Associate Director, AI Tech Lead

Role Summary

Associate Director, AI Tech Lead - East Hanover, NJ. Lead strategic integration of artificial intelligence into product offerings, driving generative and agentic AI initiatives to support IDS goals and deliver market-ready AI-enabled solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain trust-based relationships with US business partners and IDS team to understand objectives and provide tailored AI solutions
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements to assess feasibility and support prototype development
• Build solutions and roadmaps for innovative projects with quick/agile rollout, testing, and iterative improvement
• Create design frameworks defining application structure and component interactions for scalability and integration
• Contribute insights to strategic reviews and apply market perspective to deepen customer understanding
• Own the development of solution architecture to support use case prototypes
• Collaborate with a diverse team to execute solution roadmaps and oversee AI prototype development
• Support testing/UAT from key users/stakeholders
• Ensure prototypes address business questions such as patient outcomes or manufacturing improvements
• Oversee rapid testing of PoC and MVPs to reduce risk before full development
• Articulate potential benefits of AI models to a wide range of audiences
• Champion a culture embracing cutting-edge AI technologies and best practices

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of experience in tech development in healthcare, including full-stack development
• Experience building relationships with stakeholders to translate AI innovations into business value
• Proficiency in building AI product prototypes in collaboration with data science teams
• Ability to oversee entire AI product development process and create solution roadmaps
• Strong data analytics, AI, and machine learning background
• Strategic planning with strong execution to drive operational improvements
• Proven teamwork, collaboration, and people management skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, multifunctional environment
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical information to diverse audiences

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a related field required; Master of Science and/or MBA preferred