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Alkermes is hiring a Associate Director, Information Security, Data Protection — a full-time, based in Waltham, MA role. Apply directly on Alkermes's careers page below.
Associate Director, Information Security-Data Protection
Location: Waltham, MA, United States
We are seeking a highly motivated, hands-on security leader with broad information security expertise and demonstrated technical depth in Data Protection. This senior technical leadership role will be responsible for advancing the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data protection capabilities across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, and on-premises environments.
In this role, the Associate Director will partner with Data Governance and business stakeholders to translate enterprise data classification and handling requirements into appropriate technical controls, leveraging Microsoft Purview capabilities and other data protection technologies to support effective implementation and enforcement.
As a senior member of the Information Security leadership team, the Associate Director will also manage a small team of security analysts and provide leadership, oversight and strategic direction across key security programs, including Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), Security Awareness, Vulnerability Management and Security Operations. The role will help ensure these programs operate effectively, risks are appropriately prioritized and escalated, and program owners have clear objectives, accountability and management support.
The successful candidate will bring the technical depth, leadership, and practical judgment needed to strengthen data protection across the enterprise while helping mature the broader Information Security program. This position reports to the Director of Information Security.
About Us
Why join Team Alkermes?
Alkermes applies its decades of deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we seek to make a meaningful difference in the way people manage their diseases. We have a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder and narcolepsy, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various psychiatric and neurological disorders.
We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations. In 2024 and 2025, we were certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. and named one of Massachusetts’ Top Places to Work by the Boston Globe, a Best Place to Work in Greater Cincinnati by the Cincinnati Business Courier and recognized as a Best Place to Work in BioPharma by Fortune Magazine.
Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law. Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.
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