Director, Global Laboratory Digital Platform & Innovation

Merck & Co.; West Point (PA); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangements

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Merck & Co. invites a Director of Digital Laboratory Platform to lead product strategy and end-to-end delivery across R&D, manufacturing, quality, and IT. You will translate needs into a scalable roadmap, improving accessibility, context, and decision-making across the laboratory network.

You combine product ownership with strong technical acumen to design user-centered experiences, orchestrate cross-functional teams, and ensure measurable benefits while upholding governance and risk controls.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of progressive experience in digital product management or related field.
• Demonstrated success leading a significant digital product or platform across discovery, experience design, delivery, rollout, adoption, and continued evolution.
• Strong command of product ownership and product strategy, including opportunity framing, continuous discovery, roadmap development, and user engagement.
• Experience convening and influencing stakeholders across scientific, operational, product, design, data, and technology domains.

Responsibilities

• Shape Product Strategy, Operating Model, and Cross-Domain Opportunities.
• Lead Outside-In Innovation perspective and disciplined exploration.
• Provide product leadership from discovery to continuous evolution and engagement with users.
• Define implementation, rollout, and adoption strategies across sites and functions.
• Mobilize a multidisciplinary delivery network including design, architecture, engineering, data, and security.
• Translate product choices into secure, scalable, interoperable capabilities with API/Open data considerations.
• Establish value realization measures and ongoing governance for lifecycle management.
• Integrate risk, quality, security, and investment decisions into product roadmaps.

Skills

Product management

Product ownership

Stakeholder influence

Strategic thinking

Cross-domain collaboration

Technical acumen

Startup experience

Leadership in product teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Business, Design

Tools

APIs

Cloud platforms

Data platforms

Job description

Merck & Co. invites a Director of Digital Laboratory Platform to lead product strategy and end-to-end delivery across R&D, manufacturing, quality, and IT. You will translate needs into a scalable roadmap, improving accessibility, context, and decision-making across the laboratory network.

You combine product ownership with strong technical acumen to design user-centered experiences, orchestrate cross-functional teams, and ensure measurable benefits while upholding governance and risk controls.