Causal Inference Product Owner Clinical Design Modeling and Simulation within Digital

Sanofi; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 134,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

14 weeks' parental leave

Health and wellbeing benefits

OpenAI partnerships

Job summary

Sanofi seeks a Causal Inference Product Owner within Digital Clinical Development in Morristown, NJ to lead AI-driven Evidence Generation and Decision Sciences. Drive real-world evidence causal modeling from vision to value, align roadmaps with business goals, and guide agile, cross-functional teams.

Join a team advancing AI-powered biopharma pipelines, delivering measurable outcomes to shorten development cycles and reduce risk and costs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management or complex digital solution development.
• 3+ years model development or data science.
• Healthcare/biotech experience with clinical datasets preferred.
• Expert knowledge of causal modeling and causal inference.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication.
• Proficiency in AI technologies and agile/lean methodologies.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Miro, Lucidchart, data querying, UX/UI.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Define and execute product roadmaps aligned with business objectives
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with leadership across Digital Data Science, Translational Medicine, Development teams, and Clinical Operations to drive product adoption
• Value Delivery: Define, track, and optimize product metrics and business outcomes, ensuring measurable impact each sprint
• Product Ownership: Manage product backlog prioritization and serve as primary decision-maker for product features and requirements
• Technical Leadership: Guide AI product development from pre-clinical through real-world evidence integration
• Project Management: Lead cross-functional delivery teams through agile methodologies, ensuring on-time delivery of product increments

Skills

Product management

Data science

Causal modeling

AI technologies

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

SQL

Jira

Confluence

Education

Degree in Life Sciences or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Miro

Lucidchart

SQL

Job description

Job Title: Causal Inference Product Owner Clinical Design Modeling and Simulation within Digital.

Location: Morristown, NJ

About The Job

Lead AI product strategy and delivery for Evidence Generation and Decision Sciences from within Digital Clinical Development, acting as a strategic product leader who bridges business objectives with technical execution. Drive end-to-end Real-World Evidence based causal inference modeling product ownership from vision to value delivery, leveraging AI and data analytics to transform drug development processes. Provide strategic direction for high-impact, measurable products aimed at reducing clinical development cycle-time, minimizing development risk, and optimizing costs through innovative quantitative approaches and agentic AI solutions. Join the digital engine driving Sanofi's transformation - where AI, automation, and bold experimentation power faster science and smarter decisions. Here you'll help build the first biopharma company powered by AI at scale.

About Sanofi

We're an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives.

Main Responsibilities

• Strategic Planning: Define and execute product roadmaps aligned with business objectives
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with leadership across Digital Data Science, Translational Medicine, Development teams, and Clinical Operations to drive product adoption
• Value Delivery: Define, track, and optimize product metrics and business outcomes, ensuring measurable impact each sprint
• Product Ownership: Manage product backlog prioritization and serve as primary decision-maker for product features and requirements
• Technical Leadership: Guide AI product development from pre-clinical through real-world evidence integration
• Project Management: Lead cross-functional delivery teams through agile methodologies, ensuring on-time delivery of product increments

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management or complex digital solution development
• 3+ years model development or data science
• Healthcare/biotech experience with clinical datasets preferred
• Expert knowledge of causal modeling and causal inference; familiarity with knowledge graphs, foundation models and Real World Evidence analytics
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication: ability to elicit, analyze, and synthesize requirements from diverse stakeholders across multiple organizational levels, translate complex technical concepts into business language and vice versa, manage conflicting priorities and negotiating trade-offs
• Strong business analysis and problem solving: ability to gather requirements and create user stories and process flows, analyze gaps and develop future state maps, perform root cause analysis and develop hypotheses, develop business cases and analyze ROI, drive data-based decision making
• Demonstrated ability to think and influence strategically: ability to connect projects and products to organizational goals and impact, drive change management and adoption of technical solutions, challenge assumptions and provide objective recommendations, and build trust with key stakeholders
• Proficiency in AI technologies, clinical development applications, and agile/lean methodologies
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Miro, Lucidchart, system integration and data flows, SQL or other data querying capabilities, and UX/UI principles and user centered design thinking

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
• Strong preference for candidates with both scientific and data science backgrounds.

Why Choose Us

Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team. Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally. Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact. Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave. Join the digital force behind Sanofi's AI-powered pipeline, where Expert, Generative, and Snackable AI accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of breakthrough treatments to patients. Help reduce time from discovery to commercialization, delivering life-changing medicines to patients faster than ever.

• Benefit from pioneering partnerships with OpenAI, AQEMIA, IBM, and others.
• Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.

The salary range for this position is: $133.500,00 - $192.833,33

All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

We are an R&D driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and creating compelling growth. Our team is guided by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We want to build a healthier, more resilient world, and turn the impossible into the possible by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines and vaccines for millions of people around the world. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi Start a career that makes a difference. Reinvention is in our DNA. It’s what drove our evolution from a small French enterprise to one of the world’s leading biopharma companies. Whether it’s using AI to shorten drug-discovery times or building trust in healthcare, you could be helping our teams make life better for patients, partners, and communities. This is where you grow your career. We open the door for you to explore new opportunities, push your limits, and connect with people who are driven by a shared purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.