Associate Director, AI Tech Lead

Role Summary

Associate Director for AI Tech Lead in the Insights and Decision Science (IDS) team, located in East Hanover, NJ. This role drives the strategic integration of artificial intelligence into product offerings, leading the development and prototyping of AI-based solutions and translating business requirements into architecture and roadmaps to support use case prototypes or market-ready products. The role collaborates with business users and the IDS team to demonstrate capabilities, translate requirements into innovative solutions, and enable AI-powered improvements in patient outcomes and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with US business partners and IDS team members to understand their business objectives and provide tailored AI solutions.
• Translate business requirements and objectives into technical requirements needed to assess feasibility and support prototype development.
• Build solutions and roadmaps for innovative projects, focusing on quick/agile rollout of tools, testing, and iterating plans to improve and launch quickly.
• Create detailed design frameworks that define how the application will be structured and how components will interact, to support scalability and integration with existing platforms and systems.
• Contribute credible insights to strategic reviews and analysis and apply a whole-market perspective to enable deep customer understanding.
• Own the development of solution architecture to support use-case prototypes.
• Collaborate with a diverse team to pull through the solution roadmap and oversee the development of AI prototypes.
• Support testing/UAT from key users and stakeholders across the business.
• Ensure the prototype addresses key business questions such as improving patient outcomes or enhancing manufacturing processes.
• Oversee rapid testing of PoC and MVP builds to reduce risk before full development.
• Able to clearly articulate the potential benefits of AI models to address business needs with a wide range of audiences, including lay audiences.
• Act as an AI role model, championing a culture that embraces cutting-edge AI technologies and encourages experimentation and adoption of best practices.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Preferred: Master of Science and/or MBA.
• Required: 6-8 years of experience in tech development in the healthcare industry, including full-stack development experience.
• Required: Extensive experience building relationships with stakeholders to translate AI and technology innovations into business value.
• Required: Highly proficient in building AI product prototypes, working in conjunction with data science teams.
• Required: Demonstrated ability to oversee the entire AI product development process, with experience creating solution roadmaps.
• Required: Strong data analytics, AI, and machine learning background.
• Required: Strategic planning capability combined with an outstanding ability to drive execution with a focus on directing operational enhancements to increase quality and effectiveness.
• Required: Proven teamwork, collaboration, and people management skills.
• Required: Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, multifunctional environment.
• Required: Strong communication skills and experience explaining highly technical information to a wide range of audiences.