Director/Senior Director of IT

Ring Therapeutics, Inc. – Director/Senior Director of IT

Ring Therapeutics Inc. is a privately held, early-stage biotechnology company pioneering a completely novel form of gene therapy by exploiting a family of naturally occurring commensal viruses to create the first redosable and targetable DNA medicines. This approach enables a powerful new class of tropic, persistent, non-integrating vectors that overcome the immunogenicity, and limited tropism of existing gene therapy vectors. Ring Therapeutics is leveraging this versatile technology to develop a broad pipeline of novel, targeted medicines for disease with high unmet medical need.

Ring Therapeutics was founded by Flagship Pioneering, focused on launching breakthrough companies based on internally conceived innovations and insights. Flagship Pioneering has created over 40 groundbreaking companies over the past fifteen years, all of which are pioneering novel and proprietary biological, industrial, and engineering approaches to solve major needs in human health and sustainability. These companies include Seres Therapeutics (NASDAQ:MCRB), Moderna (MRNA), Syros Pharmaceuticals (SYRS), Rubius Therapeutics (RUBY), Axcella Health (AXLA), Evelo Biosciences (EVLO), and Indigo Agriculture.

Position Summary:

Ring is building a data-centric and data-driven research engine that is powering our cutting-edge genetic medicine platforms. We are looking for an enthusiastic, detail-oriented, and highly motivated person to lead our IT function. This is a unique opportunity for a senior, experienced and hands-on IT leader, preferably from the Biotech or Pharma industries to take on IT leadership for a well-funded, private Biotech. The team they will manage will be responsible for business & lab systems, IT services, infrastructure, projects, security, and partner relationships.

This team will be responsible for business & lab systems, IT services, infrastructure, projects, security, and partner relationships. This includes, but not limited to:

• Oversight and execution of IT-related projects across the facets of the company
• Planning, coordination, delivery, and change management for IT projects.
• Creating systems roadmaps to meet strategic and operations needs of the company.
• Oversight of core IT infrastructure, services, and partners
• Implementation of digital security policies

Key Responsibilities

Site & portfolio company IT Leadership:

• Business systems IT: Collaborate with company stakeholders to define business systems roadmaps; including data management & security, to meet strategic and operational needs of each company.
• Core IT: Responsible for implementation and operation of all site and company infrastructure, end user computing and lab systems
• Operations: Responsible for overall IT process development, documentation & oversight, e.g., user, vendor & company onboarding, offboarding, end user support, lab support, and emergency management. Also owns IT-related communication and change management.
• Projects: Owns the coordination, implementation and change management related to cross-enterprise IT projects
• Security: Coordinate with stakeholders on implementation of security policies
• Relationships: Responsible for developing productive and strong company end user, executive, internal stakeholder, as well as vendor, and partner relationships.  Also, critical to build connections and relationships across the technical teams in order to meet strategic and operational needs of companies
• Budget/Finance: Will work with company finance and contracts teams for all IT-related budget planning and ongoing financial management for companies and site(s)

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience of hands-on IT management, at least 5+ in Biotech – Pharma
• Extensive and hands-on expertise in:
• Business systems requirements, roadmaps, implementation & operations in a Biotech setting – including manufacturing & clinical systems.
• Lab data and device management, e.g., LIMS, ELN systems
• End user computing systems, i.e., Mac, PC, mobile devices
• Identity management, e.g., Okta
• SAAS applications, e.g., 0365, Zoom, Slack, etc.
• Meeting room technology
• Experience with and understanding of:
• Cloud computing
• Networking
• Information Security
• Experience managing technology projects; especially managing IT aspects of high growth buildouts.
• Extensive vendor management experience
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills
• Friendly, communicative, collaborative approach and style
• A degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or a