Senior Grant Administrator, Mass General Brigham AI Center

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Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

Job Summary

Mass General Brigham AI is the bridge between academic research and product development—a center composed of clinicians, data scientists, product managers, technical project managers, and software engineers that translates research and innovation into clinical practice. The center houses end-to-end product development infrastructure, including world-class compute capabilities, and its portfolio spans AI/ML-enabled solutions across diagnostics, hospital operations, and specialty services. Mass General Brigham is one of the nation’s leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

This center sits at an unusual intersection. It carries the sponsored-research obligations of an academic institution—federal grants, foundation awards, and subawards across MGH, BWH, and external collaborators—alongside the commercial-facing dynamics of a product organization, including industry co-development agreements, licensing relationships through MGB Innovation, milestone-based contracts, and AI/ML compute cost structures. The finance and grants function for this center therefore requires someone who can operate fluently in both worlds.

The Senior Grants Administrator is a combined leadership role responsible for the full financial lifecycle of the AI Center—operating budget management, multi-year forecasting, and financial reporting—together with end-