Executive Director, Strategic Enablers, Frontier Partnerships and R&D

Labcorp; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

STD/LTD

401(k)

PTO or Flexible Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Labcorp is seeking an Executive Director, Strategic Enablers, Frontier Partnerships and R&D in Durham, NC. The role leads AI enablement, governance, and scalable AI solutions across the enterprise, reporting to the Chief AI Officer.

This is a hybrid, full-time leadership position requiring deep experience in AI strategy and platform leadership, with significant travel expectations. The role emphasizes building reusable AI platforms, partnerships, and enterprise-grade solutions while guiding R&D

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; 15+ years in software/AI/enterprise tech leadership or related.
• 5+ years leading design, deployment, and scaling of production AI/ML or agentic AI capabilities.
• 5+ years architecting enterprise-grade software platforms and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead strategy for enterprise AI enablers, SDLC, and AI capabilities.
• Partner with engineering and business leaders to accelerate AI adoption via reusable platforms and services.
• Establish AI governance, evaluation, observability, security, and responsible AI practices.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Communication

Program management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

LLMOps

AI governance tools

Vector databases

Knowledge graph platforms

Semantic technologies

Job description

Labcorp is a global leader in laboratory services, providing the insights and answers that help healthcare providers, patients, researchers, pharmaceutical companies and health systems make confident decisions and improve outcomes. Through our unparalleled science, data, technology and laboratory network, we advance diagnostics, accelerate innovation and help address some of the world’s most important health challenges. As we shape the future of healthcare, we are leveraging advanced technologies, intelligent digital solutions and data-driven innovation across our operations to enhance how work gets done and deliver greater value to customers and patients. With our global scale and deep expertise, you’ll have the opportunity to do meaningful work, grow your career and make a real impact on people’s health around the world. Together, we’re improving health and improving lives.

Labcorp is seeking an Executive Director, Strategic Enablers, Frontier Partnerships and R&D to join our team in Durham, NC.

Work Schedule: Durham, NC / Hybrid | Full-time | Reports to: Chief AI Officer | Travel: 40-50%

Job Responsibilities

• Define and lead Labcorp's strategy for enterprise AI enablers, agentic software development lifecycle (SDLC), knowledge management, semantic architecture, and emerging AI capabilities.
• Partner with engineering, data, enterprise architecture, and business leaders to accelerate AI adoption through reusable platforms, standards, and shared services.
• Establish enterprise strategies for AI governance, evaluation, observability, security, reliability, and responsible AI implementation.
• Drive the development and adoption of reusable AI patterns, agent frameworks, developer tooling, enterprise AI services, and knowledge-based AI capabilities.
• Lead evaluation of emerging AI technologies, platforms, strategic partnerships, and build-versus-buy decisions to support enterprise objectives.
• Define and oversee enterprise AI platform capabilities, including model access, resiliency, operational governance, cost management, and lifecycle management.
• Build strategic relationships across the AI ecosystem, including technology providers, research organizations, startups, academic institutions, and industry partners.
• Lead rapid AI experimentation, innovation pilots, and R&D initiatives that translate emerging capabilities into scalable business solutions.
• Partner with Corporate Development and business leaders to evaluate AI-enabled growth opportunities, strategic partnerships, and technology investments.
• Build and lead a high-performing organization focused on AI enablement, innovation, partnerships, and enterprise capability development.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 15 or more years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, AI, data, enterprise technology, or technology leadership roles, including responsibility for enterprise-scale platforms, technology strategy, and organizational leadership.
• 5 or more years of experience leading the design, deployment, and scaling of production AI, machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or AI-assisted development capabilities.
• 5 or more years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-grade software platforms, developer platforms, distributed systems, or AI-enabled technology solutions.
• 5 or more years of experience leading enterprise initiatives involving AI enablement, developer productivity, platform strategy, knowledge management, semantic technologies, or emerging technology adoption

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering or Business Administration
• 5 or more years of experience in healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, pharmaceutical, payer, provider, or other regulated industries supporting solutions involving PII, PHI, compliance, validation, and audit requirements.
• 5 or more years of experience designing and implementing enterprise AI platforms, agentic AI systems, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and AI-enabled developer platforms.
• 5 or more years of experience with enterprise knowledge graph platforms, semantic data models, ontologies, semantic layer architectures, or enterprise knowledge management capabilities.
• 5 or more years of experience with AI orchestration frameworks, agent protocols, vector databases, model gateways, and multi-model AI ecosystems.
• 5 or more years of experience leading AI governance, security, privacy, compliance, or risk management initiatives across enterprise organizations.

Additional Job Standards

• Deep knowledge of modern AI architectures, including foundation models, agentic systems, retrieval, orchestration, evaluation, observability, and production operations.
• Strong understanding of enterprise knowledge management, semantic technologies, knowledge graphs, ontology design, and AI grounding strategies.
• Expertise in LLMOps, AI governance, security, privacy, identity management, regulatory compliance, and trusted AI operations.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and strategic investments, including build-versus-buy-versus-partner decisions.
• Ability to establish and drive adoption of enterprise standards, reusable frameworks, self-service platforms, and governance practices.
• Experience leading innovation programs applied to AI pilots, and enterprise transformation initiatives that successfully scale into production.
• Proven ability to build strategic partnerships across technology providers, AI vendors, startups, research organizations, and industry ecosystems.
• Strong executive leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams and influence technical and business leaders.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• STD/LTD
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours, Casual, Intern, and Temporary employees are only eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan.
• Employees who are regularly scheduled to work a 7 on/7 off schedule are eligible to receive all the foregoing benefits except PTO or FTO.

Labcorp Is Proud To Be An Equal Opportunity Employer

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