Director, IT Service Delivery and Enterprise Applications

Relay Therapeutics
Cambridge, MA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for IT leaders with hands-on experience in service delivery and compliance who can manage both on-site and remote teams in a regulated environment. The role emphasizes collaboration with G&A functions and requires deep technical knowledge of Microsoft 365 and enterprise applications.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years of IT leadership experience in regulated environments
    — “10+ years of experience in IT leadership spanning IT service delivery and/or supporting G&A organizations”
  • Candidates who have successfully managed end-user support environments with Microsoft 365 and lab systems
    — “Experience with end-user support environments that include Microsoft 365, Windows, macOS, lab systems”
  • Candidates with a track record of managing SOX compliance and eDiscovery processes
    — “Manage the design and execution of processes supporting SOX compliance (including evidence collection), resource onboarding/offboarding, and eDiscovery”

Things to consider

  • The role requires close coordination with external vendors and internal business teams across multiple departments
    — “Partner with IT Operations, vendors and internal business partners to deliver solutions across the G&A teams”
  • This position demands a high level of cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication
    — “Serve as the primary point of contact for all IT service delivery matters, escalations, service delivery performance, user satisfaction, and stakeholder communications”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with Microsoft 365, endpoint management, and SOX compliance in your resume and interviews
    — “Ensuring successful day-to-day operation of Relay’s Microsoft 365 environment and connected technologies”
  • Demonstrate your ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and manage complex organizational changes
    — “Strong background in change management, with demonstrated success in managing complex organizational changes”
  • Emphasize your skills in IT financial management, budgeting, and cost optimization techniques
    — “Expertise in IT financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization techniques, SOX reporting”
  • Showcase your ability to deliver clear and actionable reporting and root cause analysis for major issues
    — “Prepare and deliver operational reporting, incident analysis, root cause analysis for major or recurring issues”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • successful day-to-day operation of IT support
  • positive employee IT experience
Typical background
IT leadershipservice desk management

Skills & requirements

Required

IT Service DeliveryEnterprise ApplicationsSOX ComplianceEdiscovery

Preferred

AI TechnologiesMicrosoft 365

Stack & domain

IT Service DeliveryMicrosoft 365Asset ManagementSOX ComplianceEdiscoveryLeadershipCollaborationProject ManagementCommunicationITEnterprise ApplicationsFinanceHRLegal

About the role

Original posting from Relay Therapeutics via Greenhouse

Position Summary

As the Director, IT Service Delivery and Enterprise Applications, you will own day-to-day service delivery for Relay Therapeutics’ IT support operations as well as lead our technology engagements with across G&A (including Finance, Accounting, People (HR), Legal, Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, Operations and Facilities). This is a hands-on leadership role reporting to the Head of IT that will serve as the face of service delivery, ensure a positive employee IT experience, stay close to the technical details of support operations, and partner with IT Operations, vendors and internal business partners to deliver solutions across the G&A teams.

Key Responsibilities

IT Service Delivery

Serve as the primary point of contact for all IT service delivery matters, escalations, service delivery performance, user satisfaction, and stakeholder communications.

Lead the on-site support team contractors and coordinate closely with any remote service desk and external partners

Ensuring successful day-to-day operation of Relay’s Microsoft 365 environment and connected technologies

Work closely with IT Operations to ensure high-quality support across deskside support, Microsoft 365, endpoint and asset management, Audio/Visual technology, lab systems, and related IT services

Own the execution and continual improvement of inventory and asset management processes, organization-wide IT communications/training, lab system/machine backups

Prepare and deliver operational reporting, incident analysis, root cause analysis for major or recurring issues, project status updates, associated risks, and estimated completion timelines.

Partner with IT Operations on projects and initiatives, including Microsoft 365 and AI technologies, to ensure thorough operational readiness for enterprise applications.

Partner with the support service provider to track and review service trends, performance metrics, and opportunities for standardization, operational efficiency, automation, and cost savings.

Enterprise Applications

Manage the design and execution of processes supporting SOX compliance (including evidence collection), resource onboarding/offboarding, and eDiscovery

Work with Finance as the IT primary point of contact for SOX related inquiries, ensuring processes related to Help Desk requests and activities related to account management for onboarding, offboarding, and access requests are consistently documented and executed.

Work with remote support and internal business teams to ensure the successful continued operation and enhancement of the Boomi Enterprise Platform to support Finance, the People team, and Legal processes.

Work with Legal as the IT primary point of contact for all eDiscovery related efforts, including email and content data from the Microsoft environment and related email/file backups.

Partner with the G&A business functions in best leveraging Enterprise IT technologies including Microsoft (collaboration, Power Platform) and AI tools.

Required Qualifications

Associate or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, System Administration, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience required

10+ years of experience in IT leadership spanning IT service delivery and/or supporting G&A organizations, service desk management, or end-user support leadership.

Experience managing on-site and remote support teams in an end user-facing environment.

Experience leading efforts related to new-to-you systems and business processes

Experience working in a regulated, compliance-driven, or security-conscious environment

Strong understanding of ITIL, IT service management practices, incident management, service request workflows, escalation management, and SLA-driven operations.

Ability to manage multiple priorities, coordinate resources, and lead cross-functional initiatives.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders, and vendors.

Experience with end-user support environments that include Microsoft 365, Windows, macOS, lab systems, onboarding/offboarding, and asset management.

Excellent organizational and documentation skills with a continuous improvement mindset.

Strong background in change management, with demonstrated success in managing complex organizational changes

Expertise in IT financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization techniques, SOX reporting

Success in This Role

Success in this role is measured by reliable service delivery, strong stakeholder satisfaction, timely resolution and escalation management, clear and actionable reporting, improved service trends and efficiency, and effective coordination of people, processes, and vendors to support Relay Therapeutics’ business and end-user needs.

Estimated Salary Range: [$161,000 - $230,000].

The range provided above is based on what we believe to be a reasonable estimate for this job at the time of posting. Actual base salary will depend on a number of factors, including but not limited to, a candidate’s education, experience, skills and location.

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About Relay Therapeutics

Relay Therapeutics is a clinical-stage precision medicines company transforming the drug discovery process with the goal of bringing life-changing therapies to patients. Built on unparalleled insights into protein motion and how this dynamic behavior relates to protein function, we aim to effectively drug protein targets that have previously been intractable, with an initial focus on enhancing small molecule therapeutic discovery in targeted oncology. Our Dynamo platform integrates an array of leading-edge experimental and computational approaches to provide a differentiated understanding of protein structure and motion to drug these targets. We have built a world-class team of leading experts from each of these disciplines, and they are driven by a deep collaboration at every step of our drug discovery process.  

Our team is equal parts fearless and relentless, with a shared passion for working collaboratively in intellectually stimulating environments. If you’re excited by the challenge of putting protein motion at the heart of drug discovery and passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients, join us! 

Source: Relay Therapeutics careers (Greenhouse)

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