Technical Program Manager
Salesforce
CloudSDLC
Technical Program Manager, Sequencing, Science
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Redwood City • California • 🇺🇸 United States
Visit company websiteSalary
💰 $153,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
About the role
- Drive cross-functional programs to ingest, manage, and serve large-scale sequencing datasets, ensuring timely, secure, and accurate delivery.
- Collaborate with platform scientists generating data to align on scope, timelines, and quality expectations.
- Partner with infrastructure and data engineers to build scalable, reliable ingestion pipelines that meet regulatory and security requirements.
- Work with data scientists to codify data quality and format standards, enabling seamless downstream use for model training.
- Manage complex stakeholder relationships across internal teams, CROs, and grantees to ensure successful data delivery.
- Establish program structures, roadmaps, and milestones that drive accountability and progress across teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in technical program management or related roles, with demonstrated success leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives.
- Familiarity with genomics and sequencing data modalities (e.g., scRNA-seq, WGS) and their unique challenges in scale, quality, and compliance.
- Experience managing programs with regulatory or data security requirements, ideally in a biological or healthcare context.
- Proven ability to coordinate across engineering, scientific, and research stakeholders to deliver complex technical outcomes.
- Strong organizational, communication, and leadership skills, with the ability to bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous and multi-stakeholder environments.
- Enthusiasm for working in a multidisciplinary environment spanning biology, data, and AI research, and for learning new domains quickly.
Benefits
- 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.
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
technical program managementdata ingestiondata managementdata quality standardsdata format standardsregulatory compliancedata securitygenomicssequencing datacross-functional initiatives
Soft skills
organizational skillscommunication skillsleadership skillsstakeholder managementcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityclarity in ambiguitymomentum buildingmultidisciplinary teamwork
