Associate Director, Clinical Data Management - User Research - Hybrid

Location: Hybrid; primary location: Rahway, New Jersey, USA. The site is for residents of the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

Salary: $142,400–$224,100 annual base salary for the primary location; annual bonus and long-term incentive may also apply.

Company

hirify.global develops pharmaceutical and healthcare solutions and operates regulated clinical and data environments.

What you will do

• Lead prioritization and delivery of technical solutions, product roadmaps, system backlogs, and release plans.
• Translate business processes, data workflows, integrations, and user insights into technical requirements and platform recommendations.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Product, QA, Operations, and vendors to design, test, and deploy scalable, secure automation and integration solutions.
• Facilitate UX, design-thinking, governance, steering, workshop, demo, and decision-making sessions.
• Lead SDLC, validation, release-readiness, data-quality, business-continuity, and audit activities in regulated environments.
• Develop business cases, stakeholder engagement strategies, training materials, communications, and organizational-readiness plans.

Requirements

• Non-degree or associate’s degree plus at least 10 years of relevant experience, or bachelor’s degree plus at least 8 years, or master’s/doctoral degree plus at least 4 years.
• Relevant experience must include business system ownership, product ownership, project or business leadership, or SDLC/Agile delivery.
• Mastery of SDLC and deep knowledge of computerized system validation, including 21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11, and audit-ready documentation.
• Experience with discovery, fit-gap analysis, configuration versus customization, and authoring URS, FS, DS, and RTM documentation.
• Ability to interpret API and ETL specifications, mappings, and error logs; design cross-system test scenarios; and work with SQL and query optimization.
• Experience defining data-quality checks, building operational and compliance reports and KPIs, and managing releases in validated environments.
• Ability to create wireframes and prototypes, facilitate workshops, document decisions and acceptance criteria, and work within Scrum or Scaled Agile.
• Experience with process mining, analytics, project-management tools, issue tracking, and backlog prioritization.
• Strong strategic planning, communication, stakeholder influencing, negotiation, mentoring, decision-making, conflict resolution, and cross-functional networking skills.

Nice to have

• Clinical Data Management experience.
• Influencing skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with a regular first-shift daytime schedule.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, insurance, retirement, 401(k), paid holiday, vacation, compassionate, and sick-day benefits.
• Annual bonus and long-term incentive eligibility may apply.
• Travel requirements are 10%; no valid driving license or hazardous-material handling is required.
• hirify.global promotes inclusion, diverse perspectives, respectful challenge, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Visa sponsorship is not available, and relocation is not provided.

Hiring process

• Applications are submitted through the hirify.global careers site; current employees and contingent workers use the designated internal application routes.
• The posting is effective until 11:59 PM on November 17, 2026, one day before the listed November 18, 2026 end date.