Consulting and StrategyFull-TimeSenior-level(6+ yrs)
Job Description
IDinsight is an international development organization that helps policymakers and managers make socially impactful decisions using rigorous evidence. We carefully tailor a wide range of analytical and quantitative tools to enable our clients to design better policies, rigorously test those ideas, and take informed action at scale to improve lives. The Associate Director, AI Transformation will be a key leader responsible for driving the organization's AI initiatives both internally and for external clients.
Responsibilities
Grow and Deliver External AI Consulting
Build IDinsight’s external AI Transformation Advisory practice into a sustainable, high-impact service line serving nonprofits, governments, and foundations.
Engagement leadership: Serve as the senior lead on external advisory engagements, owning client relationships, strategic direction, deliverable quality, and team allocation.
Client development: Identify, scope, and structure new AI advisory engagements.
Service design: Codify IDinsight’s AI transformation approach into repeatable frameworks, toolkits, and playbooks covering governance, change management, tool development, and benchmarking.
Training and workshops: Design and deliver executive workshops, workflow redesign sessions, and training programs that build lasting client capability.
Thought leadership: Represent IDinsight externally through blog posts, conference presentations, and sector conversations on AI transformation.
Lead internal AI Product Strategy
Own the product roadmap for IDinsight’s internal AI journey. Lead a team building custom AI solutions that change how IDinsight and our partners deliver core services.
Product vision and roadmap: Define and prioritize which custom AI products to build, determine make/buy decisions, ensure custom builds are reserved for problems that off-the-shelf tools can’t solve.
User-centered discovery: Drive user research and workflow audits to identify where AI can deliver step-change improvements across IDinsight’s business units and external partners.
Delivery oversight: Ensure products move from concept to deployed tools on quick timelines, apply agile principles, stop what doesn’t work and scale what does.
Measurement: Track improvements with hard metrics. Use data to drive strategy and execution decisions.
Qualifications and Requirements
We’re looking for someone who combines consulting expertise, product leadership, technical fluency, and entrepreneurial drive.
Commitment to IDinsight's values and mission.
8–15 years of professional experience, with significant time in consulting, digital transformation, product management, or technology implementation, ideally serving governments, foundations, or social sector organizations.
People management: Track record of building, managing, and developing high-performing teams that include both technical and non-technical roles.
Product leadership: Experience owning a product roadmap end-to-end, from user research and problem definition through build, launch, measurement, and iteration.
Client-facing consulting: Experience leading complex advisory engagements, managing senior client relationships, and delivering results against defined success metrics.
Technical fluency: Strong understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations, AI agent architectures, and the practical realities of deploying AI in organizations. Ability to credibly direct a technical team. (The role does not require production coding skills).
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the IDinsight portal on BambooHR by following the link: https://www.myjobmag.co.ke/apply-now/1194516
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online through the IDinsight portal on BambooHR. Click on the link below to apply: https://www.myjobmag.co.ke/apply-now/1194516. This will redirect you to the official application page at idinsight.bamboohr.com.
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