Director, Accelerator, Global Health
Core
Lead the Gates Foundation's technology innovation team to conceive, design, test, and prepare novel platform technologies for global health missions, acting as an operator-founder to make high-conviction bets on science and technology.
Role type
Director, Accelerator (Strategy & Portfolio Management)
Builds
Novel platform technologies (gene-based interventions, AI-enabled drug discovery, etc.) and an ecosystem of biotech/pharma partnerships
Domain
Global Health / Biotechnology / Venture Capital
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | research | client delivery
Required skills
Serial entrepreneur/venture builder experience, strategic portfolio management, scientific risk assessment, team building and leadership, external ecosystem activation, stakeholder management, judgment under uncertainty
Preferred skills
Prior foundation/global health experience, board experience in biotech, accelerator program design, network of scientific founders and investors
Technologies
gene-based therapeutics, synthetic biology, AI-enabled drug discovery, novel diagnostics, biologics platforms
Responsibilities
Define and own the Accelerator's strategy and portfolio decisions; lead the Activator unit in sourcing and funding early-stage concepts; build and mentor a high-performing entrepreneurial team; cultivate partnerships with biotech, pharma, and VC leaders; report to senior foundation leadership
Seniority
Director, hands-on IC with strategic oversight