Project Manager, Marketing

About the Organization

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg to harness the power of technology to pursue ambitious societal 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 flagship nonprofit organizations, Biohub and Learning Commons. Whether enabling scientific breakthroughs via open science and AI-powered biology or strengthening tools for educators and students, your contributions help turn bold ideas into real-world impact. Teams operate at the intersection of innovation and scale, building infrastructure, partnerships, and capabilities to tackle complex challenges with urgency, integrity, and optimism.

About the Team

The Operations team is a key partner in enabling Biohub’s pioneering work combining frontier AI with biology to solve disease and Learning Commons’ mission to build AI infrastructure aligning how students learn with the tools shaping their experiences. Operations includes Central Tech, Finance, Marketing & Communications, People, and Real Estate/Workplace/Events/Facilities/Security (REWFS) teams. Together, they create systems, programs, and experiences empowering partners and colleagues to drive impact through strategic rigor, creativity, and deep collaboration.

About the Role

We're looking for a Project Manager, Marketing to streamline day-to-day operations. You’ll manage systems, processes, and workflows—from intake and prioritization to project tracking—ensuring creative and production work is shipped efficiently, at high quality, and at scale. This role reports to the Marketing Operations Lead within the Marketing & Communications organization. The ideal candidate thinks in systems, identifies opportunities for AI-assisted workflows, and is comfortable building processes from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Systems & Process
  • Build and maintain systems (intake, project tracking, approvals, asset/file management) to keep the team running.
  • Identify opportunities to automate repetitive or manual work using AI (e.g., intake triage, status reporting) and implement those workflows.
  • Document workflows and playbooks to ensure processes scale beyond any single person.
• Project & Workflow Management
  • Run day-to-day project management for creative and production work: intake, prioritization, timelines, and status tracking.
  • Spot bottlenecks before they become blockers and redesign processes, not just patch symptoms.
  • Keep multiple projects moving in parallel without letting details slip.
• Cross-Functional Coordination
  • Serve as the point of contact for teams submitting creative and production requests.
  • Coordinate timelines and dependencies across creative, content, and partner teams.
  • Maintain dashboards and reporting on capacity and project status.
• Events Support
  • Support logistics and planning for brand-related events, activations, or offsites as needed.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in project management, marketing operations, or a similarly operational role, ideally supporting brand, creative, or communications functions.
• Proven experience building or deploying AI-powered tools/workflows that reduced manual work (specific examples required).
• Highly organized and detail-oriented; able to catch things others miss.
• Self-motivated with strong follow-through; comfortable creating structure where none exists.
• Collaborative and adaptable across stakeholders and working styles.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfort with project management/collaboration tools (e.g., Notion, Airtable, Jira).
• Event planning or logistics experience is a plus.

Pay

The Redwood City, CA base pay range for this role is $138,000–$189,200. New hires are typically hired into the lower portion of the range, with growth potential over time. Actual placement is based on job-related skills and experience evaluated during the interview process.

Schedule

This is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence for at least 60% of the working month (approximately 3 days per week). Specific in-office days will be determined by the hiring manager and communicated during the interview process.

Benefits

• Generous employer match on 401(k) contributions.
• 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.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual performance bonus program (targets vary by role).