Contracts Manager

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 Our Legal and Grants team (“Team LeGiT”) is a key partner in enabling Biohub’ s pioneering work to combine frontier AI with frontier biology to prevent and cure disease and Learning Commons ’ mission to build AI infrastructure that aligns how students learn with the tools that shape their learning experiences. Team LeGiT helps accelerate Biohub’s and Learning Commons’ missions by structuring, negotiating and executing on strategic partnerships, grants and contracts, as well as providing advice that spans IP, technology, exempt org and labor law. We work directly with scientists, engineers and educators in the development of frontier AI models, partnerships with universities, and a wide range of science and education tools and products. In addition to supporting our programmatic colleagues, we regularly collaborate across Executive, Operations, Central Tech and Investments teams to advance the organization’s philanthropic goals. Our team also manages Mark and Priscilla's Family Giving to provide funding for nonprofit organizations, including in the communities where they live and work. At its core, this team exists to build trust — with our partners, our grantees, and the communities we serve — and to help our organizations operate with integrity as we take on some of the world’s most complex challenges. The Opportunity As a Contracts Manager on the Legal and Grants team, you will support contract owners across CZI, including Biohub and Learning Commons, focused on contracts management and negotiation. You will manage, draft, administer, and execute contracts and lead legal operations projects critical to the success of our strategic mission and operational goals. In addition to working with scientists, engineers, educators and operators to help the organization achieve its ambitious missions, you will support contract owners with end-to-end contracts management and provide training, draft enablement documentation, and improve systems and processes related to contracts. You will report to a managing attorney on the Contracts team. What You'll Do • Own and execute end-to-end contracts management from intake to execution of contract, serving as a key point of contact for business partners and external parties. • Draft, revise, review, negotiate and complete inbound commercial contracts and transaction documents, including procurement, professional services, SaaS, event and marketing contracts. • Interface regularly with and advise our internal partners on contracts-related questions, tasks and best practices, and use discretion and priority setting skills to escalate as necessary. • Proactively identify and implement solutions to recurring requests, negotiation blockers, and inefficient processes to drive efficiency and scale across the organization. • Contribute to general team and organizational