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Salary: USD 280,000 - 300,000 / annual
Mirum Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company focused on rare disease treatments, seeks a Senior Director of IT for General & Administrative functions. This is a strategic leadership role responsible for technology strategy, delivery, and operational support across Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, and Legal.
You will serve as the senior IT business partner and single point of accountability for enterprise applications supporting scalable operations, effective controls, reliable data, and excellent employee experience. You will own the G&A technology roadmap end-to-end, representing a $3.5–4.0M investment over 24 months across six workstreams currently in execution. You will chair the G&A Functional IT Governance Committee and lead a team of employees, consultants, vendors, and managed-service partners.
Key responsibilities include:
**Strategic Leadership & Business Partnership:** Serve as IT thought partner to Finance, Accounting, HR, Legal, and other corporate leaders. Develop and execute the multi-year G&A technology roadmap aligned with business priorities, company growth, risk management, and compliance. Act as the front door for G&A technology demand, translating business priorities into capabilities and investment proposals. Chair governance committees facilitating prioritization, approvals, and escalation of cross-functional matters.
**Application Portfolio & Program Delivery:** Own the lifecycle, roadmap, integration, enhancement, and support of business-critical G&A platforms including ERP, financial systems, planning and reporting tools, HR and payroll systems, and legal applications. Lead complex cross-functional initiatives such as finance process automation, systems integration, master-data improvements, and reporting modernization. Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget, with measurable business outcomes. Define business requirements, process designs, data definitions, testing strategies, and acceptance criteria. Own change management, training, communications, and adoption planning.
**Financial Controls, Compliance & Risk Management:** Ensure SOX-relevant systems maintain appropriate application controls, access controls, segregation of duties, change controls, and audit evidence. Partner with Finance, Internal Audit, Legal, Privacy, Security, and external auditors to assess risks and remediate control gaps. Ensure G&A applications comply with data privacy, records-management, cybersecurity, and corporate policy requirements. Maintain clear system ownership, support models, documentation, and vendor accountability.
**Team Leadership, Budget & Vendor Management:** Build, lead, develop, and retain a high-performing G&A IT team. Plan annual resources and budget across personnel, software, services, projects, and vendors. Determine appropriate mix of internal capability, consultants, managed services, and software partners. Manage vendor performance, contracts, renewals, service levels, and issue escalation. Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, customer focus, continuous improvement, and practical innovation.
**Operations & Continuous Improvement:** Ensure reliable day-to-day operation and support of G&A applications with clear service levels, incident management, and problem resolution. Drive process simplification, workflow automation, data-quality improvements, integration reliability, and technical-debt reduction. Partner with Data & AI, Infrastructure, Security, and IT PMO to ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture and delivery standards. Establish and track meaningful service, delivery, financial, adoption, risk, and business-value measures.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Finance, or related field; master's degree preferred
- 12+ years of progressive IT experience, including 6+ years in leadership roles supporting Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Legal, or other G&A functions
- Experience leading enterprise application portfolios, cross-functional programs, teams, budgets, and vendors in a regulated life sciences or similarly controlled environment
- Deep experience with ERP and finance platforms, financial planning and reporting, HRIS and payroll, legal or corporate applications, and enterprise integrations
- Strong understanding of core Finance and Accounting processes including procure-to-pay, record-to-report, order-to-cash, budgeting and forecasting, financial close, and management reporting
- Working knowledge of SOX controls, segregation of duties, audit requirements, data privacy, cybersecurity, and vendor-risk management
- Experience with business process design, integration architecture, data quality, reporting, workflow automation, and cloud-based enterprise applications
- Proven ability to partner with and influence senior business leaders while translating technical complexity into clear business choices
- Demonstrated success building teams, developing talent, managing competing priorities, and creating accountability across employees, contractors, and vendors
- Strong executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, financial-management, and decision-making skills
- Pragmatic, hands-on leader who can set strategy while ensuring disciplined execution and reliable operations in a fast-paced, growing company
