Director, Technical Program Management, Science

Director, Technical Program Management, Science

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of society's 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 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 You'll Do

• Hire, lead, and mentor a team of technical program managers (TPMs) responsible for the successful execution of programs that support CZI's 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 You'll Bring

Compensation

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for a new hire in this role is $225,000.00 - $309,100. 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, we're 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 team's manager. The exact schedule will be at the hiring manager's discretion and communicated during the interview process.

Benefits for the Whole You

We're 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.