility milestones.
Identify where AI disruptions risk causing harm.
Engage across Program teams, Management Acceleration, and Public Policy to ensure AI-related grantmaking is coordinated, evidence-based, and consistent with Robin Hood's standards.
Prioritize demands on attention to guard against resources flowing to work lacking real potential to help low-income communities.
Navigate the tensions inherent in AI strategy, weighing potential benefits against risks.
Serve as a credible, senior presence in the civic and public-interest technology world.
Build and steward relationships with technologists, funders, tech firms, government, and mission-driven organizations.
Proactively develop and stay involved in all of Robin Hood's AI-related strategy and partnerships.
Team with technology companies, co-funders, and donors.
Work closely across programmatic and development teams to support fundraising efforts.
Cultivate the ecosystem by bringing people together through communities of practice and larger convenings.
Oversee Blue Ridge Labs, setting direction and aligning its work with Robin Hood's broader AI strategy.
Partner closely with IT and Business Intelligence teams to ensure consistent AI approaches internally and externally.
Serve as a strategic counterpart to technology teams on AI strategy.
Curate an external advisory bench of tech specialists.
Support decision-making for AI-related grants across Program & Impact teams.
Put Robin Hood's Responsible AI principles into practice.
Ensure the perspectives of people with lived experience of poverty shape technology solutions.
Capture and disseminate lessons learned to help Robin Hood and the broader field adopt AI ethically and effectively.

Requirements

Delivery experience in public-interest or civic technology.
Experience building, shipping, or leading technology work in a mission-driven, government, or community context.
Understanding of the translation required between technologists and service providers/recipients.
Understanding of the constrained-resource reality of nonprofits.
Standing and relationships in the civic-tech ecosystem.
AI and technology fluency; native use of AI tools.
Conversant enough in modern AI systems to assess opportunities realistically.
Strong instincts for what's worth building and how to connect technology's potential to Robin Hood’s mission.
Judgment about impact; ability to recognize meaningful social-impact opportunities.
Comfort with evidence, measurement, and asking whether an intervention actually helps.
Ability to lead through influence and management.
Commitment to equity and to the communities served.
Integrative, systems-level thinking.
Grantmaking or philanthropy fluency is a plus.

Skills

AI fluency
Technology product experience
Strategic thinking
Relationship building
Partnership development
Grantmaking
Venture studio oversight
Public-interest technology
Civic technology
AI strategy
Technology assessment
Leadership
Influence
Systems thinking
Equity
Responsible AI principles

Location

New York City

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$190,000 - $240,000 plus bonus potential

Benefits

Medical insurance
Employer-paid covered dental and vision insurance
Employer-paid life and long-term disability insurance
Employer-paid Paid Family Leave premiums
403(b) retirement plan with employer match
12% employer contribution to a 401(a) retirement plan
Employer contributions to Health Spending Account
Pre-tax flexible spending account (FSA) for health care and dependent care expenses
20 days of accrued Paid Time Off
Separate Sick and Safe Leave bank
Paid Parental Leave
NYS Paid Family Leave

About the Company

Robin Hood is a 501(c)(3) public charity founded in 1988 focused on lifting New Yorkers permanently out of poverty.
It convenes diverse stakeholders to develop and advance programs and policies for economic mobility.
Robin Hood invests in best-in-class organizations providing vital services like legal aid, housing, workforce development, and education.
Its programs often serve as models for replication nationwide.
100% of donations go directly to organizations helping New Yorkers due to the Board covering administrative costs.
Robin Hood's metrics-based approach is a national standard for charity evaluation.
It supports community partners with financial and strategic assistance.
Robin Hood collaborates with government to build program and policy innovations and advance public policies that expand economic opportunity.
The organization acts as a catalyzing force for economic mobility in New York City and beyond.
Robin Hood's approach focuses on results, building transformative institutions, driving innovation, and scaling what works.

Equal Opportunity

Robin Hood is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, arrest or conviction record, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Applicants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.