Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Full-stack Engineer

• Set technical strategy by defining the architecture and technical roadmap across the stack — applications, AI agents and workflows, integrations, and knowledge infrastructure
• Architect and maintain reliable, scalable production applications with a focus on infrastructure automation and governance
• Design and build the AI layer — custom agents, workflows, and the knowledge and retrieval substrate that lets them reason over connected enterprise data
• Tech-lead a small team: set the design and code review bar, partner with engineers on what good looks like, mentor contingent engineering support
• Partner with senior business stakeholders across the org and with embedded engineers in Investments, Biohub, and Learning Commons

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Internal Tools

• Own the design and delivery of individual systems end-to-end — from scoping with business stakeholders through production deployment
• Build the production applications business teams use day-to-day
• Design and build AI features — custom agents, workflows, and the knowledge and retrieval substrate that lets them reason over connected enterprise data
• Partner with the tech lead on architecture decisions; contribute strong points of view on tradeoffs, patterns, and reuse
• Potentially contribute to the team's cloud footprint over time — pragmatic infrastructure decisions, deployment, observability, and reliability for what the team ships, as the scope of the team develops
• Partner with senior business stakeholders and embedded engineers across the organization

Senior Software Engineer, Internal Tools

Security Engineer

• Conceive, design, develop, and improve industry-leading security tooling, automation, architecture, and/or frameworks that enable enterprise teams at scale to deliver applications and services with appropriate security controls to meet evolving requirements for security and privacy.
• Identify and eliminate classes of security problems by shifting detection and prevention left into the development workflow.
• Provide just-in-time, actionable, technical security guidance to enterprise application and service teams.
• Ensure prioritization, resourcing, and timely delivery of work within a changing business environment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security work is being prioritized and addressed.
• Drive end-to-end execution of technical security projects, including requirements gathering, scoping, status updates, and delivery milestones.
• Establish and report metrics to track compliance, program health, and ongoing risk posture.
• Coordinate with third-party vendors and auditors to augment internal security capabilities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on infrastructure, architecture, and application security, offering guidance to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support security reviews, threat modeling, and incident response efforts for applications and production infrastructure.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Product Security

AI Engineer

• Build AI-enabled applications and workflows that support investment research, manager monitoring, reporting, and operational processes.
• Develop integrations with internal and external data sources to improve access to information and reduce manual work.
• Contribute to data pipelines, automation workflows, and reporting systems that improve efficiency and data accessibility.
• Organize, process, and prepare structured and unstructured data for use in AI applications and analytics tools.
• Implement data validation, monitoring, and quality checks to improve the reliability of investment data.
• Partner with investment and operations team members to understand business needs and help develop technical solutions.
• Explore and prototype emerging AI technologies, including large language models, retrieval systems, and workflow automation tools.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, documentation, and software engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot technical issues and contribute to system improvements.
• Stay current on developments in artificial intelligence, software engineering, data systems, and financial technology.

Applied AI Engineer, Investments

Manager

• Review, analyze, negotiate, draft, and finalize inbound commercial and business contracts, including vendor, procurement, professional services, SaaS/software, data-related, and other contracts.
• Advise stakeholders regarding contractual matters and interpret contractual language and related legal concepts while maintaining a nimble and responsive approach to managing risk within a scaling organization.
• Support clients to resolve third-party contract disputes and amend, enforce, or terminate contracts.
• Coach and manage contracts management team members with professional development, contract review, and escalations.
• Draft and maintain contract templates, clause library, playbooks, and policies to increase efficiency and mitigate risk.
• Coordinate internal compliance measures relating to business and legal policies, including preparing and conducting regular training sessions for other Contracts Team members and internal clients throughout the organization.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of applicable laws, regulations, and standards to ensure CZI’s adaptation and compliance, including training others on the Contracts Team.
• Proactively contribute to general team and organizational operations, including taking on special projects and helping out with other functions, as necessary.

Contracts Manager

Vice President

• Partner with executive leadership across Biohub and Learning Commons to align workplace and real estate strategies with workforce planning, evolving business needs, and future growth.
• Lead real estate, workspace operations, and regional facilities management strategy for all sites across the organization.
• Oversee the corporate real estate portfolio, including lease negotiations, site selection, acquisitions, dispositions, and space utilization optimization.
• Drive workplace experiences and design that foster collaboration, community, inclusion, and productivity across all locations.
• Manage corporate construction, capital improvement projects, and buildouts from inception through delivery, ensuring alignment with timeline, quality, and budget.
• Direct workspace operations, facilities management, physical security, food services, events support, and environment, health, and safety (EHS) programs.
• Develop and manage the annual operational and capital budget for the real estate and workplace function, prioritizing resource allocation and fiscal responsibility.
• Implement progressive sustainability practices, corporate social responsibility initiatives, and innovative technologies within our operations and physical infrastructure.

Vice President – Real Estate and Workplace

• Guide the development of creative across key workstreams, including:
• Technical / launch creative (in partnership with product UX and agencies)
• Evergreen storytelling, including brand and campaigns
• Ensure all output meets a high bar for clarity, quality, and consistency
• Translate complex scientific and technical work into accessible creative direction
• Uphold and evolve brand standards across channels and partners
• Provide clear, actionable feedback to ensure alignment with brand and voice
• Identify gaps and inconsistencies in how the brand shows up
• Lead day-to-day relationships with external creative and production agencies
• Set direction, review work, and ensure high-quality delivery
• Manage timelines, scopes, and expectations across multiple partners
• Partner with teams across product, social, communication
• Navigate complex stakeholder environments with clarity and influence
• Align creative output with broader organizational priorities
• Drive work forward across multiple parallel initiatives
• Manage a small team of creatives
• Support a mix of agency-led and internally driven projects
• Help manage contractors and external contributors as needed

Senior Manager, Creative and Brand

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Serve as the Finance point of contact for a portfolio of Central functions, ensuring operational leaders have a reliable, responsive Finance resource for their recurring reporting and Finance needs.
• Own day-to-day financial management across Opex and People spend, ensuring accurate tracking, forecasting, and reporting across supported functions.
• Manage budget vs. actuals analysis across operating expenses, grants and headcount-related spend; proactively identify risks, variances, and emerging trends and surface insights to Finance leadership and business partners.
• Lead annual planning and reforecast cycles, building detailed financial models and partnering with stakeholders to translate operational inputs into structured financial forecasts.
• Drive monthly close activities, including accrual preparation across Opex and reconciliation across systems to ensure data integrity.
• Lead the identification and implementation of AI-driven and automation improvements across recurring finance processes - including accrual workflows, forecast updates, headcount tracking, and reporting packages - with a focus on reducing manual effort, improving accuracy, and building scalable solutions.
• Build and enhance scalable reporting infrastructure, leveraging Adaptive, Workday, Salesforce, Sheets, and other tools to reduce manual work and improve data transparency.

Finance Manager

Systems Engineer

• Gather & analyze business requirements: Working closely with the Payroll, Finance, and Total Rewards teams to understand their business needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• Document & prioritize business requirements: Document business requirements clearly. Create user stories and use cases. Assess prioritization of requests based on business impact, ease of delivery, ROI, and compliance.
• Design solutions: Translate business requirements into technical specifications. Consider out-of-the-box/best practice application configuration options and, if needed, customizations/enhancements to the application.
• Implement Solutions: Work closely with the IT team to develop, test, and deploy solutions. Coordinate activities with the business teams to test solutions and ensure solving for the desired business outcomes.
• Manage demand and projects: Prioritize demand, create project plans, monitor & communicate progress throughout the project lifecycles.
• Collaborate: Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Explain technical and application capabilities to the business teams. Translate business requirements to the technical teams.
• Stay up to date with technology trends: Continuously learn new features and trends within the Workday ecosystem, recommending potential enhancements to the system.

Business Systems Analyst, Payroll Systems

Accounting Manager

• Collaborate with grants management team to ensure timely and accurate grant payments
• Build process documentation and internal controls
• Review grant contracts to determine the proper accounting
• Monitor weekly cash flow to assess bank account sufficiency; execute funding requests and reconcile differences against budget
• Prepare month end close journals, reconciliations, analytics, and support for the financial statement audits in accordance with US GAAP
• Leverage Workday, Salesforce, and other systems—including AI-powered tools—to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of month-end close and reporting processes
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive accounting workflows using AI or scripting, and partner with IT/BST to implement them