Director, IT Business Solutions Partner – People and Legal
BridgeBio Pharma•San Francisco, CA
•Hybrid
About The Position
This is a hybrid role based in BridgeBio’s San Francisco office, with an in-office collaboration cadence of 3-4 days per week. This is a compelling opportunity to join a high-impact, dynamic team as an individual contributor, shaping the IT roadmap and business strategy that help accelerate life-changing treatments for patients.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent; ~8+ years delivering enterprise-ready People and Legal technology with 3+ years at a senior technical or architect level.
- Deep, hands-on experience in enterprise platform architecture, SaaS implementations, API and data design, security and production operations.
- Proven experience defining multi-year technology roadmaps and translating them into executable programs and KPIs.
- Proven experience defining and delivering enterprise-wide AI strategy, sponsoring pilots and scaling production services with governance and cross-functional adoption.
- Prior experience in Workday (design, deployment, enterprise integrations); familiarity with VNDLY and Greenhouse.
- Prior experience in CLM, commercial compliance, matter and invoicing systems in production.
- Proven ability to run technical RFPs, negotiate contracts, own SLAs and run vendor governance and remediation.
- Able to define acceptance criteria, evaluate vendor deliverables and approve production releases.
- Experience with incident response, monitoring, continuous improvement and delivering in SOX/GxP/privacy contexts.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, present technical cases and drive adoption across functions.
Nice To Haves
- Domain flexibility: detailed People and Legal business-process knowledge is helpful but not required; you will partner with subject-matter experts for process definition.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical architecture and platform engineering leadership for People and Legal: design reference architectures, define platform capabilities and integration requirements, and set technical acceptance criteria for vendors.
- Own the 12–36 month technology & AI roadmap for People and Legal; prioritize investments, publish KPIs and make technical/vendor decisions within delegated authority.
- Lead enterprise-wide AI strategy: sponsor pilots, scale successful pilots into production services, enforce governance/privacy controls and represent IT in cross-functional AI governance.
- Partner with People Operations and Legal Operations to co-create governance, change-control and escalation models; deliver technical guidance, runbooks and training while respecting business system ownership.
- Collaborate on the delivery and stewardship for People platforms: define technical requirements, manage vendor execution, support testing and go-live, and enable steady-state operations for Workday, VNDLY, Greenhouse and related systems.
- Drive CLM and Legal and Compliance systems: lead selection and operational rollout of an enterprise CLM; steward matter/invoicing and commercial compliance tooling and ensure vendors deliver required finance/identity integrations.
- Lead the vendor lifecycle for medium/large investments: RFPs, technical selection, contracting, commercial negotiation and vendor governance.
- Own vendor commercial terms and SLAs; coordinate security/privacy/compliance assessments with IT Security and Legal; run quarterly governance and maintain vendor scorecards.
- Provide technical oversight to vendors and contingent workers: set acceptance criteria, review technical deliverables, approve production releases in scope, and drive remediation or decommissioning when contractual or security standards are not met.
- Own operational readiness and post-launch support: incident response, monitoring dashboards, continuous improvement and audit readiness (SOX/GxP/privacy).
Benefits
- Market-leading compensation
- 401(k) with employer match
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Pre-tax commuter benefits (transit and parking)
- Referral bonus for hired candidates
- Subsidized lunch and parking on in-office days
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
- Health Savings Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions, plus Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Fertility & family-forming benefits
- Expanded mental health support (therapy and coaching resources)
- Flexible, “take-what-you-need” paid time off and company-paid holidays
- Comprehensive paid medical and parental leave to care for yourself and your family
- Career pathing through regular feedback, continuous education and professional development programs via LinkedIn Learning, LifeLabs, & BetterUp Coaching
- Financial rewards, peer-to-peer recognition, and growth opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
