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Our Values
1. Stay close to the work
Whether in education, health, or the criminal justice system - we know the people most affected by the issues should help drive the solutions. Our teams work closely with educators and parents, scientists, and researchers, advocates, and community leaders to ensure the voices of system-impacted communities are heard every step of the way.
“It’s been my experience, personally and professionally, that the people impacted by problems are often best positioned to develop solutions, when equipped with the right resources. Through CZI, I’m humbled to support local leaders and organizations serving the most vulnerable in their communities.”
2. Build for the long term
Though near-term wins are critical, it will take a new level of commitment and dedication to make lasting, long-term change. We take the long view and know that breakthroughs can often take decades.
“Science is all about tackling really hard problems. What excites me about CZI is what we’re doing to bring new people and ideas to the table, bringing together scientists, physicians, engineers, and patients into new types of collaborative structures, empowering them to do their most inspired work.”
3. Learn fast
Though we focus on building for the long-term, we also move quickly. We roll up our sleeves and put in the work, because we understand the urgency of the challenges our partners take on. We experiment, iterate, reflect — and then try again if need be.
“As a researcher on the education team, I regularly spend time with teachers and school leaders, so I can learn directly from them. Their feedback helps us iterate toward a better product and learning experience for everyone.”
4. Be daring and humble
We have big ideas about the future we’re working toward, but they can only be realized by placing the perspectives and experiences of the communities we serve first. Our aim is to help accelerate their work and develop new technologies and tools that will help them reach their goals even faster.
“Confronting systemic issues of inequity inherent in our criminal justice system requires daring. But we don’t know the answers. Progress is only possible, if we invest in those most impacted by the system, to be the agents of change. I’m proud to have the opportunity to serve communities with CZI.”
5. Collaboration is the tool
Good things happen when people from different backgrounds work together -- across labs, disciplines, and even political divides. We bring together experts, advocates, engineers, and change-makers to collaborate and make sure ideas don’t stay siloed.
“In science, high quality references have long-term benefits. I work on the Human Cell Atlas, a fundamental reference for human cell biology that will help doctors and scientists gain new insights into disease. As a biologist, I’m proud to contribute to a project that will hopefully advance science for years to come.”
Why CZI?
"At CZI, I don’t have to make the choice between optimizing for career growth and working on something I believe in.”
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We believe that the strongest teams and best thinking are defined by the diversity of voices at the table — including those from historically marginalized groups. We are committed to fair treatment and equal access to opportunity for all CZI team members, and to maintaining a workplace where everyone feels welcomed, respected, supported, and valued.
Benefits for the Whole You
We’re thankful to have an incredible team behind our work. To honor their commitment, we offer a wide range of benefits to support the people who make possible all that we do. We want every employee to feel supported as a “whole person” by CZI, so they can: take care of themselves and their loved ones, live a life of service and grow their career.
Rejuvenate
Generous Time Off
Ease Back from Parental Leave
Feed Your Brain
Professional Development Allowance
On-demand Learning (LinkedIn Learning)
Get Financially Fit
401(k) Retirement Plan
Commuter Benefits
Whole You Fund
Child, Adult, and Elder Care Support
(Bright Horizons)
Be Well
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
Fitness Reimbursement Program
Mental Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Accounts
Short and Long-term Disability Plans
Life and AD&D Insurance
Paid Bereavement Time Off
Family Forming Benefits
Rejuvenate
Generous Time Off
• Paid holidays • Paid vacation time off • Paid sick time off • Paid jury duty time off • Paid parental leave • Paid pregnancy disability leave • Paid family care leave • Paid medical leave
Ease Back from Parental Leave
Our parental leave allows new parents returning to work the option of working part-time for up to four weeks after their initial return to work.
Live The Mission
Matching Gift Program
CZI matches qualified donations to 501(c)(3) organizations by employees 1:1 up to an annual maximum amount.
Life of Service Gifts
CZI Life of Service Gifts are awarded to employees to 'live the mission' and support the causes closest to them. These gifts are awarded following key anniversaries. Employees may direct the gift to the 501(c)(3) of their choice in their name.
Feed Your Brain
Professional Development Allowance
To support employees in growing their skills, knowledge, and abilities, CZI provides a professional development allowance to reimburse employees for eligible professional development expenses.
On-demand Learning (LinkedIn Learning)
CZI provides unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, an on-demand learning solution designed to help employees gain new skills and advance their career.
Get Financially Fit
401(k) Retirement Plan
CZI provides a generous match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
Commuter Benefits
Pre-tax transit and parking benefits, annual Caltrain passes subsidized for employees who take Caltrain to work once or more per week and free onsite parking at our buildings.
Whole You Fund
Annual benefit for employees that can be used in the most meaningful way for them and their family such as housing, student loan repayment, childcare, commuter costs, or other life needs.
Child, Adult, and Elder Care Support
(Bright Horizons)
Access to emergency back-up child care and adult and elder care. Additional benefits include preferred enrollment at select centers and resources to find sitters and pet care.
Be Well
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
CZI provides 100% of the premium cost for employees and 75% of the premium cost for dependent coverage for medical, dental and vision coverage.
Fitness Reimbursement Program
CZI offers a monthly reimbursement for employee's physical fitness costs (i.e. gym memberships, fitness classes).
Mental Wellness Benefits
Coaching and therapy care options include stress management, financial wellness, relationships, parenting transitions, career advice, inclusion and belonging, and other life challenges.
Flexible Spending Accounts
Healthcare FSA and Dependent Care FSA available. Flexible spending accounts provide pre-tax savings on eligible expenses on healthcare and dependent care for employees and their families.
Short and Long-term Disability Plans
Disability benefits protect employees and their families by providing a portion of their income during times when they are unable to work.
Life and AD&D Insurance
Life insurance designed to protect employees and their families against loss of income due to accidental death.
Paid Bereavement Time Off
Bereavement benefits are provided to attend a funeral and grieve for a family member or loved one.
Family Forming Benefits
We help fund select infertility, surrogacy and adoption services.
Candidate Resources
We are striving to make sure every candidate who interviews remotely has the best experience possible. To support you through each step of your remote hiring journey, we’ve created a series of tips and best practices to help you prepare and learn all about work life at CZI!
Career Opportunities
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Director of Internal Communications
Initiative / Team Central |
You will be responsible for overseeing an internal communications program that supports a strong, vibrant culture across the organization and fosters a clear understanding of CZI’s mission and goals - helping to ensure CZI-ers are informed, engaged and inspired every day.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Brand & Communications |
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Staff Data Scientist, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will build metrics, visualizations, dashboards, provide data insight, product expertise, and a strategic perspective to partners throughout the organization.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Data |
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Staff Communications Designer, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will create visually stunning marketing and communications materials for two products on the Education team: Along and the Summit Learning Platform.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Design |
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User Experience Researcher, Science
Initiative / Team Science |
You will conduct mixed-methods research to better understand the needs of scientific and public health communities to foster faster-paced and more open, collaborative scientific discovery, and health delivery.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science Design |
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Senior Manager, Inclusive Design, Education
Initiative / Team Education |
You will drive a workstream dedicated building and refining the enabling conditions needed for the adoption and implementation of inclusive design practices across our organization. While this role principally focuses on internal efforts (e.g. participatory budgeting, audits), its work impacts our major external efforts - grantmaking and product development.
The major functions of this role are:
Solving operational and organizational challenges by prototyping and testing new inclusive ideas and ways of operating
Modeling and building the capacity of individuals and teams around inclusive design
Supporting inclusive design team operations
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Redwood City, CA |
Education Education Programs |
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Senior Manager, Practice Implementation
Initiative / Team Education |
You will establish organizational and operating strategy and parameters for implementation projects, shape proposals with external partners to achieve practice goals, track the progress of such projects and problem-solve around challenges, and, more generally, build lasting relationships with diverse external agencies, nonprofits, programs, and service providers around these priorities. You will engage actively in multiple complex projects with external stakeholders for the duration of the projects (months or years), and will partner internally with CZI Education team members to drive projects forward.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education Education Programs |
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Data Engineer
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will help ingest, coordinate and use data to help students in our program continue to grow and set them up for a lifetime of success.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Engineering |
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Senior Fullstack Engineer, IDseq, Science
Initiative / Team Science, Technology |
You will have the opportunity to build out our Infectious Disease Sequencing tool, a collaboration between CZI and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science, Technology Engineering |
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Senior Fullstack Engineer, Single Cell, Science
Initiative / Team Science, Technology |
You will work as a full stack engineer on a multidisciplinary team to build open source interactive tools for biologists and physicians interested in using high dimensional biological data to study disease mechanisms.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science, Technology Engineering |
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Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure
Initiative / Team Technology |
You will work alongside Software Engineers to ensure that we're designing and operating our systems with scalability and reliability in mind. Members of the Infrastructure organization have an impact on all of our initiatives by tackling technology problems which impact multiple engineering teams.
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Redwood City, CA |
Technology Engineering |
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Senior Software Engineer, Curriculum Adoption, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will work full-stack to build scalable, adaptable server and client side code to help teachers facilitate learning and students build skills and knowledge through curriculum.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Engineering |
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Senior Software Engineer, IDseq, Science
Initiative / Team Science, Technology |
You will have the opportunity to build out our Infectious Disease Sequencing tool, a collaboration between CZI and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science, Technology Engineering |
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Senior Software Engineer, Trust, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will design and improve privacy & security infrastructure to protect user data, including user access control for multiple systems.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Engineering |
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Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure
Initiative / Team Technology |
You will work alongside Software Engineers to ensure that we're designing and operating our systems with scalability and reliability in mind. Members of the Infrastructure organization have an impact on all of our initiatives by tackling technology problems which impact multiple engineering teams.
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Redwood City, Ca |
Technology Engineering |
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Software Engineer, Along, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will work across the web stack, with an emphasis on client-side web development, to build scalable and engaging experiences.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Engineering |
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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will have the opportunity to establish a technical leadership role on the Education's Infrastructure team. You'll design, build, and maintain the foundational backend infrastructure that supports Education’s core products.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Engineering |
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Staff Software Engineer, Notebooks, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will work full-stack and collaborate closely with a cross-functional team to develop, iterate on, and evolve the Notebooks product to improve teacher instruction and student learning.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Engineering |
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Finance Manager
Initiative / Team Central |
You will lead forecasting and performance metrics processes, and provide analytical/modeling support to executive leadership and their teams across our initiatives.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Finance |
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Senior Associate, Investments
Initiative / Team Central |
You will participate in the investment due diligence and monitoring of existing and prospective managers across Private Equity and Real Estate.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Investments |
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Contracts Manager (Inbound)
Initiative / Team Central |
You will be an integral member of the CZI Contracts Team, a part of CZI’s growing Legal and Grants Management team, focused on contracts management and negotiation. You will manage, administer and execute contracts critical to the success of our program objectives and operational goals. In addition to working with educators, scientists, and change-makers to help CZI achieve its ambitious mission, you will support contract owners in the initiatives and central functions with end-to-end contracts management and provide training, draft documentation, and improve processes regarding contracts and procurement for internal clients. You will report to the Lead Commercial Counsel.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Legal and Grants |
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Director of Workplace and Facilities
Initiative / Team Central |
You will be responsible for crafting an excellent workplace experience from end to end for CZI’s employees and guests. You will own and lead all aspects of day-to-day operations, programs, and on-site events, building operations, maintenance and real estate initiatives.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Operations |
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Program and Operations Associate, DEI
Initiative / Team Central |
You will work closely with CZI’s Head of Diversity Equity and Inclusion to help strengthen the effectiveness and impact of the Head of DEI, as well as the DEI team through strong project management, execution of grants / contracts and administrative support, as needed.
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Central Operations |
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Head of People
Initiative / Team Central |
You will lead CZI's People function and strategy; advancing programs in Employee Engagement & Experience, Organisational Design, Learning & Development, Recruiting, Performance Management, Onboarding, Total Rewards and Retention.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central People |
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People Business Partner
Initiative / Team Central |
You will support the VP, People and organizational leaders to execute our strategy around hiring, developing, and engaging our teams working to create that future.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central People |
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Technical Sourcer
Initiative / Team Central |
You will identify and engage technical talent through creative sourcing strategies in order to build and scale our Technical team at CZI.
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Redwood City, California |
Central People |
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Product Applications Scientist, Imaging, Science
Initiative / Team Science |
You will represent the voice of our scientific users, both researchers and bioimage analysts, to the rest of the team and ensure that the community tools we are contributing to meet our users bioimaging needs.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science Product |
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Product Manager, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will lead a core product area with a cross-functional team of engineering, design, research, data science, learning science, and operations.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Product |
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Data Manager, Single-Cell Biology, Science
Initiative / Team Science |
You will join the Single-Cell Biology program, which currently supports over 200 grantees around the world. As a Data Manager with experience in in biological data formats, biological data analysis, and project leadership.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Remote) |
Science Science Programs |
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Program Associate, Science in Society
Initiative / Team Science |
You will apply advanced knowledge and in-depth evaluation to execute efforts that aim to boost capacity of the scientific enterprise for engaging ethically, equitably, and effectively with communities, civic society and policy makers, and to advance equity, diversity and inclusion across the Science in Society programmatic portfolio.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science Science Programs |
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Science Program Manager, Diversity in Science
Initiative / Team Science |
You will support grantmaking in impactful basic biomedical science, with the specific goal of reducing disparities in academic science and in biomedicine.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science Science Programs |
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Technical Program Manager, Grantee Support
Initiative / Team Technology |
You will be responsible for managing an IT, Infra and Security program for our Grantees and Partnership initiatives. You'll be part consultant, part expert, and part program manager, finding the perfect balance to support the grantees and partnerships.
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Redwood City, CA |
Technology Technical Program Management |
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Technical Program Manager, Product Security
Initiative / Team Technology |
You will be responsible for managing the security program for one or more of our initiatives, in addition to helping lead security initiatives which cut across CZI. You'll be part consultant, part security expert, and part program manager, finding the perfect balance to support the teams you work with.
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Redwood City, CA |
Technology Technical Program Management |
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Email Campaign Manager, Brand & Communications, Central
Initiative / Team Technology |
You will be responsible for designing, building, integrating, and maintaining systems used across the organization, playing a critical role in enabling CZI to increasingly scale engagement and successfully deliver on our shared strategic goals across the initiatives within Education, Justice & Opportunity, and Science.
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Redwood City, CA |
Technology Technology Operations |