About the Role

This role functions as a program lead within IAA, owning a key portfolio of animal welfare technologies and driving their development and adoption.

Inspired by the DARPA program manager model, you will operate with high autonomy—identifying promising technologies, diagnosing bottlenecks, and executing interventions to achieve real-world impact.

This is a full-time, remote role (US-based).

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with researchers, companies, investors, and industry stakeholders
• Conduct deep research into animal health and welfare technologies, identifying gaps and opportunities
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate research and analysis
• Design and execute high-impact interventions (grants, competitions, investments, market-shaping initiatives)
• Support grantees and partners in achieving key milestones
• Identify and develop new partnerships and funding opportunities

Candidate Profile

• Strong alignment with IAA’s mission and theory of change
• Excellent research and analytical capabilities
• Creative problem-solving and strategic thinking
• Ability to quickly understand new, complex domains
• Track record of high achievement (research, entrepreneurship, or similar)

Working Style

• Entrepreneurial and highly autonomous
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building structure from scratch
• Willing to take on a broad range of tasks beyond formal scope
• Iterative mindset: experiment, learn, and adapt rapidly

About the Organisation

Innovate Animal Ag is a nonprofit think tank that promotes technology as a practical way to solve the biggest challenges in farmed animal welfare. They work collaboratively with farmers and agribusiness to develop and implement cutting edge technologies in animal agriculture that can directly help animals. Their first focus area has been bringing in-ovo sexing into the US, to stop the culling of hundreds of millions of male chicks each year. Directly because of their work, the first US egg producer recently announced in the New York Times they would begin using the technology in 2025.