Director, IT & Business Enablement

The posting, as Dispatch Bio wrote it

About us

Our purpose at Dispatch is to help create a world where all cancer patients can be cured. We’re humbled by the opportunity to work together as a team on some of the most pressing medical challenges of our time.

To achieve our purpose, we are dedicated to engineering a universal treatment across solid tumors. We’re committed to the development of novel therapies, leveraging first-in-class technologies in viral vectors, universal targets, and novel cytokine biology. Our therapeutic approach has the potential to enable us to treat significant numbers of cancer patients and make a real and lasting impact on the world.

Our company was founded on pioneering work carried out in the laboratories of Dr. Carl June (University of Pennsylvania), Dr. Kole Roybal (University of California, San Francisco), Dr. Christopher Garcia (Stanford University) and Dr. Andy Minn (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center).

At our company, you would become one of our early team members— not only playing a role in meeting our ambitious mission but also building our thriving culture. We are determined to deliver with urgency to discover new solutions and we always stay dedicated to scientific rigor; we have an ownership mindset because each and every one of us is integral to our success. Collaboration is core for us because we believe that by bringing people together with diverse perspectives, we make a stronger whole. And, we show we care about our work and each other by sharing feedback - ultimately in service of our vision to empower people to continue forward with their lives – cancer free.

The role

The Director of IT and Business Enablement is a high-impact and highly visible role at a company on the cusp of clinical-stage milestones. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who operates both as a strategist and a builder. You will own Dispatch's IT and digital function end-to-end, orchestrating our MSP and a small set of specialist partners rather than staffing a large internal team. You will partner daily with our scientific, clinical, regulatory, quality, and finance leaders to turn their needs into the right technology, and you will be the person accountable when a partner or sponsor examines how we operate. Travel to our San Francisco office, up to 25% of the time.

Key responsibilities

Applications Strategy & Business Process Enablement

• Own and maintain a company-wide applications roadmap, balancing near-term needs with a scalable, cost-effective architecture that can grow with the company through clinical development and beyond.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and deployment of enterprise applications, ensuring thoughtful change management and user adoption and stand up a lightweight technology intake and governance process so that new tools are adopted deliberately rather than in silos.

Data Governance & Security

• Own the organization's information security posture, orchestrating our MSP and specialist providers to maintain a

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• Strong project management and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Ability to travel about 25% of the time, typically to our office in San Francisco

Preferred experience & skills

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• Experience building or scaling IT capabilities at a company transitioning from research-stage to clinical-stage
• Familiarity with systems supporting clinical trials and regulated workflows (eTMF, CTMS, eQMS, etc.)
• Hands-on involvement with enterprise AI strategy, tool selection, and deployment in a regulated environment
• ITIL certification and/or CISSP or equivalent security credential
• Experience supporting big-pharma partnerships or sponsor audits, including preparing for and response to partner security and quality due diligence

Our values

Our values guide everything we do. While capabilities and skills are vital, understanding how a potential new colleague would embody our values is central to our hiring decisions.

Determined to deliver

By working with focus and passion, we can provide patients with the solutions they need.

Own every outcome

We can reach new heights when we stay centered on our shared success.

Collaboration at the core

When we band together, our work is better.

Feedback is fundamental

Constructive and authentic positive feedback may be difficult to master but it is vital to our success.

Working here

• We offer a highly competitive compensation package with meaningful ownership through equity
• Excellent coverage for medical, vision, and dental
• 401(k) with generous contribution
• Life insurance
• Flexible PTO policy
• Additional substantial benefits

We are an equal opportunity employer.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, national origin, or any characteristic protected under applicable law.