Scholar Rock is delivering muscle-targeted breakthroughs to transform the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and other rare neuromuscular diseases where muscle atrophy remains a critical unmet need.
As a global leader in myostatin biology, a field focused on proteins that regulate muscle mass, the biopharmaceutical company is named for the visual resemblance of a scholar rock to protein structures. Our commitment to unlock fundamentally different treatment approaches is powered by broad application of a proprietary platform, which has developed novel monoclonal antibodies to modulate protein growth factors with extraordinary selectivity. Scholar Rock works every day to create new possibilities for patients through its highly innovative anti-myostatin program, including opportunities in additional rare neuromuscular diseases. Learn more about our neuromuscular franchise at ScholarRock.com and follow @ScholarRock on X and on LinkedIn.
Scholar Rock is looking for a leader who is equally comfortable building the roadmap and rolling up their sleeves to deliver it. This individual brings strong technical judgment, a high sense of ownership, and a service mindset and knows how to build an IT organization that is scalable as the company grows.
This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for the reliability, scalability, and day-to-day operation of Scholar Rock’s IT environment across the U.S. and international locations. The successful candidate will set direction, build and develop the team, and remain close enough to the technology and business to solve problems and drive execution.
This leader will strengthen the capabilities we need today while building the infrastructure and operating model required to support Scholar Rock’s continued growth and global commercialization.
Position Responsibilities
- Own Scholar Rock’s global IT infrastructure and operations, including cloud and Microsoft platforms, networks, identity, endpoints, collaboration technologies, and end-user computing
- Lead IT service delivery and end-user support, ensuring responsive, reliable support and a strong employee technology experience
- Build scalable infrastructure, operating processes, and standards to support continued growth and an expanding global footprint
- Drive operational excellence and reliability, including incident and problem management, root-cause resolution, monitoring, technology lifecycle management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement
- Ensure appropriate business continuity, disaster recovery, backup, and infrastructure resilience capabilities are established, tested, and maintained
- Lead technology infrastructure and operational readiness for new offices and international expansion
- Build and develop a high-performing team with strong technical capability, clear accountability, documented processes, and appropriate coverage and redundancy across critical services
- Own managed service providers and key technology vendors, establishing clear performance expectations, service levels, cost and accountability
- Partner across IT and the business to ensure infrastructure and operations meet security, compliance, and business requirements
- Serve as a trusted technology partner to the business while remaining hands-on and engaged in execution, particularly for complex issues and critical incidents
- Own the Infrastructure & IT Operations budget, including technology investments, licensing, managed services, and vendor contracts, balancing service, scalability, and cost
- Ensure infrastructure and operational practices support applicable GxP, SOX, security, privacy, and audit-readiness requirements, in partnership with Quality, Security, and Compliance
Candidate Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline
- 12+ years of progressive IT experience with leadership responsibility across infrastructure and IT operations/service delivery
- Strong technical knowledge across Microsoft 365/Azure, identity and access, endpoint management, networking, cloud technologies, and enterprise IT operations
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling IT capabilities, teams, and operating models in a growing organization
- Experience supporting a geographically distributed or global organization
- Proven ability to lead internal teams and external service providers while maintaining clear internal ownership and accountability
- Strong operational judgment with a willingness to engage directly when needed
- Biotechnology, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated-industry experience preferred
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
- 12+ years of progressive IT experience with leadership responsibility across infrastructure and IT operations or service delivery
- Strong technical knowledge of Microsoft 365 and Azure
- Strong technical knowledge of identity and access, endpoint management, networking, cloud technologies, and enterprise IT operations
- Experience building and scaling IT capabilities, teams, and operating models in a growing organization
- Experience supporting a geographically distributed or global organization
- Ability to lead internal teams and external service providers while maintaining internal ownership and accountability
- Strong operational judgment and willingness to engage directly when needed
- Biotechnology, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated-industry experience
What We Do
Scholar Rock is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and delivers life-changing therapies for people with serious diseases that have high unmet need. As a global leader in the biology of the transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) superfamily of cell proteins and named for the visual resemblance of a scholar rock to protein structures, the clinical-stage company is focused on advancing innovative treatments where protein growth factors are fundamental. Over the past decade, the company has created a pipeline with the potential to advance the standard of care for neuromuscular disease, cardiometabolic disorders, cancer, and other conditions where growth factor-targeted drugs can play a transformational role. Scholar Rock is the only company to show clinical proof of concept for a muscle-targeted treatment in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This commitment to unlocking fundamentally different therapeutic approaches is powered by broad application of a proprietary platform, which has developed novel monoclonal antibodies to modulate protein growth factors with extraordinary selectivity. By harnessing cutting-edge science in disease spaces that are historically under-addressed through traditional therapies, Scholar Rock works every day to create new possibilities for patients. Learn more about the company’s approach at ScholarRock.com and follow @ScholarRock and on LinkedIn. For additional information on our guidelines, please visit https://scholarrock.com/community-guidelines/ For more information on how Scholar Rock collects, uses, and shares personal information, please visit: https://scholarrock.com/privacy-policy
