Job Openings

CZI is continuing to hire and interview virtually during our COVID-19 response.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is using technology to help solve some of our toughest challenges — from preventing and eradicating disease, to improving learning experiences for kids, to reforming the criminal justice system. Explore our job openings below!

September 21, 2018 | Stephanie Nguyen, Recruitment, Jennifer Tang, Product Design, in a meeting at CZI about the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. Photograph by An Rong Xu

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Senior Data Scientist, Education Education	You will coordinate technology team efforts to understand, measure, and improve implementation of the various components of the Summit Learning Platform.	Redwood City, CA	Education Data

Design (5)
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Director, Design & User Experience Research, Science Science	You will lead, develop, mentor and inspire a user experience research and design team, currently at 8 full-time employees plus 2-3 contractors. This requires setting clear goals, managing project loads and allocating team members’ time and effort, ensuring deadlines are met and setting up team members for overall success. Partner and collaborate cross-functionally with product management, engineering, data science, program officers, and leadership to ensure that research insights and design work are delivered in a timely and impactful manner. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Design
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems, Education Education	You will help guide our design system efforts by working directly with product designers, front-end developers, and our design systems team to help us maintain a best-in-class design system practice. This means being both a strong individual contributor working cross-functionally with design and engineering as well as being a systems-level thinker with a passion and interest in design systems. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Design
Senior Product Designer, Education Education	You wiill 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, Justice & Opportunity Justice & Opportunity	You will design user experiences for products that support communities, advocates, and practitioners within the criminal justice system. You will be an individual contributor working collaboratively with product management, research and engineering. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Justice & Opportunity Design
Senior Product Designer, Science Science	You will work in a cross-functional team with product managers, engineers, and scientists to design and build impactful experiences for Single Cell biologists. In this role, you will conduct design tools and services to foster faster-paced and more open, collaborative scientific discovery. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Design

Education Programs (3)
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Executive Assistant, Education Education	You will primarily support the Head of CZI’s Education. You will work in close partnership with the other Executive Assistants on the Education initiative, as well as Executive Assistants across CZI. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Education Programs
Executive Assistant, Learning Platform Education	You will primarily support the Data and Engineering leaders on the Learning Platform along with needs of their broader teams. You will work in close partnership with the Executive Assistant supporting the Product and Design leaders on the Learning Platform. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Education Programs
Senior Manager, Inclusive Design & Capacity Education	You will handle a responsive portfolio dedicated to capacity building. Your will focus also on internal efforts to build the knowledge, skills and approaches necessary to make inclusive and participatory improvements to our educational products and programs. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education Education Programs

Engineering (8)
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Engineering Manager, Developer Infrastructure, Education Education, Technology	You will lead and manage one of the teams in the Infrastructure group within the Chan Zuckerberg Education Initiative. This team serves the Initiative’s mission to build innovative personalized learning environment, in partnership with leaders in the education field. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
Engineering Manager, Notebooks, Education Education, Technology	You will lead and manage one of the core product engineering teams within the Learning Platform; Notebooks. Notebooks is how students and teachers collaborate on written assignments and was built in order to enable richer feedback and deeper insights than past integrations with Google Docs or Office365. It is a complicated product area with engineers ranging in expertise from backend product infrastructure to modern frontend interactions enabling real time collaboration. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Education, Technology Engineering
Senior Software Engineer, Criminal Justice, Justice and Opportunity Justice & Opportunity	You will create technology products for communities, advocates, and practitioners within the criminal justice system.	Redwood City, CA	Justice & Opportunity Engineering
Senior Software Engineer, IDseq, Science 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, IDseq, Science 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, Imaging, Science Science, Technology	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, Technology Engineering
Senior Software Engineer, Security Infrastructure Technology, Central	You will build security solutions to help cultivate a culture of shared standard methodologies and knowledge around security across the initiatives.	Redwood City, CA	Technology, Central Engineering
Senior Software Engineer, Single-Cell Engineering Team Science	You will provide tech leadership for a team building cloud-based tools and infrastructure that support a global community of scientists and engineers advancing the frontiers of single-cell biology. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Engineering

Justice & Opportunity Programs (3)
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Director, Criminal Justice Reform and Immigration Programs Justice & Opportunity	You will have a strategic vision for programmatic areas and must work collaboratively with partners in government, research, philanthropy, and business, to learn, enhance program strategy, and support innovation. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Justice & Opportunity Justice & Opportunity Programs
Housing Manager Justice & Opportunity	At CZI, we believe that housing affordability plays a key role in education, health outcomes, community cohesion, and equal opportunity. Addressing housing affordability will enable more people to pursue their full potential. In the Bay Area especially, the crisis has reached a tipping point and we believe there is an opportunity to play our part in addressing housing affordability in our backyard. We want to take fundamentally new approaches to housing and engage with affected communities to ensure that they are at the center of their own solution-making from problem definition to solution execution. We believe our strengths in advocacy, technology, and investing position us to infuse innovation and to help scale proven solutions in housing. To help execute on projects across our housing portfolio, we’re looking for a dynamic and experienced manager to join our team. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Justice & Opportunity Justice & Opportunity Programs
VP, Strategy and Operations Justice & Opportunity	You will act as a partner to the Head of the Justice & Opportunity Initiative and CZI’s senior management team on all issue areas while also maintaining an operational focus and developing co-ownership of the Initiative’s overall programmatic goals. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Justice & Opportunity Justice & Opportunity Programs

Legal and Grants (1)
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Foundation Counsel Central	You will be a key member of CZI’s growing Legal and Grants team, focused on supporting CZI’s affiliated private foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation. You will collaborate with teams across CZI to help ensure CZIF’s activities and grantmaking are in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and will advise internal partners accordingly. Your guidance will be critical to furthering CZIF’s strategic mission and operational goals, and you will be the point person for day-to-day management of CZIF’s legal issues. In addition, you will also drive the development of systems, policies, and processes for a fast-growing organization. If you are a solutions-oriented thinker who enjoys tackling nuanced legal issues while simultaneously creating a scalable compliance framework, you will fit right in. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Legal and Grants

Policy, Advocacy, Research (1)
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Health Science Policy Analyst Science	You will provide policy analytic support within this team, focusing primarily on the Rare As One project. You will support our health science policy and strategy function to understand and track the policy landscape and stakeholders. Your analyses and information-gathering will support strategic decisions and development of standards and practices for our grantmaking, capacity-building, and partnerships. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Policy, Advocacy, Research

Product (3)
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Product Manager, Education Education	You will lead a core product area with a team of world-class engineers, designers, data scientists, and experts in education.	Redwood City, CA	Education Product
Senior Product Applications Scientist, Single-Cell Biology, Science Science	Our team is looking for someone who has hands-on experience in data analysis, data visualization, and programming languages (including R, python).	Redwood City, CA	Science Product
Senior Product Manager, IDSeq, Science Science, Technology	You will engage closely with our partners at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub as well as support the global infectious disease community in leveraging novel technologies.	Redwood City, CA	Science, Technology Product

Science Programs (3)
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Community Data Manager, Single-Cell Biology Science	You will involve working within our program team and an international network of grantees. Your primary function will be to engage with the single-cell biology community, including CZI grantees and non-grantees, to help identify, transform and curate community generated datasets. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Science Programs
Computational Biologist, Neurodegeneration Science	This role will involve working 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
Science Program Officer, Computational Biology Science	You will work laterally across programs to identify computational and quantitative needs, and to implement the solutions that make them more than the sum of their parts. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Science Science Programs

Technical Program Management (2)
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Senior Technical Program Manager, Data, Education Education	You will support the Education Initiative's data science & data engineering teams, as well as closely partnering with the infrastructure team at CZI.	Redwood City, CA	Education Technical Program Management
Technology Business Partner, People and Finance Systems, Infrastructure Central	You will be monitoring all aspects of the delivery of People and Finance Systems bug/enhancement requests at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. This role will help optimize and scale People and Finance Systems business processes by partnering with System Administrators to advise, test, document, and communicate changes to end-users and business partners as well as manage enhancement projects. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Technical Program Management

Technology Operations (1)
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Director of Investment Technology Technology, Central	You will be responsible for setting the strategic vision for information technology for the Investments team and overseeing the development, deployment, and support of best in class Investment technology. This position will report to the Head of Investment Operations and the Director of Infrastructure, and will collaborate closely with the Investment team to lead the selection and implementation of technology Investments that are aligned with the Investment team’s strategy and needs. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Technology, Central Technology Operations

Ventures (1)
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Senior Associate, Ventures Central	You will assist in the execution of venture investments by sourcing new investments, executing diligence by building investment models and playing an active role in internal discussions related to investment decisions, and supporting portfolio companies. ... Read More — Read Less	Redwood City, CA	Central Ventures