What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, Content Enablement Platforms position at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals?
Overview
The Associate Director, Content Enablement Platforms is responsible for the day-to-day execution, stability, and operational reliability of Alnylam’s web and content enablement platforms. This role focuses on hands-on implementation, quality assurance, and issue resolution to ensure content is delivered accurately, compliantly, and on time across global markets.
Working closely with the Director of Global Content Enablement Platforms, IT partners, Marketing Operations, and external agencies, this role translates governance and standards into reliable execution. While execution may focus on priority markets, the role operates with a global mindset, supporting publishing workflows and frameworks designed for reuse across regions outside the United States.
Through 2026, the emphasis will be on operational execution, platform monitoring, troubleshooting, and enabling scalable publishing practices without assuming technical ownership, which remains with IT.
Key Responsibilities
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Digital Media, Engineering, or a related technical or systems-oriented field. Advanced degree a plus.
Experience
$172,100.00 - $232,900.00
The pay range reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).
Alnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well-being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k)with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave. Our commitment to your well-being reflects our belief that caring for our people fuels the impact we create together.
Learn more about these and additional benefits offered by Alnylam by visiting the Benefits section of the Careers website: https://www.alnylam.com/careers
About Alnylam
We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics – a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.
At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.
The Associate Director, Content Enablement Platforms is responsible for the day-to-day execution, stability, and operational reliability of Alnylam’s web and content enablement platforms. This role focuses on hands-on implementation, quality assurance, and issue resolution to ensure content is delivered accurately, compliantly, and on time across global markets.
Working closely with the Director of Global Content Enablement Platforms, IT partners, Marketing Operations, and external agencies, this role translates governance and standards into reliable execution. While execution may focus on priority markets, the role operates with a global mindset, supporting publishing workflows and frameworks designed for reuse across regions outside the United States.
Through 2026, the emphasis will be on operational execution, platform monitoring, troubleshooting, and enabling scalable publishing practices without assuming technical ownership, which remains with IT.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute and support day-to-day CMS publishing activities, including content updates, page builds, workflow execution, and release support.
- Monitor platform health, publishing queues, and execution timelines; identify and resolve issues before they impact markets.
- Perform and coordinate QA activities, including functional checks, accessibility validation, metadata accuracy, and content integrity.
- Troubleshoot publishing and workflow issues in partnership with agencies and IT, clearly distinguishing execution issues from technical defects.
- Apply and reinforce publishing governance standards related to templates, metadata, tagging, accessibility, and approved workflows.
- Partner closely with Marketing Operations, who own the DAM platform, to support integration between DAM and CMS workflows and enable effective asset reuse across markets.
- Work directly with agencies and managed-service partners to ensure adherence to Alnylam tools, standards, timelines, and quality expectations.
- Support onboarding and enablement of regional teams by providing practical guidance, documentation, and best practices for publishing execution.
- Identify recurring execution challenges and propose pragmatic improvements that increase reliability and scalability across global markets.
- Director, Global Content Enablement Platforms: Alignment on priorities, standards, and escalations.
- IT / Strategic Technology: Coordination on releases, incident response, and validation without assuming technical ownership.
- Marketing Operations: Alignment on DAM usage, metadata standards, and content readiness.
- Brand and Regional Teams: Support for accurate, compliant execution using enterprise platforms.
- External Agencies: Day-to-day coordination on publishing, QA, and execution quality.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Digital Media, Engineering, or a related technical or systems-oriented field. Advanced degree a plus.
Experience
- 7–10 years of experience supporting enterprise CMS and digital publishing platforms in regulated environments.
- Hands-on experience executing and supporting CMS platforms such as AEM, Sitecore, or Drupal.
- Practical experience with publishing workflows, permissions, templates, metadata, QA, and release coordination.
- Experience supporting globally deployed platforms, with an understanding of how workflows and governance must scale across markets with differing regulatory and operational requirements.
- Experience working with DAM platforms in partnership with marketing operations to enable asset reuse and scalable publishing.
- Experience partnering effectively with IT on releases, incidents, and validation while maintaining clear role boundaries.
- Background in pharma or biotech preferred; experience in consumer packaged goods, consumer technology, or other scaled digital environments is an advantage but not required.
- Strong execution mindset with high attention to detail and follow-through.
- Comfortable monitoring platforms, troubleshooting issues, and resolving problems quickly.
- Ability to apply standards consistently while supporting scalable execution across regions.
- Clear communicator able to work effectively with business, IT, and agency partners.
- Organized, pragmatic, and steady under pressure.
$172,100.00 - $232,900.00
The pay range reflects the full-time base salary range we expect to pay for this role at the time of posting. Base pay will be determined based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, and education. This role is eligible for an annual short-term incentive award (e.g., bonus or sales incentive) and an annual long-term incentive award (e.g., equity).
Alnylam’s robust Total Rewards package is designed to support your overall health and well-being. We offer comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, a lifestyle reimbursement program, flexible spending and health savings accounts and a 401(k)with a generous company match. Eligible employees enjoy paid time off, wellness days, holidays, and two company-wide recharge breaks. We also offer generous family resources and leave. Our commitment to your well-being reflects our belief that caring for our people fuels the impact we create together.
Learn more about these and additional benefits offered by Alnylam by visiting the Benefits section of the Careers website: https://www.alnylam.com/careers
About Alnylam
We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics – a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what’s possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people. We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another.
At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law. Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.
Salary : $172,100 - $232,900