Creative and Brand Lead
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
$193,000 - $264,000 / year
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Description
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
We’re looking for a Creative & Brand Lead to help scale and steward Biohub’s creative output. This role reports to the VP of Marketing & Operations within the Marketing & Communications organization and will work closely with the social media and product UX teams.
This role sits at the intersection of brand, content, and execution. You will guide creative work across internal teams and external partners, ensuring everything we produce is clear, high-quality, and aligned to our mission, while managing a small team of full-time and contract creatives.
This is not a pure concepting role. It is a role for someone who brings strong taste, exercises influence, and knows how to get great work out of agencies and collaborators working on complex, technical subject matter.
What You'll Do
Creative & Content Leadership
- Guide the development of creative across key workstreams, including:
- Technical / launch creative (in partnership with product UX and agencies)
- Evergreen storytelling, including brand and campaigns
- Technical / launch creative (in partnership with product UX and agencies)
- Ensure all output meets a high bar for clarity, quality, and consistency
- Translate complex scientific and technical work into accessible creative direction
Brand Stewardship
- Uphold and evolve brand standards across channels and partners
- Provide clear, actionable feedback to ensure alignment with brand and voice
- Identify gaps and inconsistencies in how the brand shows up
Agency & Partner Management
- Lead day-to-day relationships with external creative and production agencies
- Set direction, review work, and ensure high-quality delivery
- Manage timelines, scopes, and expectations across multiple partners
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with teams across product, social, communication
- Navigate complex stakeholder environments with clarity and influence
- Align creative output with broader organizational priorities
Execution & Operations
- Drive work forward across multiple parallel initiatives
- Manage a small team of creatives
- Support a mix of agency-led and internally driven projects
- Help manage contractors and external contributors as needed
What You'll Bring
- 8+ years of experience in brand/creative roles, preferably at a tech company, start up or agency
- 3+ years of management experience
- Strong experience working with and managing creative agencies
- Proven ability to guide and elevate creative work
- High creative standards and strong visual judgment
- Experience working with complex or technical subject matter
- Ability to operate in a cross-functional, stakeholder-heavy environment
- Comfort balancing strategy with hands-on execution
- Strong communication and feedback skills
Compensation
The Redwood City, CA and New York, New York base pay range for a new hire in this role is $193,000 - $264,000. 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.
This position may be eligible to participate in our discretionary annual performance bonus program. Bonus eligibility and targets are determined in accordance with our total rewards philosophy and may vary by role.
Better Together
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.
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.
- Provides a generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions to support planning for the future.
- 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
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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Benefits
- 401(k)
- paid time off
- bonus
About this role
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is seeking a Creative & Brand Lead to oversee creative output and brand stewardship for Biohub, the organization's flagship initiative combining AI and biology to solve disease. You'll manage a small team of full-time and contract creatives while guiding work across internal teams and external agencies. This role sits squarely at the intersection of strategy and execution—you'll translate complex scientific work into clear, accessible creative direction; uphold brand standards across channels; lead agency relationships; and ensure all output meets a high bar for quality and consistency.
The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in brand or creative roles (ideally at a tech company, startup, or agency) with at least 3 years managing people and proven experience working with creative agencies. You need strong visual judgment, the ability to guide and elevate creative work on technical subject matter, and comfort navigating cross-functional, stakeholder-heavy environments. This is not a pure concepting role—it requires someone with taste and influence who can get great work out of collaborators while balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
The position is hybrid in New York City, requiring approximately 60% in-office time, and offers a salary range of $193,000–$264,000 plus discretionary performance bonuses and benefits including 401(k) matching, volunteer time off, and family-forming support.
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