Senior Director, AI Transformation (AI)

Location: Washington DC, United States; hybrid workplace with regular travel to client and team meetings.

Company

hirify.global brings together advisory, medical, and marketing teams to support better healthcare outcomes for every patient.

What you will do

• Advise senior pharmaceutical client stakeholders on AI priorities, investment, sequencing, and risk.
• Develop and maintain an AI transformation roadmap, governance forums, decision pathways, and executive reporting.
• Lead workshops and workflow reviews to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into solution briefs, scopes, delivery plans, and actionable requirements.
• Mobilize AI, product, data, domain, and client specialists to guide use cases from prototype and pilot through evaluation, production, launch, and handover.
• Redesign workflows, roles, controls, and handoffs to embed AI into day-to-day operations.
• Build adoption through playbooks, training, champions, office hours, feedback loops, and value measurement.

Requirements

• Typically 12 or more years of experience in transformation, consulting, digital product, innovation, or client leadership, including significant pharma or life-sciences experience.
• Strong record of advising and influencing senior leaders in complex, matrixed organizations.
• Experience moving AI, analytics, or automation from discovery and pilot into adopted and governed workflows.
• Practical understanding of large language models, agent workflows, model evaluation, data and integration requirements, safety, and reliability.
• Expertise in process mapping, workflow redesign, operating-model change, adoption, enablement, and benefits realization.
• Excellent facilitation, writing, executive presentation, communication, and judgment skills.

Nice to have

• Experience across Medical, Commercial, Market Access, Insights, and Content Operations.
• Familiarity with responsible AI, privacy, medical and regulatory review, MLR, and life-sciences platforms.
• Experience shaping prototypes, evaluating model outputs, and creating playbooks, champion networks, or communities of practice.

Culture & Benefits

• Dedicated allocation to one strategic pharmaceutical client.
• Matrix leadership across hirify.global and client teams.
• Flexible remote or hybrid working arrangements with regular in-person meetings.
• Collaboration with the Global Client Lead and Co-Intelligence Centre.