Associate Director, AI Product Manager

GlaxoSmithKline; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic leader to drive AI product vision and strategy. This pivotal role involves collaborating with a talented cross-functional team to innovate and deliver high-quality AI solutions that enhance clinical trial effectiveness and patient outcomes. You will identify opportunities, establish clear roadmaps, and promote AI adoption while ensuring alignment with strategic goals. Join a forward-thinking company committed to making a positive impact on health and well-being, where your contributions will help shape the future of AI in biopharma. Embrace this exciting opportunity to lead in a rapidly evolving environment and make a difference in the lives of billions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management with AI/ML expertise.
• Programming skills in R, SQL, or Python for data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI product vision and strategy aligned with R&D goals.
• Collaborate with experts to develop simulation modeling solutions.

Skills

Product Management

AI/ML Domain Expertise

Creative Problem-Solving

Collaboration

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Bioinformatics

Bachelor’s degree in Applied Math

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Azure DevOps

Databricks

Azure AI Stack

GCP AI Stack

DSPy

Job description

Site Name: Philadelphia Walnut Street, Durham Blackwell Street, Mississauga Milverton Drive, Waltham
Posted Date: Mar 31 2025

Join GSK's dynamic team to lead the AI product vision and strategy, driving innovative solutions that align with our R&D goals in target choice, patient identification, molecule design and clinical trial effectiveness. Motivate and guide a cross-functional team to meet milestones. Collaborate with experts to develop high-quality simulation modeling and analytical solutions. Shape the future of AI at GSK by establishing clear roadmaps, promoting adoption, and delivering industry-leading products.

Responsibilities:

• Take the lead in identifying ambitious opportunities and shaping AI product vision, strategy, and roadmaps in alignment with GSK's R&D goals.
• Drive innovation by proactively exploring, adopting, and testing novel AI technologies, using creative problem-solving to address business pain points while leveraging partnerships and market insights.
• Lead and motivate a cross-functional team of machine learning developers, engineers, and domain experts to achieve product milestones.
• Compute, analyze, and document AI model performance metrics while identifying and implementing strategies to enhance model accuracy and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts in pre-clinical research, clinical trial design and operation, precision medicine, regulatory science, and CMC to achieve scientifically sound and high-quality simulation modeling and analytical solutions.
• Establish clear AI roadmaps and ensure stakeholder alignment throughout the product life cycle.
• Promote AI adoption through creating intuitive user experiences, developing effective training programs, and iterating based on feedback to maximize impact.
• Understand GSK's strategic and competitive position and deliver AI products that are aligned with our mission and recognized best in the industry.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, bioinformatics, applied math, statistics or engineering
• 5+ years product management experience with domain specific expertise in AI/ML
• 2+ years experience in one or more life science R&D domain areas: pre-clinical research, clinical trial design and operation, precision medicine, regulatory science, chemistry, and manufacturing and controls (CMC).
• Experience in Agile tool kits such as JIRA or Azure DevOps
• Experience of AI/ML model metrics (e.g., F1 and AI-contents evaluation metrics) including human-in-the-loop (HITL) AI/ML monitoring.
• Programming experience (R/SQL/Python) analyzing data sets and making decisions based on data.
• Experience with prompt engineering techniques to improve solution accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing the full AI product lifecycle, including incorporating customer feedback into product requirements, prioritizing features, and overseeing both pre- and post-launch activities.
• Experience working in a technical environment with a broad, cross functional team to drive product vision, define product requirements, coordinate resources from other groups (design, legal, procurement, etc.), and guide the team through key milestones.
• Proficiency in AI-based tools in market research, product requirement, and user research to enhance efficiency.
• Enthusiastic and resilient in a constantly evolving environment where the process is fluid and creative solutions are key.
• Hands-on experience in databricks, Azure AI stack, or GCP AI stack.
• Hands-on experience with prompt programming such as DSPy.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in technical presentations and team objective and milestone reporting.

#LI-GSK

Why GSK?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.