Terremoto Biosciences in San Francisco is seeking a senior IT professional to lead the design, implementation, and growth of our clinical, R&D, and G&A platforms. This individual is responsible for planning, organizing, and overseeing all IT projects across Terremoto and serving as a partner for stakeholders across the organization to achieve company objectives and goals. This is a unique opportunity to lead and grow with an innovative start up clinical-stage biotech.

Major Responsibilities

Leadership

• Provide leadership to inspire the organization around common goals, vision, and values for IT and informatics
• Communicate strategy to scientific personnel, operations, and senior management to ensure alignment
• Grow the breadth and depth of department expertise to meet short and long-term corporate objectives
• Serve as champion for the management, governance, and quality of data as well as for vendor relationships across Terremoto
• Maintain ongoing knowledge of industry trends and ability to utilize that knowledge to determine the most efficient ways to meet business needs

IT

• Oversee contingency planning and IT security and compliance by establishing controls and processes in support of data security, PHI, SOX, and other relevant regulatory requirements
• Set strategy for IT infrastructure and software capabilities by collaborating with others to facilitate business needs definition, workflow design, and integration of scientific processes and technology into effective IT solutions
• Lead the planning and estimation of IT & Informatics projects
• Manage vendors, consultants, and the IT and Informatics budget

Informatics

• Work with the clinical development team to drive clinical & translational informatics and clinical data management
• Work with R&D team to implement and maintain key research systems and develop and implement drug discovery platform activities
• Grow and effectively maintain cloud-based computing environment (AWS)
• Develop and implement data integration and analytics strategy across Terremoto

Requirements and Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Information Technology or related discipline
• 7-10 years of relevant work experience in biotech/ pharma.
• 5-7 years of experience managing and implementing informatics and IT solutions in a start-up, biotech environment.
• Prior experience and record of accomplishment leading cross functional teams and delivering on schedule in a start-up biotech environment.
• Prior experience in successfully implementing, utilizing and leveraging outsourcing strategies.
• Ability to identify impediments to complex business and research issues and provide timely and cost-effective solutions.
• Solid scientific/ technical knowledge to be able to successfully ensure project scope and fit technology for applications, networking, and information systems strategic roadmap and execution of all Informatics solutions and IT services.
• Experience with evaluating, implementing and managing scientific data management platforms, cloud computing (AWS) and IT vendor services.
• Ability to adapt to increasing scope and complexity of work brought on by growth/change and helps others manage through change.

* The anticipated salary range for candidates who will work in South San Francisco, CA is $225,000 to $250,000. The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and length of experience within the job, type, and length of experience within the industry, education, etc. Terremoto Biosciences, is a multi-state employer and this salary range may not reflect positions that work only in other states.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. #LI-DNI