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🧪Data Scientist

Senior Staff Data Scientist, Science

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative · Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)
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Data Scientist (Modeling, experiments, research.)
posted
220d ago
location
Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)
languages
python, sql
tools
> stack
pythonsql
> description
<h2><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Team</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Building an AI-based virtual cell model to predict and understand cellular behavior</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Developing state-of-the-art imaging systems to observe living cells in action</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Instrumenting tissues to better understand inflammation, a key driver of many diseases</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Engineering and harnessing the immune system for early detection, prevention, and treatment of disease</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CZI’s <a href="http://www.chanzuckerberg.com/science">work in science</a> 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 &amp; Artificial Intelligence at Harvard University. Join us in accelerating science.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Insights, Analytics &amp; Open Research Team (IAOR) is&nbsp; a quant-first intelligence engine whose insights directly support strategic decisions, resource allocation, and amplify the impact and usability of CZI-supported research.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;</span></p> <h2><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Opportunity</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Your Impact</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.</span></p> <h2><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">What You'll Do</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own the overall analytics and data strategy for IAOR aligned with business objectives</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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)</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Support your team to design and execute analytical deep dives to uncover insights that drive product and marketing decisions</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Collaborate with IAOR colleagues and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the outputs of your team meet business needs&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Hire, manage, and develop more junior data scientists on the IAOR Team&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Discover and define new data and analytics opportunities aligned with IAOR’s core goals, and manage the delivery of those data products</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">What You'll Bring</span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">12+ years of combined experience in complex measurement &amp; 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</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Demonstrated ability to build data foundations, infrastructure, and systems of reporting used in strategic and tactical decisionmaking from the ground up</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong SQL and Python skills</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A collaborative mindset and experience working cross-functionally (e.g. with AI, product and engineering teams)</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong foundation in statistics and causal inference</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience hiring and retaining excellent people&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Enthusiasm to ramp up on technologies and learn new domains.</span></li> </ul> <h2><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Compensation</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The Redwood City, CA base pay range for a new hire in this role is $241,000.00 - $331,100.00. 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.&nbsp;</span></p> <h2><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Work Mode</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <h2><span style="color: rgb(223, 22, 33); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 39);"><strong>Benefits for the Whole You</strong></span>&nbsp;</span></h2> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CZI provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">CZI Life of Service Gifts are awarded to employees to “live the mission” and support the causes closest to them.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Funding for select family-forming benefits.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving to the Bay Area</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/careers/#benefits"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(222, 31, 38);">And more</span></a>!</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Explore our&nbsp;<a href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/careers/working-reimagined/"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(222, 31, 38);">work modes</span></a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/careers/#benefits"><span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(222, 31, 38);">benefits</span></a>, and&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(222, 31, 38);"><a style="color: rgb(222, 31, 38); text-decoration: underline;" href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/careers/candidate-journey/">interview process</a></span>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.chanzuckerberg.com/careers"><span style="color: rgb(222, 31, 38);">www.chanzuckerberg.com/careers</span></a>.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400; 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