Executive Director, Digital Product Management - Research (AI)

Location: Remote, United States; role location listed as US - California - South San Francisco

Annual salary: $249,042–$336,940 USD, excluding Puerto Rico; actual salary varies by skills, experience, and qualifications

Company

hirify.global is a biotechnology company researching, manufacturing, and delivering medicines for serious illnesses.

What you will do

• Set and evolve the multi-year Research Technology, Data & AI strategy, linking investments to scientific priorities, portfolio impact, and measurable outcomes.
• Advise the Research Leadership Team on portfolio choices, operating plans, capital decisions, risk, and technology investment priorities.
• Own the Research technology environment, including benchtop and instrument-adjacent technology, electronic lab notebooks, LIMS, scientific workflows, and data products.
• Modernize scientific data workflows from source capture through analysis, reuse, and decision-making, with strong data quality, metadata, terminology, and governance.
• Build and lead a high-performing organization across research informatics, laboratory technology, digital products, and scientific data enablement.
• Partner with scientific, Technology, AI & Data, and external stakeholders to resolve dependencies, manage trade-offs, and communicate recommendations to executive audiences.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 6 years of technology experience, or Master’s degree and 10 years of technology experience, or Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of technology experience.
• At least 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leading teams, projects, programs, or resource allocation.
• Ability to set outcomes, OKRs, and value measures while managing prioritization, platform rationalization, build-versus-buy decisions, technical debt, risk, cost, and organizational capacity.
• Ability to deliver reliable, scalable scientific products and improve end-to-end scientist user experiences.
• Ability to build partnerships, resolve cross-functional dependencies and consequential trade-offs, and influence senior executives without relying solely on formal authority.
• Strong executive communication and storytelling skills for translating complex scientific, technical, and investment choices into recommendations and action.

Nice to have

• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience, including direct leadership of senior leaders and/or responsibility for a substantial multidisciplinary organization.
• Experience leading technology, data, digital, informatics, or computational capabilities in a research-intensive life sciences environment.
• Scientific credibility and experience building trust with scientists across small molecules, biologics, DNA-encoded libraries, antibody-drug conjugates, disease biology, or translational science.
• Experience setting multi-year strategy and leading enterprise-scale changes across laboratory technology, scientific software, data platforms, scientific workflows, or research informatics.
• Experience creating and scaling scientific data products, FAIR data practices, metadata and terminology capabilities, and integrated data-to-insight workflows.
• Judgment across cloud platforms, architecture, laboratory systems, data engineering, analytics, and vendor ecosystems.
• Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical research, or another highly regulated, technology-intensive environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, innovative, science-based, and inclusive work environment.
• Health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and flexible spending accounts.
• Retirement and savings plan with company contributions, stock-based long-term incentives, and an annual discretionary bonus program.
• Paid time-off plans and biannual company-wide shutdowns.
• Career development opportunities and flexible work models where applicable.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for applicants and employees with disabilities.