Director - Analytics Strategy and Innovation (AI)

Location: New York City, United States; hybrid work arrangement. Candidates must have permanent authorization to work in the United States.

Annual base salary: $176,600–$294,300, plus a 20% bonus target and eligibility for a share-based long-term incentive program.

Company

hirify.global is a pharmaceutical and healthcare company advancing commercial analytics and AI transformation.

What you will do

• Lead one to two complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives from business case and problem definition through execution, deployment, and adoption.
• Develop business cases, integrated program plans, roadmaps, milestones, decision points, accountabilities, and portfolio metrics.
• Partner with product owners, analytics, data science, data engineering, technology, platform, vendor, commercial, marketing, operations, and finance teams.
• Translate between business, analytics, data science, and technology stakeholders while managing scope, sequencing, dependencies, risks, trade-offs, and decisions.
• Lead executive communications, OKR development, outcome tracking, change management, training, and adoption planning.
• Support portfolio strategy, identify innovation opportunities, challenge waste, and recommend improvements in commercial analytics and AI.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 8 years of experience, or master’s degree with at least 7 years of experience, or PhD with 5+ years of experience.
• Progressive experience leading programs or initiatives in commercial analytics, analytics or AI transformation, or related settings.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives end to end, including planning, issue resolution, executive communication, and delivery outcomes.
• Experience developing business cases and roadmaps, prioritizing with KPI/OKR methodology, and managing portfolio trade-offs.
• Experience leading teams through significant change in a dynamic, results-driven environment.
• Ability to work across business, analytics, data science, and technology teams and translate between them.
• Strong influencing-without-authority, written, verbal, presentation, information-filtering, ownership, collaboration, customer-service, and integrity skills.
• Ability to manage conflicting ideas, include diverse voices, make difficult decisions, perform business discovery, simplify problems, and propose solutions.
• Healthcare or life sciences experience with an understanding of commercial processes, plus leadership experience developing and coaching others.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering analytics or AI capabilities into a commercial organization from strategy through implementation and adoption, including platform integration, migration, or deployment.
• Management consulting, project leadership, engagement management, or internal strategy and transformation experience, ideally with pharmaceutical or life sciences clients.
• Experience working with product owners, delivery teams, vendors, consulting partners, managed services, or data and technology partners.
• Experience in market research or insights transformation, including AI-enabled primary market research.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical commercial analytics such as forecasting, market research, customer analytics, and performance measurement.
• Program management or Agile training such as PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, CSM, or SAFe.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in New York City.
• Participation in hirify.global’s Global Performance Plan with a 20% bonus target and share-based long-term incentive eligibility.
• Benefits include 401(k) matching and retirement contributions, paid vacation and holidays, personal days, caregiver/parental and medical leave, and medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage.
• Relocation support may be available based on business needs and eligibility.
• hirify.global promotes an empowering, inclusive, collaborative, and considerate team culture.
• U.S. work visa sponsorship is not available now or in the future.