Please Note: This role requires the ability to work on site 3 days per week per company policy.
The annual salary range for this role is $80,000-85,000 in San Francisco.
The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the international organization for public-private cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
The AI Centre drives innovation through the power of AI, data, and intelligence to reshape industries, economies, and societies - unlocking transformative potential in an equitable and human-centered way. As a forward-looking global platform for multistakeholder dialogue and collaboration, we examine how AI, data, and digital ecosystems converge to create value, while driving their responsible adoption and real-world impact through a global community.
Why we are recruiting
To shape the impact of AI and digital technologies on industries, regions, and society, as well as their governance, the World Economic Forum has launched the AI Governance Alliance (AIGA). The Alliance aims to provide guidance on the responsible design, development, adoption, deployment, and governance of AI.
We are seeking an AI Technology and Innovation Specialist in our San Francisco office to help bring technical solutions to business problems and communicating the value to non-technical colleagues for our AI technology and innovation initiatives as part of the Alliance.
This role requires an understanding of recent developments in AI, particularly in domains such as AI agents and large language models, along with insight into how AI-first approaches are driving enterprise transformations and entrepreneurial innovation. The role is associated with an interest in building innovative solutions to drive knowledge dissemination and engagement with a broad range of stakeholders.
The Specialist will have a sense of how innovative solutions can be built to help service high-impact deliverables that demonstrate recent advancements in AI. Ideally, the Specialist will have some experience in interactive dashboards, data visualization, data storytelling, along with experience driving digital community engagement.
Reporting lines and interactions
The Specialist will collaborate closely with technology practice leads across the AI Centre and the AI Governance Alliance in particular. The Specialist will interact with a variety of internal and external stakeholders that are involved in initiatives under the AI Governance Alliance. Community building, stakeholder management and delivery of reports and frameworks are considered key aspects of the role. The role will have the opportunity at times to engage with global leaders driving meaningful change associated with frontier innovation in AI technology.
Duties and Responsibilities
Stakeholder Engagement
- Contribute to overseeing community management, fostering meaningful engagement and promoting diversity of perspectives in discussions and initiatives.
- Hands on involvement creating innovative products and solutions that rethink community engagement, working with internal teams and vendors to test new approaches and products.
- Connect regularly with community members to ensure the initiative drives relevant impact to all stakeholders engaged as well as the broader audience
- Contribute to cultivating and maintaining strategic partnerships with key organizations, governments, AI startups, and industry leaders.
- Help the Initiatives Lead manage and animate multistakeholder communities by communicating updates regularly, co-lead working group meetings, and onboarding the right stakeholders.
Technology and Innovation
- Support the development and design of AI innovation programs and digital knowledge platforms, from research and community building to developing initiatives associated with technology- and industry-driven transformation.
- Contribute to advocacy of AI usage, developing compelling narratives and training materials, and supporting internal initiatives that encourage adoption across technical and non-technical projects.
- Analyze technical challenges and synthesize findings into actionable strategies and deliverables.
- Collaborate with the Forum’s start-up community to build impactful innovation programs.
- Contribute to producing reports and other outputs that highlight key developments of advanced AI systems, such as AI agents.
- Demonstrate an ability to make complex findings and insights collected by AIGA’s work widely accessible leveraging both quantitative and qualitative reports
Team and Organization
- Collaborate across working groups and teams to align objectives and enhance synergies between initiatives.
- Support Technology and Innovation workstreams from governance and engagement to project documentation and execution, including project plans and status reports.
- Coordinate meetings, managing logistical, content-related, and communication aspects.
- Prepare and organize key materials, including pre-reads, meeting summaries, and technical recommendations.
- Develop and maintain initiative plans and timelines, tracking progress and ensuring key milestones are met.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as computer science, software development, data science or a related discipline is required along with industry and business acumen. A master’s degree in artificial intelligence or a similar field is preferred.
- Two years’ of experience in roles related to AI, innovation, or product/program design, with a preference for candidates who have worked with digital products, databases, and interactive dashboards or engagement solutions.
- Proven ability to analyze complex technical challenges and translate findings into actionable strategies, plans, and deliverables.
- Strong research, writing, and presentation skills.
- Experience in community management and engaging with stakeholders across industries, cultures, and seniority levels.
- Experience in project management, including developing timelines, tracking milestones, and coordinating cross-functional teams.
- Experience thriving in multicultural, highly collaborative work environments that operate globally and in hybrid formats.
- Results driven, proactive, self-starter, and team player.
- Excellent organizational skills: able to juggle multiple tasks, and assignments simultaneously and can deliver in ambiguous self-starter environments and derive energy from high-pressure work settings.
- Excellent command of spoken and written English. Proficiency in other languages is a plus.
- Proficiency in salesforce environments is preferred.
Why work at the Forum:
The Forum believes that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to improve the state of the world by building awareness and cooperation, shaping mindsets and agendas, and driving collective action. Join us and become a driver for positive change!