Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Novartis is a leading global healthcare company, and they are seeking an Executive Director, AI Forward Deployed Engineering Lead to drive AI transformation. This role involves leading the engineering delivery of AI solutions, collaborating with business teams to design and deploy scalable solutions that improve patient outcomes and business processes.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the engineering strategy, delivery model, and execution approach for forward deployed agentic AI solutions across business functions
- Oversee the design, development, implementation, and ongoing support of AI solutions that transform business processes and products into agentic workflows
- Partner directly with business stakeholders, product teams, and domain experts to identify requirements, shape technical solutions, and ensure adoption in operational environments
- Lead engineering teams in building, deploying, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and user centered AI applications aligned with enterprise architecture and standards
- Drive integration of AI solutions with existing systems, data sources, workflows, and operational processes to enable effective end to end execution
- Establish engineering practices, support models, and feedback loops that promote quality, reliability, operational performance, and continuous improvement
- Coordinate closely with platform, data, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure solutions leverage shared capabilities and comply with enterprise requirements
- Communicate engineering priorities, solution progress, business impact, risks, and resource needs to senior leadership and key stakeholders
Skills
- Bachelor degree required and advanced degree preferred, ideally in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field
- 15 plus years of progressive product management experience, including significant leadership over senior product leaders, with a strong track record of defining and scaling enterprise level product strategy and execution
- Deep expertise in AI driven product management, including experience bringing innovative data, machine learning, and generative AI products from concept to commercialization in complex enterprise environments
- Proven people leadership and organizational development capability, with experience leading directors and senior product teams, building high performing organizations, and establishing effective product operating models and governance
- Strong cross functional and executive influence skills, with demonstrated success partnering across Engineering, Innovation, Commercial, Data Science, and business leadership to align strategy, prioritize investments, and drive outcomes
Benefits
- A performance-based cash incentive
- Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards
- A comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits
- A 401(k) with company contribution and match
- A variety of other benefits
- A generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
Company Overview
Novartis is a pharmaceutical company that researches and develops medicines for serious diseases to improve and extend people's lives. It is a sub-organization of Meye Asset Management. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Basel, Basel-Stadt, CHE, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.novartis.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Novartis has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 14 in 2025, 27 in 2024, 23 in 2023, 27 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 25 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.