Executive Director, Functional AI, Process Excellence
Novartis
AI Innovation & Solutions Director
Global Strategy Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $115,000 - $170,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftAWSAzureBigQueryCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQLTensorflow
About the role
- Partner with team to ensure effective AI usage.
- Ongoing Discovery: Identify needs of the team to inform design and development of AI tools and processes.
- Advance AI Integration: Drive adoption of AI across the research lifecycle, developing best practices for its use in survey design, fielding, data analysis, and modeling.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with research and data staff to ensure AI methods meet high technical standards while delivering practical, applied value in polling and analysis.
- Translate & Communicate: Serve as a bridge between technical capabilities and business needs, clearly articulating how AI solutions improve client deliverables and organizational impact.
- Document & Track: Create internal documentation and establish a system to track development needs. Work closely with the head of the practice to prioritize updates and guide the development of AI workflows
- Monitor and boost usage and adoption: Connect with teams to identify ways to increase AI usage and adoption. Create spaces for staff to regularly share AI successes and challenges.
- Build AI Infrastructure and Workflows.
- Build and Scale Infrastructure: Design and implement processes, tools, and methods that improve efficiency and automate routine tasks.
- Develop Technical Workflows: Code, test, and deploy AI-driven workflows and pipelines; build APIs and automation scripts to connect data sources, research tools, and reporting systems.
- Prototype & Innovate: Rapidly test and evaluate emerging AI tools, refining them into scalable solutions that enhance the speed, accuracy, and creativity of research.
- Stay Ahead of Trends: Monitor and assess the evolving AI landscape to keep the organization at the forefront of research innovation.
Requirements
- Strong background in political polling and public opinion research, including questionnaire design, fielding, weighting, modeling, and analysis.
- Excellent project management skills and a proven ability to balance multiple initiatives.
- Strong communicator who can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Experience keeping leadership up to date on progress.
- Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset and comfort working in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
- Collaborative team player with a commitment to innovation.
- Willingness to help staff gain familiarity with new research tools.
- Commitment to producing effective and usable solutions for the organization.
- Need to Have
- Workflow Development: Ability to design and maintain scalable, reproducible workflows for survey design, data analysis, and reporting.
- Testing & Evaluation: Strong background in prototyping, testing new tools, and validating models to ensure accuracy and reliability.
- Programming & Automation: Experience with coding in Python, R, or similar languages for building automated workflows, data pipelines, and research tools.
- APIs & Integration: Experience developing and managing APIs to connect data sources, survey platforms, and analysis systems.
- Nice to Have
- Data Management: Skilled in database tools (e.g., SQL, cloud-based solutions such as Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake) to structure, query, and optimize datasets.
- AI/ML Tools: Hands-on experience with AI frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face) to design, test, and deploy applied models.
- Version Control & Collaboration: Knowledge of Git/GitHub or similar tools for code management, collaboration, and deployment.
- Cloud & Automation Platforms (preferred): Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure for scaling data pipelines and AI workflows.
Benefits
- excellent coverage for medical, vision, and dental insurance
- paid parental leave
- generous time off and holidays
- 401k with employer match
- additional benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
AI integrationsurvey designdata analysismodelingworkflow developmentprototypingtestingprogramming in Pythonprogramming in RAPI development
Soft skills
project managementcommunicationcollaborationinnovationself-starterentrepreneurial mindsetadaptabilityteam playerproblem-solvingleadership communication
