Technical Program Management Director, Education

Redwood City, CA (Open to Flex)

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 Opportunity

Shape the future of learning! 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.

In this role, you'll be a key leader within our Education team, responsible for developing and executing the operational strategy that maximizes our impact on students and educators. You'll collaborate closely with Education leadership, product, engineering, and partnerships to ensure alignment, drive efficient decision-making, and accelerate the delivery of transformative solutions.

What You'll Do

  • 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.  We see process as a manifestation of culture and believe it can facilitate the inclusivity we desire and the execution speed and quality we need.
  • Foster Collaboration: Work with product, engineering, and partnership leaders to lead and manage the significant processes that support leadership team alignment, execution, and accountability - these include leadership space and support for stakeholders, including our founders/CEOs and our advisory board
  • 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, including major planning processes (strategic, financial, technical); internal communications mechanisms (helping the organization feel inspired, informed, connected across a hybrid team); product, engineering, design, and data team delivery processes (roadmapping, Jira tracking); central CZI collaborations; executive administrative collaboration and norms; internal and external stakeholder support, and more.
  • Be Flexible: Demonstrate adaptability and proactive problem solving by anticipating challenges and opportunities and adjusting strategies and your scope as needed to drive change, continuous improvement and innovation.

What You'll Bring

  • 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. Must have experience with leading fast moving and scaling organizations.
  • 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 with professional backgrounds spanning sectors towards unified strategy, goals and roadmaps
  • Collaboration and Influence: Exceptional at relationship-building and influencing others to move towards bigger goals. You are low-ego about enabling others but you are not shy about holding the line when needed and getting buy-in on clear priorities to help the team execute well. 
  • First Principles and Analytical Decision Making: Comfortable with the ambiguity of exploration and innovation. You bring a strong understanding of first principles and data driven decision making.
  • Process Design: You can see around corners organizationally and operationally to identify where issues stem from and structural gaps in process and/or leadership. You know how to build the right sized process to get the job done and grow the capacity of the organization. 
  • Creativity and Humility: People want to work with you because you are excellent at what you do, always trying to innovate, create, and improve, yet you bring a humility that lifts others up
  • Passion for Education: Strong intrinsic drive to help deliver impact at the opportunities at the intersection of technology and education

Compensation

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for this role is 225,000 - 338,000. 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. 

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 benefits and interview process at www.chanzuckerberg.com/careers.

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