Director, Commercial Data & AI Enablement

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc.; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 214,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. is seeking a Director, Commercial Data to own the strategy and build the data foundation powering smarter decisions across the commercial organization.

You will work at the intersection of Commercial, Data & Analytics, and IT to turn business priorities into high-impact data solutions, enabling AI-enabled decision-making and scalable analytics as the company launches and scales.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in commercial data, analytics, commercial operations, data strategy, or related roles within pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences organizations.
• Experience supporting pharmaceutical or biotechnology commercial operations, ideally including a product launch or significant commercial expansion.
• Demonstrated ability to translate commercial priorities into a data strategy, capability roadmap, and investment recommendations, ideally in a launch or rapidly growing organization.
• Experience establishing data governance, ownership, quality standards, and operating processes that improve trust in and use of data.
• Practical understanding of AI and automation, with the ability to assess use cases, define business requirements, and evaluate value, feasibility, and responsible use.
• Ability to partner effectively with IT, data engineering, analytics, and commercial systems teams, with sufficient technical fluency to guide business decisions and delivery priorities.
• Strong communication and changing leadership skills, with a track record of influencing stakeholders, managing external partners, and driving adoption in a fast-moving environment.
• Requires regular screen time and focus; reasonable accommodations available.

Responsibilities

• Build and advance a trusted commercial data environment across customer, product, payer, patient, engagement, and other critical commercial data domains.
• Establish the business requirements, standards, ownership, and operating model needed to ensure commercial data is connected, well-defined, high quality, accessible, and ready to support analytics and AI.
• Advance commercial data readiness to support emerging AI capabilities.
• Partner with business, analytics, product, and technology teams to identify high-value opportunities, define the data and business context required, and develop reusable capabilities that scale across commercial functions rather than isolated solutions.
• Establish and lead a commercial data governance framework that ensures data is trusted, consistent, and fit for purpose across reporting, analytics, automation, and AI. Define clear data ownership, stewardship, quality standards, common definitions, hierarchies, metrics, metadata, and business rules.
• Proactively monitor data quality, resolve issues at their root cause, and establish accountability for maintaining trusted data as the business scales.
• Partner across Commercial, Data & Analytics, and IT to identify and prioritize opportunities where data, analytics, automation, and AI can improve decision-making and commercial execution.
• Translate business priorities into actionable capabilities, establish clear ownership and success measures, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners to drive adoption, measurable business impact, and scalable ways of working.

Skills

8+ years experience

Data governance

AI & Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Job description

Praxis Precision Medicines, Inc. is seeking a Director, Commercial Data to own the strategy and build the data foundation powering smarter decisions across the commercial organization.

You will work at the intersection of Commercial, Data & Analytics, and IT to turn business priorities into high-impact data solutions, enabling AI-enabled decision-making and scalable analytics as the company launches and scales.