Vice President Technology, Information Infrastructure & Systems, Central

We’re on an ambitious mission to solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease to improving education and addressing the needs of our local communities. Join us to build a better future for everyone!

Learn more about our work modes, benefits, and interview process at www.chanzuckerberg.com/careers.

The Team

CZI is a technology based philanthropy with a mission to build a better future for everyone. We seek a world-class technology leader to bring together the Engineering Infrastructure, Security, and Information Technology Systems into an efficient and effective set of services across CZI and CZ Science.

Reporting to the COO, this new role will develop and execute the vision and strategy to enable the technology investments and core business operations to achieve our impact and collaboration objectives. This includes supporting:

• CZI’s core operations - all of the business systems and IT needs to power the G&A capabilities required to operate CZI as a technology organization, a grant-making organization, and supporter of new, highly collaborative institutes that are part of  CZ Science and CZI’s core software technology teams - across the Science and Education technology teams, the shared engineering, data, and security infrastructure needed to drive developer productivity and efficiency
• CZI’s AI compute resources - managing the cloud and cluster resources to create the largest technology industry-standard compute resources for biomedical academic researchers across CZ Science, CZI’s software teams, and beyond

This is an excellent opportunity for an outstanding leader, inspired by CZI’s mission, with a passion for the potential of technology to enable organizations to operate effectively, including accelerating scientific progress and applying technology to changing education.

We support interdisciplinary teams of physicians, biologists, computational scientists, and engineers to expand our understanding of the human body and illness — the science behind medicine. CZI fosters collaboration between scientists and engineers, develops tools and technologies, and builds support for basic scientific research. Our North Star objective is to understand the mysteries of the cell, the fundamental building block of life. Our approach is to digitally model cell function through research, advanced development, collaboration, and funding. Some of our work in Science includes:

Building software such as:

• CZ cellxgene - an easy to use corpus of single-cell transcriptomics data.
• CZ ID - a metagenomics platform that delivers insights into infectious disease.

Funding of:

• Single-cell biology and the application of technologies that enable multi-omics investigation at the level of cells.
• Imaging and developing tools capable of observing biological processes across spatial scales at the level of tissues, cells, and proteins.

Doing science through

• The CZ Biohub Network empowering scientists to work on their riskiest, most exciting ideas.
• The CZ Imaging Institute and developing technologies to image the molecular architecture of the cell with atomic resolution.

What You'll Do

• Develop an Org-Wide Technology Strategy: Creating a strategy that supports the overall goals of CZI, considering the evolution and priorities across CZI and CZ Science, including science institutes and Biohubs and science and education technology teams.
• Align Technology with Strategic Priorities: Ensuring technology spending aligns with organizational goals and managing technology budgets effectively.
• Lead Core Functional Teams: Managing teams across Information Technology, Business Systems, Security, High-Performance Scientific Computing, Engineering Infrastructure, AI/ML Operations, and Data Engineering.
• Adapt Organizational Design: Modifying the organization's structure and team culture within functional areas to promote innovation, effective resource sharing, and rapid iteration.
• Develop AI Compute Infrastructure: Building AI infrastructure for biomedical research, aligning with technology industry standards, and fostering novel academic collaborations.
• Support Cloud-Based Software Development: Enhancing developer productiv