Vice President, Information Security, Central Tech

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to harness the power of technology to pursue some of societys most ambitious goals from curing or preventing all disease to transforming how students learn.

At CZI youll join a deeply collaborative mission-driven community where your work helps drive breakthroughs across our flagship nonprofit organizations Biohub and Learning Commons. Whether enabling scientific breakthroughs via open science and AI-powered biology or strengthening the tools teachers and students rely on every day your contributions help turn bold ideas into real-world impact.

Our teams operate at the intersection of innovation and scale building the infrastructure partnerships and capabilities that allow scientists educators and innovators to tackle some of the most complex challenges of our time and to do so with urgency integrity and optimism.

The Team

The Operations team is a key partner in enabling Biohubs pioneering work to combine frontier AI with frontier biology to solve disease and Learning Commons mission to build AI infrastructure that aligns how students learn with the tools that shape their learning experiences.

Operations includes our Central Tech Finance Marketing & Communications People and Real Estate / Workplace / Events / Facilities / Security (REWFS) teams. Together these teams create the systems programs and experiences that empower our partners and colleagues across Biohub and Learning Commons to drive impact.

This work requires strategic and operational rigor creativity and deep collaboration. Whether designing world-class employee experiences safeguarding data and infrastructure or shaping how we communicate our impact Operations plays a critical role in helping deliver meaningful change at scale.

The Opportunity

The Vice President Information Security role at CZI is an opportunity for an accomplished executive to own and advance our company-wide information security strategy and operations. As our first dedicated security executive you will shape the program protect our systems and data across a complex multi-entity environment and partner with senior leadership to embed security into every part of the business.

What Youll Do

• Develop and execute the companys information security strategy and roadmap setting long-term vision for how the program evolves alongside CZIs mission AI investments and regulated data environment.
• Own security operations across Corporate Product and Third-Party Security including incident response threat detection and vulnerability management.
• Develop a multi-tiered security posture for a heterogeneous organization safeguarding corporate and production environments while enabling speed and innovation across science education and internal teams.
• Drive compliance with relevant industry standard frameworks across the organization as needed
• Partner with XFN partners across Product AI Research Legal IT and Business Systems to ensure secure infrastructure SaaS deployments and corporate data practices.
• Build and lead a high-performing security team balancing a strong security posture with user experience and organizational productivity.
• Serve as the voice on security risk for the executive leadership team shaping how CZI thinks about and invests in security.

What Youll Bring

• 15 years of progressive information security experience including 7 years in a senior leadership capacity with full program ownership.
• Demonstrated ability to build scale and mature security programs in complex or multi-entity environments.
• Deep knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks and how to operationalize them across an organization.
• Strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure and application security.
• Executive-level communication and influence skills with a track record of driving alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders at the C-suite level.
• Relevant certifications (CISSP CISM CISA or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Experience securing AI model training pipelines involving regulated data strongly preferred.

Compensation

The Redwood City CA base pay range for a new hire in this role is $316000 - $519200. 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. This position may be eligible to participate in CZIs discretionary annual performance bonus program. Bonus eligibility and targets are determined in accordance with CZIs total rewards philosophy and may vary by role.

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.

• Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
• 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

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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