Program Manager, Health Care, AI, Partnerships & Product Solutions for Sustainable Food Systems

Overview Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us. The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally. #TheAHALife is more than a company culture; it is our way of life. It embodies our commitment to work-life harmonization and is guided by our core values where our employees can thrive both personally and professionally. Discover why you will Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Valued at the American Heart Association by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, and at heart.jobs. The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Program Manager, AI, Partnerships & Product Solutions for Sustainable Food Systems. This position can be home-based within the U.S.  Background Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart is an innovation portfolio of the American Heart Association focused on transforming food systems into measurable drivers of human and planetary health. Within Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart, The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)® serves to build the scientific infrastructure to move food to a health solution. Specifically, The Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)® is a science-to-action effort of the Rockefeller Foundation that is managed by the American Heart Association. The PTFI offers standardized multi-omics tools, data, and training to a global ecosystem to characterize food quality and biomarkers of consumption and health. Our global ecosystem is mapping food quality based on diverse components, including macronutrients, micronutrients, and specialized metabolites, as well as their variation across food systems. PTFI’s vision is a world where stakeholders in food, agriculture and health are enabled to lead data-driven solutions that provide healthy food from sustainable food systems. https://foodperiodictable.org Responsibilities The Program Manager, AI, Partnerships & Product Solutions advances the translation and growth of Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart and the Periodic Table of Food Initiative (PTFI)® by developing opportunities that connect scientific capabilities, data, and innovation with funding, partnerships, practical applications, and business opportunities. Reporting to the Senior Lead for Product Innovation and Engagement, this role helps move strategic opportunities from concept toward implementation by securing resources, engaging external partners, and supporting the development of products and solutions with potential for impact, scale, and revenue generation. The Program Manager works across internal teams and external collaborators to identify and develop opportunities that advance the application of PTFI science and data across food, nutrition, and health. The role contributes to fundraising and revenue development through grant proposals, corporate engagement, and other strategic partnerships, while also supporting product development within the American Heart Association and with external partners. This includes assessing opportunities, developing proposals and concepts, coordinating cross-functional activities, and helping translate scientific and stakeholder needs into actionable product and partnership strategies. Data and artificial intelligence are central to the translation strategy of Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart and PTFI, enabling scientific knowledge and data to be transformed into actionable products, tools, and solutions for food and health. The Program Manager brings strong knowledge of AI and emerging technologies to support development of these applications, working cross-functionally with the PTFI team and across scientific, technical, product, and business teams to identify opportunities, translate needs into product requirements, coordinate expertise, and support the responsible and effective use of data and AI. The Program Manager serves as a cross-functional connector across Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart, the PTFI, and external partners, helping align resources, relationships, scientific and technological assets, and business strategy to advance innovative solutions for food and health. Responsibilities Funding, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships Identify and develop funding and revenue opportunities aligned with Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart priorities. Develop grant proposals, concept notes, presentations, and other materials for philanthropic, corporate, and other prospective funders and partners. Support cultivation and engagement of corporate and other strategic partners to advance funding, collaboration, and product opportunities. Assess prospective opportunities for alignment with scientific priorities, organizational capabilities, impact, and potential for sustainability and scale. Coordinate cross-functional input into proposals and partnership opportunities, including development of scopes, budgets, deliverables, and supporting materials. Contribute to development of new approaches for generating sustainable funding and revenue from PTFI science, data, products, and capabilities. Support partner stewardship, reporting, and communications for funded initiatives and strategic collaborations. Product Development & Translation Support development of products, tools, and solutions that translate PTFI science, data, and Sustainable Food Systems @ Heart capabilities into practical applications across food, nutrition, and health. Work cross-functionally with the PTFI team and other internal stak