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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 |
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Head of Brand and Communications
Initiative / Team Central |
You will lead overall communications and brand strategy for a high-profile philanthropic organization -- including leading media relations, external and internal communications, brand storytelling and creative campaigns, and all digital campaigns and presence (web, social media, email etc).
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Central Brand & Communications |
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Director of Policy and Advocacy, Housing Affordability
Initiative / Team Community |
You will partner with key internal and external stakeholders to build out project plans, help the team execute on program strategy, support the Director of Housing Affordability through partnership and strategic advising and help scope and execute grants and projects to deliver against team priorities.
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Community Community |
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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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Senior Product Designer, Education
Initiative / Team Education |
You will create visually stunning products as a Product Designer for our Summit Learning Team.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education Design |
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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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Senior Manager, Measurement (Grantmaking)
Initiative / Team Education |
You will establish organizational and operating strategy and parameters for measurement projects, shape proposals with external partners to achieve measurement goals, supervise the progress of such projects and problem-solve around challenges, and, more generally, build lasting links with diverse external educational and research organizations around these priorities.
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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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Director of Engineering, Science
Initiative / Team Science, Technology |
You will lay the foundation for our Science engineering team focused on creating technology products to support our mission in Science. In this position, you will work with colleagues from a variety of different roles across the company as well as external partners, including scientists, researchers, and policy makers. You will work with these stakeholders to conceptualize and define engineering projects and goals, and you will build and deploy software to accomplish these goals.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science, Technology Engineering |
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Frontend Engineer, Infrastructure, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will design, build, and maintain frontend infrastructure that improves performance and reliability through tooling, build systems, and shared components.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Engineering |
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Senior Data Engineer, Meta, Science
Initiative / Team Science |
You will work as a Data Engineer in Meta's Knowledge Graph Engineering Team (KGE) that builds and supports meta.org, enabling researchers to access our comprehensive knowledge graph of scientific research, with features and tools, to help them discover new research and stay up to date.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science Engineering |
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Senior Frontend Engineer, Meta, Science
Initiative / Team Science, Technology |
You will work as a frontend engineer - designing, building, analyzing and improving the efficiency, stability, and resiliency of the Meta application.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science, 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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Software Engineer, Onboarding & Training, Education
Initiative / Team Education, Technology |
You will work full-stack with a cross-functional team of design, PM, data science, product specialists, former educators, and user researchers to design and build new features to support our professional development efforts.
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Redwood City, CA |
Education, Technology Engineering |
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Staff Software Engineer, Education (Along)
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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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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Manager, IT Support, Infrastructure & Security
Initiative / Team Central |
You will be responsible for ensuring that everyone at CZI receives technical and non-technical support through outstanding customer service, thorough problem solving, and timeliness. To be successful, this person must show initiative, be motivated by technology and customer service, have great attention to detail and experience leading support teams driven by data.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central IT |
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Technical Program Manager, Product Security, Information Security
Initiative / Team Technology |
You will partner with engineering and product teams in evaluating, managing, and addressing security risks. In this role, you will be responsible for leading security programs across each of our initiatives, in addition to helping lead security initiatives which cut across CZI. You will also be part of our vendor and partner security program, helping to evaluate and improve the security of our vendors and partners. You'll be part consultant, part security specialist, and part program manager, finding the perfect balance to support the teams you work with.
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Redwood City, CA |
Technology Infrastructure & Security |
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Senior Associate, Investment Operations
Initiative / Team Central |
You will have a long-term strategic approach, while also possessing a proactive, entrepreneurial attitude, and be willing to roll-up their sleeves to get the investment function off the ground.
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Central Investments |
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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 Counsel (Inbound)
Initiative / Team Central |
You will be a key member of the CZI Contracts Team, a part of CZI’s growing Legal and Grants team, and focus on commercial contracts and advising internal partners. You will collaborate with the initiatives and teams across CZI and help us administer and execute contracts critical to the success of our strategic mission and operational goals.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Legal and Grants |
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Director, Legal (Product, Privacy & IP)
Initiative / Team Central |
You will be helping us to drive, build, and champion CZI’s privacy, product and intellectual product strategy, work and team as a Senior leader for CZI’s Legal and Grants Management Team (“Team LeGiT”)
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Legal and Grants |
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Product & Privacy Counsel, Legal and Grants (Technology)
Initiative / Team Central |
You will partner with engineers, product managers, data scientists, grantmakers, and communications and policy experts to help make CZI a trustworthy and trusted institution.
You will help us design and create solutions that comply with laws, respect the rights of others, and drive Privacy and Security by design. You will also support development of our organization-wide intellectual property strategy, our grantmaking and investment efforts, work regularly with external partners, and be a leader that helps build the culture of our team and the entire organization.
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Central Legal and Grants |
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Project Manager, Special Projects (Operations and HR)
Initiative / Team Central |
You will help build our internal Project Management function, focusing on high-priority, organization-wide processes and structures. You’ll work in close partnership with program and initiative leaders across the organization.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Operations |
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Senior Salesforce System Administrator
Initiative / Team Central |
You will work directly with CZI’s Operations team, including Grantmaking, Legal, Finance, as well as partnering with the Infrastructure team to deploy modern enterprise systems that drive the work behind our mission.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Operations |
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Technical Recruiter
Initiative / Team Central |
You will lead the hiring delivery for a function, provide direction on a diverse and sophisticated set of candidate markets and build strategies to allow us to source, engage and hire the best talent.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central People |
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Technical Sourcer
Initiative / Team Central |
You will be a key partner and consultant to our recruiters and hiring managers working closely with them to drive sourcing practices and strategy in order to build the technical infrastructure that enables CZI to scale.
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Central People |
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Director, Movement and Capacity Building
Initiative / Team Central |
You will develop, oversee and execute org-wide as well as community-based and movement focused training and capacity building offerings for CZI grantees, and build and maintain central infrastructure for capacity building that the initiatives can leverage.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Policy, Advocacy, Research |
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Movement Capacity Building Strategist
Initiative / Team Central |
You will foster collaboration with movement leaders and organizations to provide ecosystems of advocates, grantees, and stakeholders with the support to generate strategy, win policy victories, and build infrastructure, and create lasting change.
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Redwood City, CA |
Central Policy, Advocacy, Research |
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Genome Assembly Application Scientist, Shasta, Science
Initiative / Team Science |
As an Application Scientist in the Shasta team, you will work with scientists and engineers from CZI and our research partners to advance the state of genome sequencing, to sequence novel organisms, and to improve clinical genomics.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science Product |
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Product Applications Scientist, Imaging, Science
Initiative / Team Science |
As a Product Applications Scientist in the Imaging Program, 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 |
Our team is seeking a Data Manager with experience in biological data formats, biological data analysis, and project leadership to join the Single-Cell Biology program, which currently supports over 200 grantees around the world.
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Redwood City, CA (Open to Remote) |
Science Science Programs |
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Science Program Manager, Neurodegeneration
Initiative / Team Science |
You will work with grantees in the neurodegeneration program including hands-on work such as data analysis and visualization, developing training and mentoring opportunities for grantees and their trainees, reviewing grant proposals, participating in and planning hackathons, and developing collaborations with external scientists.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science Science Programs |
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Technical Project Manager, Meta, Science
Initiative / Team Science |
This is an opportunity to work closely with a dynamic and collaborative team of product managers, computational biologists, engineers, designers, and user researchers who are focused on supporting the scientific community at-large.
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Redwood City, CA |
Science Technical Program Management |