Associate Director AI Activation

Location: Rahway, New Jersey, United States; hybrid work arrangement

Base salary: $156,900–$247,000 per year, plus possible annual bonus and long-term incentive

Company

hirify.global is a pharmaceutical company developing commercial solutions across Specialty, Pharma, and Infectious Diseases business units.

What you will do

• Own the technical design and end-to-end delivery of strategic AI initiatives from ideation and prototyping through deployment and adoption.
• Design and build generative AI and agentic solutions, including LLM applications, RAG, multi-agent workflows, tool and API integrations, and simulation or scenario-planning capabilities.
• Define scalable architectures, reusable components, delivery guardrails, and evaluation approaches covering accuracy, groundedness, reliability, latency, cost, and safety.
• Lead MLOps and LLMOps practices, including versioning, CI/CD, monitoring, and model lifecycle management.
• Run AI pilots for field and customer engagement, targeting support, forecast validation, barrier analysis, and causal inference, partnering with brand, Market Engagement, commercial analytics, IT, vendors, and delivery partners.
• Champion responsible AI, data privacy, security, model validation, enterprise governance, technical capability building, and mentoring.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, applied data science, or a related technical field, including at least 2 years of hands-on experience building generative AI or LLM-based solutions.
• Prior pharmaceutical or healthcare industry experience.
• Deep expertise in LLMs and generative AI, including RAG, embeddings, vector databases, agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or Semantic Kernel, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning.
• Experience taking AI solutions from prototype to enterprise-scale production, including solution architecture, APIs, cloud AI services such as Google Cloud Vertex AI or Amazon Bedrock, and MLOps/LLMOps.
• Experience designing AI evaluation frameworks and guardrails based on responsible AI principles and governance.
• Advanced Python and SQL skills; experience with Databricks or similar platforms; strong software engineering practices including Git, testing, and CI/CD; and a solid foundation in machine learning and statistics.
• Ability to explain complex AI concepts in plain business language and apply a product mindset focused on user needs, adoption, and measurable business value.
• Experience aligning brand, Market Engagement, IT, and cross-functional stakeholders, managing scope, and maintaining strong relationships.
• People or matrix leadership experience, including cross-functional teams, global collaborators, and external delivery partners or vendors.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with resilience and adaptability in ambiguity and a fast-moving AI landscape.
• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical discipline.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement.
• Medical, dental, vision, and other insurance benefits for employees and families.
• Retirement benefits including a 401(k).
• Paid holidays, vacation, compassionate leave, and sick days.
• Inclusive environment focused on bringing together diverse experiences, perspectives, skills, and backgrounds.