Chan Zuckerberg-posted 5 months ago
$225,000 - $338,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Hybrid • Redwood City, CA
501-1,000 employees
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

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. We're seeking an experienced Technical Program Management Director to lead our team and drive impactful initiatives at the intersection of technology and education. You will act as a right hand to our Head of Education and VP, Product on day to day priorities across the team, holding a cross-functional team accountable for deliverables. This is a great opportunity to build and lead Education's Technical Program Management team. As a Technical Program Management Director, you will proactively focus on setting the direction and developing and executing the operational strategy that optimizes our resources across education.

  • Drive Impact: Partner with other leaders of the Education team to set an operational strategy for our resources - time, people, funds - that enables us to do unique cross-sector work across philanthropic, education, and technology sector values and strengths.
  • Optimize Process: Lead and support overall organizational execution and team culture by designing and directing program management practices and processes that enable our strategic goals, tactical work, and the culture and values we need and desire.
  • Foster Collaboration: Work with product, engineering, and partnership leaders to lead and manage the significant processes that support leadership team alignment, execution, and accountability.
  • Champion Innovation: Develop and own processes that enable efficient decision-making, communication, delegation, and accountability; monitor organizational health and plan around corners in the spirit of continuous improvement.
  • Cultivate Team Excellence: Manage a small but mighty team of technical and non-technical program managers who operate critical projects and processes.
  • Be Flexible: Demonstrate adaptability and proactive problem solving by anticipating challenges and opportunities and adjusting strategies and your scope as needed.
  • Proven leadership: Minimum 10 years of experience managing in complex sectors like education, enterprise, or government, along with 5 or more years of leadership experience leading and managing technology teams.
  • Technology Management Expertise: Prior experience working closely with software teams as a technical program manager, product manager or engineering manager is a plus.
  • Strategic Mindset: Deep organizational and managerial intelligence and experience that helps you innovate on approaches to supporting teams.
  • Collaboration and Influence: Exceptional at relationship-building and influencing others to move towards bigger goals.
  • First Principles and Analytical Decision Making: Comfortable with the ambiguity of exploration and innovation.
  • Process Design: Ability to identify structural gaps in process and/or leadership.
  • Creativity and Humility: Excellent at what you do, always trying to innovate, create, and improve.
  • Passion for Education: Strong intrinsic drive to help deliver impact at the intersection of technology and education.
  • Generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions.
  • Annual benefit for employees that can be used for housing, student loan repayment, childcare, commuter costs, or other life needs.
  • CZI Life of Service Gifts awarded to employees to 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.
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