Associate Director, IT

The posting, as Stellaromics wrote it

Spun out of Stanford and MIT, Stellaromics is an innovative biotech startup founded in 2022 and located in Boston, MA. Our pioneering proprietary technology helps researchers and clinicians create comprehensive cellular maps enhancing our understanding of various diseases, with our flagship product STARmap and upcoming Pyxa™ suite of products. We have a passionate management team and committed investors who believe in our patented technology and overall mission to profoundly advance biomedical research and accelerate the discovery of life-saving treatments.

Position Summary

Stellaromics is seeking an Associate Director, Information Technology to own and build out IT at the company. This is a hands-on, build-it role: you will personally administer systems, manage our storage and compute footprint, run our security program, and hold our vendors accountable, while simultaneously establishing the policies, procedures, and controls a company at our stage needs in order to grow, pass customer and investor diligence, and protect its intellectual property.

Today IT at Stellaromics is a mix of cloud services, lab-attached instrumentation, on-premise and cloud storage, and outsourced support. Your first job is to bring order to it. Your second is to turn it into a durable, documented, secure operation with a roadmap and a budget behind it. You will not have a large team at the outset, so you must be comfortable doing the work yourself; you will, however, be expected to lead across R&D, Manufacturing, Commercial, Finance, HR, and Legal to get policy adopted.

This role is onsite at our Boston headquarters. Regular onsite presence is required to support lab instrumentation, network and server infrastructure, and hands-on user and equipment needs.

Responsibilities

Large-Scale Data Storage & Infrastructure

• Own the storage estate end to end. Administer and scale on-premise and cloud storage supporting multi-terabyte imaging and sequencing datasets, including file/object storage, NAS/SAN, high-throughput instrument capture, and archive tiers.
• Design and enforce data lifecycle management. Build tiering, retention, and archival policies that keep hot data fast and cold data cheap, in partnership with R&D and Computational Biology on what actually needs to stay online.
• Guarantee recoverability. Own backup, replication, and disaster recovery: define RPO/RTO by data class, implement immutable/offline copies, and test restores on a documented schedule rather than assuming they work.
• Support research compute. Partner with Computational Biology on compute and pipeline infrastructure (HPC and/or cloud), including capacity planning, data transfer performance, and instrument-to-storage-to-analysis data flow.
• Manage networking and core infrastructure. LAN/WLAN, switching, firewalls, VPN and remote access, server room/data closet, UPS, and lab network segmentation.
• Forecast and control storage cost. Model growth in TB and dollars, report it to Finance,

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• Experience achieving or maintaining SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or GxP/21 CFR Part 11 compliance, or supporting customer and investor security diligence.
• Startup or high-growth experience, with comfort with ambiguity, limited resources, and rapid change.
• Experience standing up governance for AI/ML tooling and data usage.
• Relevant certifications (CISSP, CISM, CCSP, AWS/Azure certifications, ITIL) are a plus but not required.

Working Conditions

• Ability to work onsite full time in Boston, MA, with regular onsite presence required to support lab, network, and server infrastructure.
• Occasional after-hours or weekend work for maintenance windows, migrations, and incident response.
• Ability to lift and install IT and network equipment (up to approximately 40 lbs) and work in server rooms and laboratory environments.
• Occasional travel to additional company sites, vendors, or conferences as needed.

Why Stellaromics?

• Innovative Technology: Be part of a company at the cutting edge of spatial biology and genomics, revolutionizing the way researchers understand biology.
• Impactful Role: You will have a significant impact on the department and the future of the company.
• Collaborative Environment: Work with a talented, passionate team in a culture that values creativity, innovation, and teamwork.
• Career Growth: As a high-growth company, we offer significant opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

Compensation
An attractive compensation and benefits package based on market pay data will be commensurate with candidate skills, qualifications, and experience.

If you are interested in becoming part of a growing team energized by limitless possibilities, please submit your resume for consideration. To learn more about Stellaromics and our technology, please visit our website at www.stellaromics.com .

Stellaromics is an Equal Opportunity Employer striving to build an inclusive and diverse workplace culture.