Director, Commercial Data

praxisprecisionmedicines; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) match up to 6%

Stock incentives

Employee stock purchase plan

Discretionary quarterly bonus

Wellness benefits

Paid time off

Holidays and company-wide shutdowns

Job summary

Praxis Precision Medicines is seeking a senior leader to build and lead the commercial data strategy and foundation for CNS therapies as the organization prepares to launch and scale. The role connects commercial teams with data, analytics, and IT to improve reliability and usefulness for decision-making and automation.

The position may be performed remotely with travel as needed, and offers benefits aligned to a data-driven, AI-enabled commercialization program.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in commercial data, analytics, or data strategy in pharma or life sciences.
• Experience supporting pharma commercialization; launch expansion preferred.
• Ability translate business priorities into data roadmaps and investments.

Responsibilities

• Build connected, trusted data environment across customers, products, payers, patients, and engagement.
• Define data requirements, standards, ownership, and operating processes.

Skills

Data strategy

Data governance

Stakeholder leadership

AI capabilities

Analytics

IT collaboration

Tools

SQL

ETL tools

BI tools

Job description

Role overview

Build and lead the commercial data strategy and foundation for an organization preparing to launch and scale therapies for central nervous system disorders. The role connects commercial teams with data, analytics, and IT, making information more reliable and useful for decision-making, automation, and emerging AI capabilities. It may be performed remotely, with travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop a connected, trusted data environment across commercial domains such as customers, products, payers, patients, and engagement.
• Define data requirements, standards, ownership, and operating processes so information is well structured, high quality, accessible, and usable.
• Establish governance practices covering stewardship, definitions, metrics, hierarchies, metadata, business rules, and quality expectations.
• Monitor data quality, address root causes of issues, and set clear accountability for maintaining reliable information.
• Work with commercial, analytics, product, and technology teams to prioritize scalable data, analytics, automation, and AI capabilities.
• Translate business needs into roadmaps, requirements, success measures, and adoption plans, working with internal teams and external partners.

Requirements

• At least eight years of relevant experience in commercial data, analytics, commercial operations, data strategy, or a related field in pharma, biotech, or life sciences.
• Experience supporting pharmaceutical or biotech commercial operations; launch or major commercial expansion experience is preferred.
• Ability to turn commercial priorities into data strategies, capability roadmaps, and investment recommendations.
• Experience setting up data governance, ownership, quality standards, and operating processes.
• Practical understanding of AI and automation, including assessing use cases, requirements, value, feasibility, and responsible use.
• Technical fluency to work effectively with IT, data engineering, analytics, and commercial systems teams; strong communication and stakeholder leadership skills.

Nice to have

Experience supporting a product launch or a rapidly growing organization.

Benefits and work setup

Remote work is available, with travel as needed. Benefits listed include medical, dental, and vision coverage with 99% of premiums paid; company-paid life, accident, and disability coverage; a 401(k) match up to 6%; stock incentives and an employee stock purchase plan; a discretionary quarterly bonus; wellness benefits; paid time off, holidays, and company-wide shutdowns.