Director and Group Head, Applied AI

Novartis · Basel

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead the applied artificial intelligence strategy and multi-year roadmap across drug discovery research.
  • Align priorities with portfolio needs, scientific opportunities, and measurable business and research impact.
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams to identify, prototype, benchmark, and deploy fit-for-purpose artificial intelligence solutions.
  • Govern an applied artificial intelligence portfolio with clear intake, prioritization, resourcing, delivery oversight, and success metrics.
  • Establish best practices for problem framing, data readiness, benchmarking, evaluation design, and reproducible model development.
  • Drive benchmarking of foundation and task-specific models, enabling transparent trade-offs and informed adoption decisions.
  • Partner with engineering teams to scale solutions and embed them into day-to-day scientific decision making.
  • Define rigorous evaluation metrics linking model performance to downstream decisions and experimental outcomes.
  • Build a culture of scientific rigor, rapid iteration, mentorship, and practical impact across teams.
  • Forge strategic academic and industry collaborations to accelerate innovation, benchmarking, and technology transfer.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience in leading core machine learning capability development initiatives across drug discovery teams and use cases.
  • Proven experience with foundation model benchmarking in drug discovery applications.
  • Hands-on experience applying machine learning to core drug discovery areas such as target identification or computational chemistry.
  • Strong experience in large-scale model training, distributed computation, model adaptation, and deployment within machine learning operations frameworks.
  • Deep curiosity and passion for biomedical sciences and therapeutic discovery, with ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
  • Minimum of 12+ years of experience in innovation, development, deployment, and continuous support of machine learning and modeling solutions.
  • Strong coding proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks, with experience using version control systems such as Git.
  • Ability to manage complexity, balance priorities, and drive outcomes effectively within matrixed environments using a proactive mindset.

Nice to have

  • Publications, patents, or open-source contributions demonstrating machine learning innovation and domain expertise.
  • Strong curiosity for emerging technologies with pragmatic ability to apply them to real-world business challenges.

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