Vice President Scientific Data Strategy
Vice President Scientific Data Strategy
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$ 363000 - 581000
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Job Description
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of societys toughest challenges from eradicating disease and improving education to addressing the needs of our local communities. Our mission is to build a more inclusive just and healthy future for everyone.
The Team
CZI supports the science and technology that will make it possible to help scientists cure prevent or manage all diseases by the end of this century. Our vision is to build the future of science by leveraging advances in AI alongside biomedical research.
Achieving our mission will only be possible if scientists are able to better understand human biology. To that end we have identified four grand challenges that will unlock the mysteries of the cell and how cells interact within systems paving the way for new discoveries that will change medicine in the decades that follow:
- Building an AIbased virtual cell model to predict and understand cellular behavior
- Developing stateoftheart imaging systems to observe living cells in action
- Instrumenting tissues to better understand inflammation a key driver of many diseases
- Engineering and harnessing the immune system for early detection prevention and treatment of disease
The Opportunity
CZIs is hiring a seasoned resultsdriven leader who will define and execute a scientifically grounded agile data strategy that fuels rapid cycles of research and discovery at the cutting edge of the AIdriven revolution in biomedical science. They will hire mentor and lead a worldclass data team that sits at the forefront of data generation capabilities as well as the translation of data into cohesive interoperable and widely used resources directed at transforming our understanding of cell biology.
The incoming leader will also be responsible for data procurement whether through partnerships generation or curation of publicly available datasets and for establishing scientific data policies standards and security protocols in service of our Grand Challenges. They will ensure alignment with CZIs ethics compliance and privacy requirements while collaborating with engineering product and scientific teams to integrate data solutions that support ongoing innovation. Externally they will represent CZIs data vision in strategic alliances with research partners philanthropic organizations and the broader data community.
The Vice President of Data will join our Science Leadership team reporting to our Head of Science. Their leadership will ensure that CZI remains a global leader in leveraging data to advance biomedical science and change medicine for generations to come. The leader will serve as the connective tissue between experimental data generation and computational modeling efforts ensuring the initiative builds a data foundation that enables breakthrough biological insights. The Vice President of Data will be a collaborative forwardlooking leader who thrives in a dynamic fastpaced environment focused on delivering transformative science.
What Youll Do
Technical Leadership
- Develop a vision and strategy for data as a strategic advantage in CZIs AI leadership in the biological sciences.
- Establish strategy and implementation (i.e. architecture standards) to ensure CZIs datasets are AIready and interoperable across our Grand Challenges.
- Develop and implement data governance frameworks that balance scientific flexibility with the consistency needed for machine learning applications.
Strategic Data Planning
- Establish and iterate on CZIs data strategy in close collaboration with Grand Challenge leaders ensuring alignment with scientific objectives and emerging research opportunities
- Identify critical data gaps and prioritize data generation efforts to maximize scientific value and model performance; develop roadmaps for data acquisition that align with both immediate project goals and longterm vision
- Actively procure generate and manage highvalue datasets forging partnerships and leveraging publicly available data to maximize research potential.
Quality Infrastructure and Integration
- Oversee the design and deployment of robust data infrastructure architectures and pipelines that drive data interoperability in the CZI ecosystem and ensure security scalability and compliance with regulatory requirements
- Implement robust quality control mechanisms ensuring data reliability across distributed collection efforts;
- Develop and promulgate metadata standards and integration frameworks that enable crossspecies comparison of cell types and biological mechanisms to benefit internal and external scientific communities.
Team Leadership
- The data leader will build and direct a team of data scientists engineers and bioinformaticians who interface directly with experimental groups
- Foster a culture that values both scientific rigor and operational excellence in data management that spans molecular morphological and temporal data such as emerging 4D imaging methods.
What Youll Bring
Technical Expertise
- Extensive leadership experience building and managing diverse data teams (e.g. funding partnership engineering data science AI/ML specialists) within largescale fastpaced high performance organizations.
- Deep experience with biological data types across omics platforms and imaging modalities
- Strong background in computational biology bioinformatics and machine learning applications
- Demonstrated success managing complex multimodal biological datasets production pipelines in the contexts of AI model development as well as the driving experimental research
Leadership Experience
- Forwardlooking mindset with the ability to anticipate emerging technologies and translate them into innovative data strategies and products that propel biomedical research forward.
- Experience building and leading a worldclass team of data scientists engineers and analysts. Ability to identify and mentor top talent in the field fostering a collaborative and innovative culture that empowers teams to push the boundaries of data science and AI in biomedical research.
- Experience implementing data governance in collaborative research settings
- History of balancing immediate operational needs with strategic vision
- Ability to navigate and unify diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills to promote CZIs progress and discoveries internally and externally.
Domain Knowledge
- Deep understanding of scientific assays and domain applications necessary to provide robust partnership and oversight to interdisciplinary teams.
- Understanding of comparative biology and cell type conservation across species
- Familiarity with model organism systems and translational research
- Knowledge of current limitations in biological data generation and analysis
Strategic Capabilities
- Exceptional collaboration and communication skills demonstrated by successful crossfunctional and external stakeholder engagements including partnerships with academic institutions industry and the broader research community.
- Proven track record of delivering highimpact scientific data products to both internal and external stakeholders ensuring research teams can readily access explore and leverage data assets.
- Ability to make datadriven decisions under uncertainty while maintaining scientific integrity
- Skill in communicating complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
- Experience navigating buildbuypartner decisions for technical infrastructure
Compensation
The Redwood City CA base pay range for this role is $363000 $581000. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range enabling employee growth in the range over time. Actual placement in range is based on jobrelated skills and experience as evaluated throughout the interview process.
Benefits for the Whole You
Were 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 all we do possible.
- CZI provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
- Annual benefit for employees that can be used most meaningfully for them and their families such as housing student loan repayment childcare commuter costs or other life needs.
- CZI Life of Service Gifts are awarded to employees to live the mission and support the causes closest to them.
- Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
- Funding for select familyforming benefits.
- Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving to the Bay Area
- And more!
If youre interested in a role but your previous experience doesnt perfectly align with each qualification in the job description we still encourage you to apply as you may be the perfect fit for this or another role.
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