Remote AI Foundations Engineering Leader

Visa Hunt; United States; Remote; USD 225,000 - 419,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis is seeking an Executive Director, AI Foundations Engineering Lead for a remote role based in the United States. You will shape the engineering strategy and drive the transformation of processes into agentic AI products and intelligent workflows, leading cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, secure AI services.

The role requires deep AI-driven product management experience, executive leadership, and a track record of delivering enterprise-grade platforms.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in AI-driven product management for enterprise environments.
• Proven capability leading directors and senior product teams.
• Strong cross-functional and executive influence with engineering, data science, and business leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model for the agentic AI platform.
• Oversee design, development, integration, deployment, and operation of foundational capabilities for AI products.
• Establish platform engineering standards, architecture, and development practices for scalability and security.
• Lead cross-functional teams to build reusable platform services and components.
• Partner with product, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to align platform with priorities.
• Drive platform performance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Guide modernization of systems to enable integration with AI products and workflows.
• Communicate AI strategy, direction, progress, risks, and investment needs to executives.

Skills

AI product management

Executive leadership

Cross-functional influence

Platform engineering

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Novartis is seeking an Executive Director, AI Foundations Engineering Lead for a remote role based in the United States. You will shape the engineering strategy and drive the transformation of processes into agentic AI products and intelligent workflows, leading cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, secure AI services.

The role requires deep AI-driven product management experience, executive leadership, and a track record of delivering enterprise-grade platforms.