Director, Strategy & Operations - Life Sciences AI Products

Tempus AI, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Tempus AI, Inc. seeks a Director of Strategy & Operations to shape product vision for novel AI therapeutics across modalities.

You will lead lifecycle from inception through launch, collaborating with Life Sciences partners and cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with partner strategies and regulatory standards. The role requires deep drug development knowledge, stakeholder management, and a track record delivering AI-enabled products in regulated settings.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management or strategy for healthcare/tech in regulated environments.
• 2+ years managing AI products across the lifecycle from ideation to launch.
• Experience with customer or partner management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent communication across diverse stakeholders and teams.
• Deep understanding of the drug development lifecycle and translational medicine.
• Ability to distill feedback into clear product requirements and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Understand Life Sciences partners' business needs and translate into product vision.
• Translate ideas and proofs-of-concept into defined roadmaps with partner input.
• Drive alignment with partners and internal teams across streams.
• Manage lifecycle from inception to post-market evaluation for custom products.
• Collaborate with medical, AI, and translational experts to define business drivers.
• Optimize internal processes to improve time-to-market.
• Ensure compliance with quality and regulatory obligations; represent at events.

Skills

Product management

Strategy

AI products

Customer management

Cross-functional

Communication

Drug development lifecycle

Job description

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry? Recent advancements in underlying technology have finally made it possible for AI to impact clinical care in a meaningful way. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time. Tempus is seeking a Director, Strategy & Operations to drive product vision, strategy, and execution for novel AI products across modalities that are custom developed with Life Sciences partners. This role will be responsible for overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from product inception through development, launch, commercialization, and post-market surveillance, translating and ensuring alignment with partners' business strategies and objectives. The Director, Strategy & Operations will take a highly collaborative approach with key stakeholders from Life Sciences companies to define new products and associated roadmaps. This role will work cross-functionally both internally and externally, across diverse science, engineering, medical, quality, regulatory, and commercial teams. In addition to AI product acumen, this role requires a strong understanding of the drug development lifecycle and the application of translational medicine throughout the stages of development and commercialization of therapeutics.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand Life Sciences partners' business needs and objectives, and translate these aims into clear product vision and strategy.
• Translate early stage product ideas and proof-of-concept results into well-defined product profiles and clear roadmaps, considering partner needs.
• Drive clear communication and alignment with partners and internal business and commercial teams for all product-related workstreams.
• Manage the product lifecycle for Life Sciences custom products from inception and proof-of-concept through product development, launch, go-to-market, and post-market evaluation.
• Collaborate with internal and external medical, AI, and translational research subject matter experts to determine business drivers, understand customer needs, and drive execution.
• Optimize internal processes to improve product lifecycle delivery and time-to-market.
• Collaborate with quality and regulatory subject matter experts to ensure ongoing compliance with Paige and Tempus's regulatory obligations and quality standards.
• Represent Tempus and advocate for the value and benefits of products custom developed with Life Sciences partners at internal and external events and conferences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management or strategy at the intersection of healthcare and technology, including responsibility for the vision, strategy, and roadmap of complex products in regulated environments.
• Proven track record (2+ years) of managing AI products through the entire lifecycle, from ideation to launch (0 to 1).
• Extensive experience in customer and/or partner management
• Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally and engage diverse stakeholders across all organizational levels.
• Deep familiarity and demonstrated understanding of the drug development lifecycle.
• Skilled at engaging users, customers, and partners to distill feedback into clear, agile product requirements and roadmaps.

NYC/SF: $165-000-$235,000 US: $150,000-$220,000 The expected salary range above is applicable if the role is performed from California and may vary for other locations (Colorado, Illinois, New York). Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience.

Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.

Additionally, for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles - including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Tempus was founded in August of 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky, after his wife was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. Shortly after he founded the company in an effort to bring the power of technology and artificial intelligence to cancer care, he convinced Ryan Fukushima to join as the company's first employee. Ryan and Eric began assembling a world class team, focused on building the first version of a platform capable of ingesting real time healthcare data in an effort to personalize diagnostics. We built the platform for oncology and have expanded it to neuropsychiatry, cardiology, infectious disease (through COVID), and radiology. Despite our rapid growth, our mission remains the same—to help make sure patients are on the right drug at the right time, so they can live longer and healthier lives. We're looking for people who can change the world. Who question the status quo and don't shy away from tough problems. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We're looking for passionate people with undying curiosity. Those who want to attack one of the most challenging problems mankind has ever faced. Head on.