Sr Director - R&D DDSAI - Discovery Biologics

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Job Function:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Science

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

J&J Innovative Medicine is hiring for a Sr Director - R&D DDSAI - Biologics Discovery opportunity. This position has a primary location of Spring House, PA and will require up to 25% travel.

J&J Innovative Medicine develops treatments that improve the health of people worldwide. Research and development areas encompass oncology, immunology, neuroscience, cardiopulmonary and specialty ophthalmology. Our goal is to help people live longer, healthier lives. We have produced and marketed many first-in-class prescription medications and are poised to serve the broad needs of the healthcare market — from patients to practitioners and from clinics to hospitals. To learn more about Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine visit https://innovativemedicine.jnj.com/

About the Opportunity

Help shape the next generation of Discovery Biologics by bringing together exceptional science, biologics data, lab robotics, and AI to discover better medicines for patients, faster.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is seeking an accomplished scientific and organizational leader to oversee all Data & AI activities supporting Discovery Biologics. Your mission will be to help our scientists discover the best possible molecules with speed to double our rate of clinical candidates in our already industry leading organization.

You will set the organization’s data and AI strategy for Discovery Biologics, build outstanding multidisciplinary capabilities, and translate advances in Tech, Data, & AI into productive scientific practice. Working closely with Discovery Biologics scientists and IT, you will connect molecular design, experimentation, data generation, and analytical insight into a new AI-Native Biologics engine that learns from every experiment.

Key Responsibilities

Set the Data & AI Strategy

• Define and execute an integrated strategy spanning data, advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI across Discovery Biologics.
• Translate scientific and portfolio priorities into a focused, multiyear roadmap, balancing immediate discovery needs with differentiated long-term capabilities.
• Oversee the Data & AI project portfolio, aligning investments, resources, partnerships, and delivery priorities with scientific impact.
• Serve as a senior strategic partner to the Discovery Biologics leadership team, communicating opportunities, progress, risks, and investment tradeoffs clearly.

Make AI Productive in Biologics Discovery

• Lead the development, evaluation, and deployment of AI approaches that support antibody engineering, lab data analytics, profiling, and candidate optimization.
• Partner with experimental scientists & IT to define the questions that matter, design meaningful evaluations, and translate process opportunities into project investments with clear measurable impacts
• Advance predictive, generative, and multimodal approaches where they offer demonstrable value in collaboration with our Discovery modeling and IT teams.
• Ensure promising methods become reliable, scalable capabilities embedded in discovery workflows rather than isolated proofs of concept.

Connect Molecular Design and Experimental Learning

• Partner with scientific and automation teams to connect molecular design, experimental execution, data capture, analysis, and subsequent design decisions.
• Ensure experimental data continuously strengthens models and scientific understanding.
• Enable scientists at the center of AI-enabled discovery through the use of AI tools and lab automation. Combining computational recommendations with experimental evidence and scientific reasoning.

Build Connected, AI-Ready Data Foundations

• Oversee the data strategy and engineering capabilities needed to capture, integrate, curate, and reuse Discovery Biologics data.
• Establish durable data products connecting sequence, assay results, profiling, biophysical measurements, automation outputs, and external partner datasets.
• Champion FAIR principles, semantic alignment, metadata quality, shared ontologies, and provenance.

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