Director, Technical Program Management, Science
Director, Technical Program Management, Science
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$ 225000 - 309100
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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 AI-based virtual cell model to predict and understand cellular behavior
- Developing state-of-the-art 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
CZI is building a virtual cell model that will learn how cells function at a molecular level and predict how cells and tissues respond to changes to their genes or environment. To achieve this we are generating Petabyte-scale data resources consisting of sequencing imaging and mass spectrometry data which enable us to track cells journeys throughout development monitor real-time changes in cellular state and identity and measure how cellular machinery responds to environmental changes. Ultimately we will publish the data models and related applications for public use.
As the Director of Technical Program Management for Data you will manage a team of technical program managers who are responsible for ensuring end-to-end delivery of the data technology platform required to achieve this vision. Technical program managers on your team will coordinate cross-functional teams of software engineers data engineers machine learning engineers data scientists and research scientists engineers to design and implement systems to acquire transform store manage and prepare data for model training. This will include but is not limited to agentic data ingestion and curation pipelines data management systems data loaders and related support functionality.
What Youll Do
- Hire lead and mentor a team of technical program managers (TPMs) responsible for the successful execution of programs that support CZIs virtual cell model data infrastructure.
- Oversee a team responsible for end-to-end delivery of complex high-throughput data pipelinesincluding agentic curation systems data management platforms and AI data loaders.
- Coordinate cross-functional efforts across engineering data science and research teams to ensure alignment on goals timelines and quality standards.
- Develop and drive program management best practices including roadmap planning progress tracking risk mitigation and stakeholder communication for large-scale scientific data initiatives.
- Establish systems and processes that ensure high agility and responsiveness to emerging data types or modeling needs in the rapidly evolving AI biology space.
What Youll Bring
- 12 years of experience in Technical Program Management including at least 5 years management experience.
- Proven leadership experience managing TPM teams in complex data-centric environments preferably in biotech life sciences or scientific computing domains.
- Deep understanding of large-scale data systems demonstrated by delivery of two or more scalable AI data systems.
- Strong program management skills including experience driving cross-functional technical projects with diverse stakeholder groups (e.g. engineering science product).
- Excellent communication and organizational abilities with a demonstrated capacity to translate complex scientific and technical requirements into actionable program plans.
- Background in a technical or scientific field such as computer science data science computational biology or bioinformatics; advanced degree preferred.
Compensation
The Redwood City CA base pay range for a new hire in this role is $225000.00 - $309100. 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 job-related skills and experience as evaluated throughout the interview process.
Better Together
As we grow were excited to strengthen in-person connections and cultivate a collaborative team-oriented environment. This role is a hybrid position requiring you to be onsite for at least 60% of the working month approximately 3 days a week with specific in-office days determined by the teams manager. The exact schedule will be at the hiring managers discretion and communicated during 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 family-forming 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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