Careers at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Simran Krishna, is a product manager on the Education team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Photo courtesy of Simran Krishna.

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Shannon Axelrod is a Senior Software Engineer with the Science Technology team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Photo by CZI.

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Kari Lee is the education team’s Engineering Director at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Photo by Dale Ramos.

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Fiona Griffin brings passion and excitement to her role as a Science Project Manager at CZI and is one of the women making a difference in accelerating science to help future generations. | Photograph by CZI

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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.”

DARNELL CADETTE

CZI COMMUNITY TEAM

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.”

KATJA BROSE

SCIENCE TEAM

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.”

MAUREEN SUHENDRA

EDUCATION TECH TEAM

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.”

MARC PRIESTER

JUSTICE & OPPORTUNITY TEAM

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.”

JONAH COOL

SCIENCE TEAM

Why CZI?

"At CZI, I don’t have to make the choice between optimizing for career growth and working on something I believe in.”

VIVIAN HARE

EDUCATION TEAM

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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.

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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

Live The Mission

Explore Giving Stories

Feed Your Brain

Get Financially Fit

Be Well

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.

Explore Giving Stories

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.

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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!

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Career Opportunities

Brand & Communications (3)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Communications Manager, Education Technology Initiative / Team Education, Central	You will help us tell the story of how CZI’s is partnering with researchers and educators to build technology tools that help teachers differentiate learning experiences to meet the needs of every student and strengthen connections ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education, Central Brand & Communications
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Brand & Communications
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). ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Brand & Communications

Community (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Community Community

Data (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Staff Data Scientist, Education Initiative / Team Education	You will build metrics, visualizations, dashboards, provide data insight, product expertise, and a strategic perspective to partners throughout the organization.	Redwood City, CA	Education Data

Design (3)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Senior Product Designer, Education Initiative / Team Education	You will lead Product Design on an interdisciplinary team with a broad surface area. Be comfortable solving problems with pixels, programs, or training. Be ready to strive every day to make learning easier and more delightful for students and teachers. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Design
Senior Product Designer, Education (Along) Initiative / Team Education	You will create visually stunning products to foster relationships within the classroom as a Product Designer our Along team. The Along product helps teachers connect with their students, and teach important life skills, all while staying delightful and engaging. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Design
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.	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Design

Education Programs (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Education Programs

Engineering (13)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science, Technology Engineering
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.	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
Senior 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.	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Engineering
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.	Redwood City, CA	Science, Technology Engineering
Senior Fullstack Engineer, IDseq, Science Initiative / Team Science	You will have the opportunity to build out our Infectious Disease Sequencing tool, a collaboration between CZI and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub.	Redwood City, CA	Science Engineering
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science, Technology Engineering
Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Along, Education Initiative / Team Education, Technology	You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop and quickly iterate on products and features, with an emphasis on server-side code, business logic and integrations. ... Read More — Read Less	Remote	Education, Technology Engineering
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Technology Engineering
Senior 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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
Staff Software Engineer (Frontend), 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.	Remote	Education, Technology Engineering
Staff Software Engineer, Imaging, Science Initiative / Team Science	You will have the opportunity to work closely with a collaborative team of scientists, engineers, product managers, designers and user researchers, building analysis and visualization tools for exploring and analyzing biological imaging data. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Engineering

IT (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central IT

Infrastructure & Security (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Senior Workday System Administrator Initiative / Team Technology	You will be responsible for helping to operate, improve, and expand Workday at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This role will provide full back-end Workday support, including Business Process configuration, tenant configuration, data loads, report writing, integration design & management, security administration and upgrade planning/testing. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Technology Infrastructure & Security
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Technology Infrastructure & Security

Investments (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Investments
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.	Redwood City, CA	Central Investments

Justice & Opportunity Programs (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Justice & Opportunity Programs

Legal and Grants (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Legal and Grants
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Legal and Grants

Operations (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Project Manager, Special Projects 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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Operations
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City	Central Operations

People (3)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Hiring Experience Associate Initiative / Team Central	You will balance your time with interview scheduling tasks and support programmatic work which will allow our recruiting team to advance our hiring efforts.	Redwood City, CA	Central People
Program Manager, Learning and Development Initiative / Team Central	You will design, develop and deliver learning and development solutions, platforms and strategies to develop employee growth, expand capabilities and drive a culture of engagement. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central People
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central People

Product (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Product Manager, Education Initiative / Team Education	You will lead a core product area with a cross-functional team of engineering, design, research, data science, learning science, and operations.	Redwood City, CA	Education Product

Science Programs (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Science Programs