Job Description

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.
• 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 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.
• 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: You can see around corners organizationally and operationally to identify where issues stem from and structural gaps in process and/or leadership.
• Creativity and Humility: People want to work with you because you are excellent at what you do.
• 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.

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.
• Annual benefit for employees that can be used most meaningfully for them and their families.
• 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.

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.

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