Director, Technical Program Management, SciTech, Science
Director, Technical Program Management, SciTech, Science
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$ 225000 - 338000
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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. While this may seem like an audacious goal in the last 100 years biomedical science has made tremendous strides in understanding biological systems advancing human health and treating disease.
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
As Director Technical Program Management (TPM) in the Science Technology organization you will lead a strategic operations function that accelerates our mission to build a software platform that advances and accelerates science . This role will serve a dualfocused purpose: 1/ strategically aligning crossdisciplinary stakeholders across the CZI ecosystem serving as the strategic thought partners to the Head of Science Technology while 2/ also driving execution by implementing cuttingedge project management tools and practices to ensure transparency predictability and scalability in execution. The person in this role will need to be able to influence across CZI at all levels of leadership and within the Science Technology organization bridging the two through execution of our roadmap.
You will work closely with a collaborative team of product managers engineers designers user researchers scientists and computational biologists to create software products that accelerate the pace of biological science. You will also work across the CZI ecosystem working with our scientific leaders across CZI and driving complex crossfunctional projects with our Biohub network.
What Youll Do
Strategic Alignment Lead our strategic planning process in Technology
- Create and maintain strategic alignment between priorities and the needs with stakeholders across Science including our scientific leaders across the Biohub network
- Be a strategic thought partner for the Head of Technology in Science
- Facilitate clear and consistent communication of project goals timelines and progress to all stakeholders to keep teams aligned and informed on progress
- Facilitate effective collaboration between diverse teams of scientists engineers and leadership
- Identify and proactively address potential conflicts or misalignments between different teams or priorities
Execution Excellence Lead and support overall organizational execution and team culture by designing and directing program management practices and processes that enable our strategic goals tactical work and the culture and values we need and desire.
- Establish and maintain standardized project management processes tools and templates leveraging AI to automate and streamline as much as possible; develop detailed project plans timelines and budgets
- Track project progress identify and mitigate risks and ensure timely completion of deliverables; drive continuous improvement in project execution through datadriven insights
- Serve as a central point of contact for all projectrelated information and communication.
- Drive the adoption of best practices in project management across the organization.
- Develop and own processes that enable efficient decisionmaking communication delegation and accountability
- Team Excellence Build and manage a small but mighty team of technical program managers from the ground up
What Youll Bring
- 15 years leading complex technical programs with 3 years deploying AI/ML in project execution (biotech/life sciences preferred)
- Proven success scaling AIdriven PM systems in environments with:
- High technical uncertainty (e.g. earlystage research programs)
- Diverse stakeholder ecosystems (academia pharma regulators)
- Familiarity (ideally in practice) with modern AI project tools (e.g. AI schedulers)
- Deep understanding of techbio development
- Knowledge of and curiosity about the latest scientific advancements in the life sciences particularly genomics / molecular biology / cell biology
- A demonstrated history of achieving alignment across highperforming cross functional teams of engineers product managers and designers within the life sciences
- Ability to speak with scientists and engineers at all levels of an organization to bring alignment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in a scientific discipline or MBA
- Experience at a leading AIfirst biotech company
- Familiarity with biospecific PM challenges
Compensation
The Redwood City CA base pay range for this role is $225000 $338000. 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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