Your work will drive the adoption of pioneering digital identity technologies while proactively mitigating risks and overcoming barriers to access, adoption, and meaningful use. A core aspect of your role will be advancing open ecosystems - including open-source code, standards, specifications, and protocols - to foster the development of digital public goods. These efforts will aim to create sustainable, adaptable, and future-ready digital technologies that improve delivery of products and services for low-income populations by lowering costs, increasing efficiencies, and opening new opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute strategy: Design and implement global strategies to scale digital identity technologies, focusing on increasing impact through use cases. Align these strategies with broader organizational goals and emerging trends in digital public infrastructure.
• Scale digital identity Systems: Lead efforts to scale and implement open-source and open-standard digital identity-based use cases that are inclusive, secure, and accessible for low-income, marginalized, and vulnerable populations.
• Promote digital public goods and sustainability: Champion the adoption of open-source solutions and governance models that ensure long-term sustainability, security, and global interoperability.
• Mitigate risks: Develop strategies to increase the privacy and security of digital infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity preparedness in low-resource environments, and address potential risks of exclusion, misuse, and wasteful digital investments.
• Make and manage investments: Develop a portfolio of grants, contracts, and other investments to achieve the programmatic goals of the DPI team’s strategy and work with partners to help ensure their success in delivering impact outcomes through these investments.
• Consult with grantees and other partners: Help improve project impact and ensure grants are meeting strategy goals; this may include conducting site visits, providing operational guidance, and convening meetings of key partners.
• Drive innovation: Identify and implement new use cases and emerging technologies that advance digital identity systems' impact, scalability, and adaptability.
• Build ecosystems for sustainability: Foster partnerships to strengthen global and local ecosystems for digital identity, emphasizing innovation, collaboration, and resilience.
• Advance user-centric solutions: Test, demonstrate, seed, and scale digital technologies designed with end users in mind, prioritizing inclusivity, accessibility, and responsiveness to local contexts.
• Engage collaborators: Build and manage relationships with governments, academia, civil society, multilateral organizations, and private sector innovators to co-develop impactful solutions and drive global adoption of open digital ecosystems.
• Build Capacity: Strengthen the capabilities of governments, local institutions, and organizations in low-resource geographies by providing technical assistance, fostering knowledge transfer, and supporting the development of local expertise to sustain and evolve digital identity systems.
• Travel: Ability to travel up to 30% of time, both domestic and international.

Requirements:

• A graduate degree in a relevant field such as engineering, computer science, and/or physical sciences that enables a deep technical understanding of digital technologies and their deployments, risks, economics, policy, and societal implications is required.
• This is a highly technical role and requires a strong scientific foundation.
• Proven experience in designing, prototyping, scaling, and deploying digital systems, with a strong emphasis on open-source platforms, open standards and protocols, cloud infrastructure, deployment of and AI/ML technologies. Private sector experience in leading large teams, projects, systems development and deployment efforts is highly preferred.
•  Professional or lived experience in low-income and lower-middle-income countries (ideally South/Southeast Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa) is strongly preferred, with a nuanced understanding of their unique challenges and opportunities.
• Ability to conceptualize, create, and implement strategies in complex, dynamic environments, integrating risk mitigation and sustainability.
• Demonstrated knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy technologies, and architecture best practices in digital infrastructure implementation.
• Proven success in building and managing partnerships across diverse collaborator groups, including governments, multilateral institutions, and private sector players.
• Strong commitment to equity, sustainability, and reducing barriers for underserved populations.
•  Ability to work in a matrixed organization and lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact, user-centered solutions.
•  Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences and build consensus.