Chief Technology Officer

The Mellon Foundation (“Foundation”) is a not-for-profit, grant making organization that believes that the arts and humanities are where complex humanity is expressed, and believes that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom to be found there. Through Mellon’s grants, the Foundation seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. The Foundation makes grants in four core program areas – Higher Learning, Arts and Culture, Public Knowledge, and Humanities in Place – and through its signature Presidential Initiatives. Mellon seeks a Chief Technology Officer (“CTO”) to serve to serve the Foundation in a pivotal moment defined by Mellon’s increasingly important societal role as the largest private funder of arts and humanities, bold internal technology transformation initiatives, and the growing influence of AI.

Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (“EVP & COO”), the CTO will lead a dynamic, mission-oriented technology team responsible for the strategy, planning, coordination, management, architecture, security, and operation of all aspects of the foundation’s technology environment. Working in close partnership with leaders across the Foundation, the CTO will shape and drive comprehensive enterprise-wide technology, data, and AI strategies and advance the Foundation’s ongoing digital transformation efforts. Acting as an educator, collaborator, and capacity builder, the CTO will promote technology adoption, strengthen tech and data literacy, and connect technological capabilities with programmatic needs. The CTO will also be a service-oriented translator, acting as a key liaison between technology, leadership, and teams across the Foundation to ensure alignment, maximize impact, and best serve the grantmaking mission.

The Mellon Foundation has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist in this important recruitment. All inquiries, nominations, and applications for this opportunity should be directed in confidence below.

Andy Lee and Dan Rodas are leading this search with Amble Ryan and Madeline Fitzpatrick.