Manager, Data Science & AI Delivery Lead – Clinical Development and Medical Affairs

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Manager, Data Science & AI Delivery Lead – Clinical Development and Medical Affairs

As part of our enterprise AI strategy to speed life-changing therapies to patients, we are seeking a Manager, Data Science & AI Delivery Lead to design, develop and deliver advanced analytics, machine learning and generative AI solutions across Clinical Development and Medical Affairs. This role combines hands-on data science leadership with end-to-end delivery accountability, translating high-value business and scientific problems into validated, scalable and adopted data products.

The successful candidate will lead data exploration, feature engineering, model development, experimentation and evaluation while coordinating multidisciplinary teams from discovery through production. The role will partner with clinical, medical and technology stakeholders to ensure solutions are scientifically credible, technically robust, compliant, measurable and integrated into business workflows.

This position is based in Raleigh, North Carolina (hybrid-eligible).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead discovery with Clinical Development and Medical Affairs stakeholders to define analytical questions, hypotheses, target outcomes, success measures and product requirements.
• Perform hands-on data exploration, data preparation, feature engineering, statistical analysis and model prototyping using clinical, operational, medical and scientific datasets.
• Design, develop and evaluate machine learning, natural language processing and generative AI solutions appropriate to the business problem, data quality and regulated context.
• Establish rigorous experimentation and evaluation approaches, including baseline comparisons, error analysis, robustness testing, explainability, bias assessment and human-in-the-loop review.
• Translate prototypes into production-ready solutions by partnering with data engineering, MLOps, architecture, platform, security, privacy and quality teams.
• Own end-to-end delivery for assigned data science and AI products, including scope, roadmap, backlog, sprint execution, dependencies, release readiness, adoption and continuous improvement.
• Develop epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and validation evidence that connect model performance to user needs and measurable business or scientific outcomes.
• Guide data scientists and delivery partners on analytical methods, coding quality, reproducibility, documentation, model evaluation and responsible AI practices.
• Support development and monitoring of data pipelines, feature stores, model services, APIs and analytical applications using approved enterprise platforms.
• Define and track data quality, model performance, drift, reliability, user adoption, cycle-time improvement and value-realization metrics.
• Ensure solutions comply with applicable data governance, privacy, security, validation and GxP requirements.
• Maintain model documentation, experiment records, technical specifications, operating procedures and production-support runbooks.

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