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 measurement & analytics, data engineering, and/or business data science in any field (tech / product experience preferred, but not required), including 3+ years experience in people management
• Demonstrated ability to build data foundations, infrastructure, and systems of reporting used in strategic and tactical decisionmaking from the ground up
• Strong SQL and Python skills
• A collaborative mindset and experience working cross-functionally (e.g. with AI, product and engineering teams)
• Strong foundation in statistics and causal inference
• Experience hiring and retaining excellent people 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Enthusiasm to ramp up on technologies and learn new domains.

Compensation

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for this role is $241,000.00 - $362,000.00. 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. 

[Include for Remote Exceptions] Pay ranges outside Redwood City are adjusted based on cost of labor in each respective geographical market. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your location during the hiring process.

Work Mode

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. 

• 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 you’re interested in a role but your previous experience doesn’t 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.

Explore our work modes, benefits, and interview process at www.chanzuckerberg.com/careers.

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