Managing Director (AiLO)

Who we are

ILO Group is a proudly women-owned education strategy and policy firm. We are a dedicated team of strategic partners and specialists who support school districts and states in executing on their biggest bets and highest-priority efforts. We work as members of our partners’ teams, operating side-by-side with the country’s leading educators, experts, and government partners.

Our work is as diverse as our partners’ ambitions are bold: we work across leadership development, comprehensive project management and implementation support, systems transformation, and curriculum design. We enable education leaders to be catalysts for enduring change that benefits their students, schools, and communities.

In addition to technical assistance to districts and states, our expert team provides the capacity and expertise to power difference-making partnerships of our own: Women Leading Ed, The Forum for Educational Leadership, and AiLO, our initiative focused on helping state and district leaders understand, implement, and responsibly use artificial intelligence to strengthen education systems.

About the Role

ILO Group is seeking an accomplished and strategic Managing Director to lead large-scale initiatives within AiLO, ILO Group ’s division dedicated to advancing the use of artificial intelligence in K–12 education systems. This role is ideal for a forward-thinking project leader who thrives on designing and implementing innovative, high-impact strategies that improve how education systems work and evolve. The Managing Director will guide the integration of emerging technologies into client projects and internal operations, connecting creative experimentation with practical, scalable solutions that strengthen impact. This individual will combine strategic vision with hands-on leadership, ensuring that ILO Group remains a trusted national partner in helping school systems harness AI responsibly and effectively. This role requires both strategic vision and executional excellence, someone who can think big, build from scratch, and deliver with precision. The Managing Director is expected to originate ideas, develop first drafts of strategic deliverables, synthesize complex information into compelling recommendations, and drive work from concept through execution, rather than simply oversee the work of others.

Why ILO Group

Our clients are state education agencies, school districts, and adjacent education organizations, including nonprofits and foundations, who are committed to implementing initiatives that improve student outcomes. In this role, you will work directly with these leaders and their teams to design and manage projects that integrate AI tools into teaching, learning, and operational systems.

We are looking for someone who wants to be close to the work, hold the pen on critical deliverables, test new ideas, and build solutions from the ground up. This role requires someone who can take a strategic direction and translate it into clear, compelling, high-quality work, moving comfortably from ambiguity to execution and from first draft to final product.

You will join a team of high-performing and collaborative individuals who value curiosity, innovation, and disciplined execution. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact challenges at the intersection of AI, education, and implementation.

Opportunity

Strategic and Organizational Leadership

- Lead a portfolio of client and internal projects within AiLO, ensuring excellence, clear communication, and measurable outcomes.

- Partner with senior leadership to develop and execute a strategic roadmap for the use of AI across ILO Group ’s service areas.

- Translate early-stage innovation into repeatable systems, processes, and tools that improve efficiency and impact.

- Lead the development and personally draft high stakes client-facing deliverables, including strategic decks, frameworks, recommendations, executive memos, and implemen