Director of Scaled Data Science for Drug Asset Diligence

Formation Bio; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 307,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Generous perks

Job summary

Formation Bio in New York City/Boston area seeks a senior data science and product leader for the Asset Acquisition & Diligence (AAD) team. You will scale one-off analyses into durable diligence capabilities, and serve as the connective tissue between scientific work and scalable tools.

You will guide method choice, assess statistical validity at scale, and translate findings into a roadmap that informs asset sourcing and deal decisions. This is a hybrid role with in-office days in key hubs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data science, applied science, or a technical product role with progressively broader scope, including at least one role where you were accountable for turning analytical work into a deployed capability.
• Life sciences experience: you've worked in biotech, pharma, or a related industry, and understand the drug development lifecycle well enough to have informed opinions about where a computational method holds up and where it doesn't.
• Strategic thinker: you decide what's worth scaling based on business and scientific impact, not novelty or ease of building.
• AI/ML fluency: you can evaluate whether a method remains valid at exhaustive scale, make build-vs-buy calls on tooling, and push for AI/ML approaches where they create real leverage.
• Technical fluency: you can engage deeply with data scientists and engineers on method, architecture, and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy for scaling Formation's data science work for asset acquisition and diligence. Decide which one-off analyses have generalization potential, in what form (landscape analysis vs. scaled tool), and how to measure success.
• Direct a working team spanning Data Science and Engineering day to day. Set the roadmap and sequence work based on business impact, coordinating with functional leads on resourcing. Execute against that roadmap with clear lines to business impact.
• Work directly with Data Science and Business Development as strategic partners. Translate scientific findings into a scaled roadmap, not by taking feature requests, but by understanding the science well enough to see generalization and alpha opportunities.
• Guide the technical approach on methods being scaled, including statistical validity at exhaustive scale, pipeline design, and dataset evaluation.
• Work with scientific and technical teams to identify any new opportunities for AI to impact Formation’s asset acquisition and diligence process and be able to pitch those to stakeholders with a clear explanation of resourcing and business impact.

Skills

Strategic thinker

AI/ML fluency

Technical fluency

Cross-functional influence

Business fluency

Mission-driven

Job description

Formation Bio in New York City/Boston area seeks a senior data science and product leader for the Asset Acquisition & Diligence (AAD) team. You will scale one-off analyses into durable diligence capabilities, and serve as the connective tissue between scientific work and scalable tools.

You will guide method choice, assess statistical validity at scale, and translate findings into a roadmap that informs asset sourcing and deal decisions. This is a hybrid role with in-office days in key hubs.