Vice President, Real Estate and Workplace

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 Team 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. The Opportunity CZI's Central Operations team is seeking a Vice President, Real Estate and Workplace , to lead the strategy, operations, and evolution of our laboratory environments and workplace ecosystem. This executive leader will be responsible for shaping how employees, guests, and partners experience our physical environments while ensuring our real estate portfolio, facilities operations, and workplace services effectively support our mission and long-term growth. As the senior leader responsible for Real Estate and Workplace, you will oversee a broad portfolio that includes workplace experience, facilities management, building operations, capital projects, real estate planning and transactions, transportation, parking, workplace services, and vendor management. You will lead a multi-layered organization through growth and change to ensure workplace, facilities, events, and security services support collaboration, scientific work, organizational effectiveness, and employee experience. A significant and growing portion of this portfolio will center on laboratory environments, lab automation infrastructure, and scientific research spaces in partnership with our Biohub teams — areas that will define CZI's next chapter of physical growth. This role requires a strategic operator who can balance long-term planning with day-to-day execution, navigate ambiguity, build high-performing teams, and partner closely with leaders across the organization to create environments that foster collaboration, innovation, and impact. What You'll Do Partner with executive leadership across Biohub and Learning Commons to align workplace and real estate strategies with workforce planning, evolving business needs, and future growth. Lead real estate, workspace operations, and regional facilities management strategy for all sites across the organization. Partner with Biohub scientific leadership to plan, build out, and operationalize laboratory and lab automation spaces, ensuring facilities meet the specialized infrastructure, equipment, and safety requirements of cutting-edge biological research. Oversee the corporate real estate portfolio,…