Senior Staff Data Scientist, 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 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

CZI’s work in science includes grantmaking programs, open-source software development, and close collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network. The CZ Biohub Network includes the San Francisco, Chicago, and New York Biohubs as well as the Chan Zuckerberg Imaging Institute. CZI also collaborates with institutional partners like the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural & Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. Join us in accelerating science.

The Insights, Analytics & Open Research Team (IAOR) is  a quant-first intelligence engine whose insights directly support strategic decisions, resource allocation, and amplify the impact and usability of CZI-supported research.  Working across all Biohubs and Grand Challenges, the team builds data-driven tools and systems for evaluating CZ Science's progress and impact, conducts ecosystem and behavioral research, and facilitates the implementation of open science practices to increase usability and collaboration. 

The Opportunity

As the Senior Staff Data Scientist - Lead, you’ll shape the Data Science function for IAOR, driving data strategy and implementation to monitor progress, assess scientific impact, and track the competitive landscape of CZI’s work in science. Leading a small team, you’ll build org-wide analytics systems that inform strategic and tactical decisions. This role blends team leadership with the opportunity for hands-on IC impact and requires a strong leader and do-er.

Your Impact

You and your team will collaborate with Business Partners, Research Scientists, and cross-functional colleagues to co-create how CZI Science defines progress and impact. You’ll translate those definitions into measurable, trackable systems, building dashboards and analytics workflows.  Your team will work across IAOR to build cohesive and comprehensive systems of intelligence reporting – including developing the infrastructure for a new ecosystem intelligence suite of internal products.  Your team will scrape and wrangle unstructured data, build databases and pipelines, develop dynamic dashboards, and perform advanced analytics to generate insights and accelerate the impact of work across all of CZI Science.

What You'll Do

• Own the overall analytics and data strategy for IAOR aligned with business objectives
• Guide the design of data pipelines and reporting systems for both progress (KPIs) and impact, and the ecosystem intelligence product suite, building new where required and leveraging measurements and infrastructure from other teams, where appropriate  
• Guide the development of novel metrics that are methodologically robust and substantively meaningful to help CZI Science understand our momentum and impact (e.g. relative citation index, relative utility KPIs)
• Support your team to design and execute analytical deep dives to uncover insights that drive product and marketing decisions
• Collaborate with IAOR colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the outputs of your team meet business needs 
• Hire, manage, and develop more junior data scientists on the IAOR Team 
• Discover and define new data and analytics opportunities aligned with IAOR’s core goals, and manage the delivery of those data products

What You'll Bring

• 12+ years of combined experience in complex measur