Sr Director, IT - Ethics, Compliance & Legal Technology

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals; Cambridge (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, MA seeks a Senior Director of IT - Ethics, Compliance & Legal Technology to lead a technology-enabled transformation across Legal and Ethics & Compliance. You will translate priorities into an integrated, multi-year roadmap spanning digital products, data analytics, automation, and user experience.

You will advise the Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel, direct a multidisciplinary team, and partner with enterprise functions to ensure secure,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, law, compliance, risk management, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive technology, digital product, or business-transformation leadership experience, including at least 10 years of experience supporting Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Governance, Risk, Privacy, Regulatory, or related corporate functions.
• Experience leading complex process and technology transformation in a highly regulated environment and delivering measurable improvements in effectiveness, efficiency, risk, experience, and value.

Responsibilities

• Set and deliver the domain transformation strategy.
• Lead the Ethics, Compliance, and Risk technology portfolio.
• Transform Legal Operations technology.
• Establish trusted data and analytics capabilities.
• Enable domain AI opportunities.
• Drive portfolio performance, vendor accountability, and value realization.
• Lead enterprise partnerships and complex delivery.
• Build organizational capability.

Skills

15+ years technology leadership

Experience supporting Legal, Ethics &

Executive-level communication

Vendor management

Strategy development

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT, business, law, compliance, risk management, or related field

MBA, JD, or applicable professional certification

Tools

Ironclad

ServiceNow

Case management

Policy governance tools

Risk analytics platforms

Job description

Sr Director, IT - Ethics, Compliance & Legal Technology

Cambridge, MA

Overview

As Senior Director, Ethics, Compliance & Legal Technology, you will lead the technology-enabled transformation of the capabilities that support Alnylam’s Legal and Ethics & Compliance organizations. You will translate functional priorities into an integrated, multiyear roadmap spanning digital products, process simplification, data, automation, analytics, user experience, and operating-model change.

Serving as a trusted advisor to the Chief Compliance Officer, General Counsel, and their leadership teams, you will lead a defined technology domain within enterprise strategies, standards, architecture, security requirements, and investment governance. Success will be measured through adoption, process effectiveness, risk reduction, user experience, operational performance, and realized business value.

The position reports to the Vice President, G&A Technology and has one direct report. The role leads and develops a multidisciplinary team supporting product management, architecture, data, automation, user experience, change leadership, and delivery.

This hybrid role is based in Cambridge, MA.

Responsibilities

• Set and deliver the domain transformation strategy. Translate Legal, Ethics & Compliance, and Risk priorities into an integrated, outcome-based roadmap that simplifies processes, improves stakeholder experiences, strengthens controls, and delivers measurable business value.
• Lead the Ethics, Compliance, and Risk technology portfolio. Shape and modernize capabilities supporting case management, investigations, policies, training, monitoring, conflicts of interest, regulatory disclosures, third-party risk, controls, audit readiness, governance workflows, and risk analytics. Lead the full application lifecycle across this portfolio, including platform selection, implementation, integration, enhancement, support, and retirement.
• Transform Legal Operations technology. Improve how legal services are accessed and delivered through modern contract lifecycle management, intake and matter workflows, document and knowledge management, self-service, automation, analytics, and integration with enterprise platforms.
• Establish trusted data and analytics capabilities. Partner with functional stakeholders and enterprise Data, AI, Architecture, and Governance teams to define domain data models, integration patterns, quality standards, common definitions, reporting, and reusable data products within enterprise strategies and standards, enabling timely, transparent, and risk-informed decision-making.
• Enable domain AI opportunities. Identify and advance appropriate AI-enabled capabilities that improve legal-service delivery, compliance monitoring, investigations, contracting, risk insight, employee experience, and operational productivity. Partner with enterprise AI, Data, Architecture, Security, Privacy, Legal, and Compliance leaders to ensure use cases are scalable, secure, responsible, and aligned with enterprise governance.
• Drive portfolio performance, vendor accountability, and value realization. Prioritize investments based on value, risk, readiness, dependencies, and capacity; manage domain budgets and strategic vendors; retain end-to-end oversight and accountability for vendor-delivered technology work; simplify underused technologies; and measure adoption, operational performance, risk reduction, user experience, and return on investment.
• Lead enterprise partnerships and complex delivery. Advise senior functional leaders and partner across Procurement, Finance, HR, Security, Privacy, Records Management, Internal Audit, Data Governance, Enterprise Architecture, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and well-governed capabilities.
• Build organizational capability. Lead and develop a high-performing multidisciplinary team, establish clear ownership and decision rights, and strengthen product, architecture, data, automation, experience, change, and delivery practices across the domain.
• Maintain compliance and role readiness. Complete all assigned company, regulatory, privacy, security, and GxP training and perform responsibilities in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, law, compliance, risk management, or a related field.
• 15+ years of progressive technology, digital product, or business-transformation leadership experience, including at least 10 years of experience supporting Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Governance, Risk, Privacy, Regulatory, or related corporate functions.
• Demonstrated success leading complex process and technology transformation in a highly regulated environment and delivering measurable improvements in effectiveness, efficiency, risk, experience, and value.
• Strong knowledge of Legal Operations, contract lifecycle management, Ethics & Compliance technology, governance, risk and compliance capabilities, third-party risk management, and relevant regulatory expectations.
• Experience developing multiyear strategies, modernizing enterprise platforms, simplifying application landscapes, strengthening integration and data foundations, and driving adoption and value realization.
• Proven financial, commercial, and people-leadership capability, including investment planning, vendor and contract management, team development, and leadership through ambiguity and change.
• Executive-level communication and influence skills, with demonstrated ability to advise senior leaders, create clarity, resolve complex tradeoffs, and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to travel periodically based on business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with platforms such as Ironclad, ServiceNow, case-management, policy-governance, third-party-risk, analytics, or comparable enterprise solutions.
• MBA, JD, relevant advanced degree, or applicable professional certification.

About Alnylam

We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics– a revolutionaryapproach 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 possibleand 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, wherean authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinkingfuel 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.

Before applying, please review Alnylam's Candidate Privacy Notice regarding how Alnylam handles Personal Data you provide with your application for employment.

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The pay range below 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.