Careers at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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2019 | The CZI Product Design Team knows how to incorporate play into their work. | Photograph by CZI.

2020 | The CZI Annual Day of Service is a chance for our employees to give back to our local community. | Photograph by CZI.

2019 | The CZI Create-a -thon event brings diverse, cross-functional teams together to solve problems. | Photograph by CZI.

2019 | Kicking off the summer at the CZI company wide picnic. | Photography by CZI.

2020 | CZI cultivates a learning culture through mentorship opportunities. | 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

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.

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 (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Communications Associate, Science Initiative / Team Central	You will work directly with the science communications team to execute the communications vision for the science initiative.	Redwood City, CA	Central Brand & Communications
Communications Manager, EdTech 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

Design (5)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Product Designer, Science Initiative / Team Science	You will work in a cross-functional team with product managers, engineers, and scientists to design and build impactful experiences.	Redwood City, CA	Science Design
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 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
Senior User Experience Researcher, Science Initiative / Team Science	You will conduct mixed-methods research to better understand the needs of the scientific community to foster faster-paced and more open, collaborative scientific discovery. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Design
Staff User Experience Researcher, Criminal Justice, Justice & Opportunity Initiative / Team Justice & Opportunity	You will work closely with designers to build products for communities, advocates, and practitioners within the criminal justice system. You'll not only use your skills to help us understand people’s motivations, needs, desires, expectations, and obstacles, but also to help us uncover the opportunities for technology to make a meaningful impact within two areas: Finding ways to support reform-minded prosecutors and improve prosecutorial decision-making; and building tools to support community-based organizations in their advocacy and reform efforts. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Justice & Opportunity Design

Education Programs (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Director of Operations, Education Initiative / Team Education	You will be part of the Education Initiative leadership team where you will shape, maintain and continuously improve our operational processes and tools to enable our complex collaborations, and foster a culture that enables everyone to contribute their best work. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Education Programs
Senior Manager, Inclusive Design (Grantmaking Portfolio), Education Initiative / Team Education	You will make and manage grants under our inclusive design portfolio. Your portfolio is focused on shifting traditional power dynamics and working to support community-proximate organizations. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Education Programs

Engineering (14)
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
Engineering Manager, Security and Privacy, Education Initiative / Team Education	You will coach and manage team members as they maintain and improve the privacy and security of multiple products, including critical work on securing our systems, responding to incidents, and delivering in-product privacy and security features. You will also coordinate with product development teams, legal teams, and communications teams to gather requirements and promote and implement best practices. As Engineering Manager for Education's Trust team your main responsibility is to lead a maturing engineering team and to enrich the skills and careers of the team members. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education 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	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), 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 Software Engineer (Frontend), 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
Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Infrastructure (Performance), 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 Software Engineer, Meta, Science Initiative / Team Science	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 Engineering
Senior Software 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 Software Engineer, Notebooks, Education Initiative / Team Education, Technology	You will work full-stack and collaborate closely with a cross-functional team to develop on, iterate, and evolve the Notebooks product.	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
Senior Software Engineer (Scientific), 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
Software Engineer, Infectious Disease Program, Science Initiative / Team Science	You will build software tools that help researchers detect disease and public health officials track outbreaks in their communities.	Redwood City, CA	Science 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.	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
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. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering

Infrastructure & Security (4)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Senior Product Security Engineer, Information Security Initiative / Team Technology	You will own whole domains of high-impact engineering work, working cross-functionally to see them through from concept to completion. The product security team works to secure products being developed across all of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Members of the product security team have an impact on all of CZI’s initiatives by championing security principles during the software development lifecycle and by building scalable, cleverly engineered ‘paved roads’ which give strong security assurances by default. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Technology Infrastructure & Security
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 Infrastructure & Security
Technical Lead Product Security Engineer, Infrastructure & Security Initiative / Team Technology, Central	You will critically examine the existing applications, identify the areas of greatest impact, lay out the roadmap for the team, and begin to build the highest impact solutions. The product security team works to secure products being developed across all of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Members of the product security team have an impact on all of CZI’s initiatives by championing security principles during the software development lifecycle and by building scalable, cleverly engineered ‘paved roads’ which give strong security assurances by default. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Technology, Central 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

Legal and Grants (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Contracts Counsel 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
Foundation Compliance Manager Initiative / Team Central	You will help support CZI’s affiliated private foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation (“CZIF”). By collaborating with teams across CZI, we can ensure that CZIF’s activities and operations are in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, California	Central Legal and Grants

People (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
HR Systems & Data Analytics Program Manager Initiative / Team Central	You will be supporting the Director of People Operations by driving a wide range of critical work streams, including building out the people analytics functions and optimizing Workday, HR systems and processes to support CZI’s goal to be a diverse and inclusive organization. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central People

Product (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Group Product Manager, Security & Privacy, Education Initiative / Team Education	You will drive our vision as well as cross-functional roadmap development and execution for privacy and security across our education products and product decisions.	Redwood City, CA	Education Product
Product Marketing Manager, Science Initiative / Team Science	You will be bringing Meta to the global biomedical research community, ultimately driving adoption and usage of the product.	Redwood City, CA	Science Product

Science Programs (2)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Program Associate, Single-Cell Biology Initiative / Team Science	You will be working closely with both CZI staff and external grantees and partners, monitoring project timelines and deliverables, identifying bottlenecks and working creatively with team members to implement solutions. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Science Programs
Science Program Manager, Imaging Initiative / Team Science	You will drive the execution of imaging initiatives aimed at achieving these goals and manage and assist the development and operations of grant programs to support Imaging, including programs in progress, planned, or future programs to be developed. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Science Programs

Ventures (1)
Title	Brief	Location	Initiative / Team
Partner, Ventures Initiative / Team Central	You will report into our Managing Partner of Ventures and be instrumental in developing investment and impact theses, leading the execution of new investments as well as actively engaging in the monitoring and support of portfolio companies, at times as a board director or observer. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Ventures