Senior Technical Program Manager, Product Security; Opens window

Senior Technical Program Manager, Product Security

Redwood City, CA (Hybrid)

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to harness the power of technology to pursue some of society’s most ambitious goals — from curing or preventing all disease to transforming how students learn.

At CZI, you’ll join a deeply collaborative, mission-driven community where your work helps drive breakthroughs across our flagship nonprofit organizations, Biohub and Learning Commons. Whether enabling scientific breakthroughs via open science and AI-powered biology or strengthening the tools teachers and students rely on every day, your contributions help turn bold ideas into real-world impact.

Our teams operate at the intersection of innovation and scale, building the infrastructure, partnerships, and capabilities that allow scientists, educators, and innovators to tackle some of the most complex challenges of our time — and to do so with urgency, integrity, and optimism.

The Operations team is a key partner in enabling Biohub’s pioneering work to combine frontier AI with frontier biology to solve disease and Learning Commons’ mission to build AI infrastructure that aligns how students learn with the tools that shape their learning experiences.

Operations includes our Central Tech, Finance, Marketing & Communications, People, and Real Estate / Workplace / Events / Facilities / Security (REWFS) teams. Together, these teams create the systems, programs, and experiences that empower our partners and colleagues across Biohub and Learning Commons to drive impact.

This work requires strategic and operational rigor, creativity, and deep collaboration. Whether designing world‑class employee experiences, safeguarding data and infrastructure, or shaping how we communicate our impact, Operations plays a critical role in helping deliver meaningful change at scale.

We are seeking a Technical Program Manager with expertise in Application Security, specifically in identifying vulnerabilities and then scoping and implementing novel solutions to eliminate those weaknesses  don't just identify and fix security vulnerabilities - we go beyond by creating paved roads and secure frameworks to avoid security vulnerabilities in the first place. You will be expected to operate using in-depth subject‑matter knowledge at a technical level with developers and engineers across large organizations.

Your security and development experience will be relied upon to provide secure foundations to the application and infrastructure teams that underpin the CZI Enterprise.

The role will help shape the product and application security that protects scientific and educational innovation at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Biohub and Learning Commons. You’ll work alongside a dynamic team of engineers, Product Managers, and Security Professionals, building shared tools and platforms that support a diverse group of Research Scientists, Data Scientists, AI Researchers, and Engineers tackling some of the world’s most complex problems.

As part of the Information Security team, your work will directly impact all of CZI’s initiatives by ensuring the security and scalability of the technology solutions that drive our mission forward.

• 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…