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Executive Director, Data Science
Gilead Sciences, Inc.
2024-09-21 04:42:27
San Mateo,
California,
United States
Job type: fulltime
Job industry: Executive Positions
Job description
Executive Director, Data Science
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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead's therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.
Making an impact on a global scale
Inclusion is one of the company's five core values. That's because we know that we are stronger and more innovative at Gilead when we are informed by a diverse set of backgrounds, experiences and points of view. Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The company's mission is to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide.
When you join Gilead, you join our mission to change the world by enabling people to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. Come join a mission-driven bio-pharmaceutical organization that values inclusion and diversity, has a strong portfolio of products, and is constantly
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At Gilead, we're creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we've tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer - working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world's biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.
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Job Description
The Clinical Data Sciences (CDS) organization within Gilead is accountable for the study design, data generation and analysis activities that support Gilead's global clinical portfolio, including Gilead-led post-authorization and observational studies. Through its Development Systems department, CDS also provides an important bridge between the Development and Enterprise-IT organizations, implementing and managing Development's unique technology needs. CDS's vision is to advance therapeutics by providing an analytical, rigorous and data-driven foundation for innovation and excellence in drug development.
Enterprise Data Science Overview
Recently, Gilead launched the Enterprise Data Science Council (EDSC), consisting of data science leadership from each of the major business units across Gilead and chaired by the SVP Clinical Data Science. The purpose of this council is to enable the coordinated and compliant scaling of data science across the enterprise, while preserving the strength and agility of the existing business-embedded data science teams.
To achieve this, the Enterprise Data Science Council will take on four key roles: 1) Support and strengthen the data science community of practice; 2) Establish enterprise data science policies and governance (ex., Enterprise data and AI governance); 3) Coordinate and create transparency into data science use cases and investments across Gilead; and 4) Extend our data science capability to pursue cross-functional innovation and enable functions with limited data science resources.
Position Overview:
Reporting to the SVP of Clinical Data Science, the Executive Director, Data Science is a senior leadership role accountable for both Clinical Development and Enterprise data science capabilities. As a member of the Clinical Data Science Leadership Team, the Executive Director, Data Science is accountable for Development's machine learning and artificial intelligence strategy, overseeing the expansion of the industry-leading Advanced Analytics organization to address the growing opportunity for value generation through the application of AI/ML, including large language models (LLMs), across Development. From an enterprise-perspective this individual will also lead the EDSC's efforts to extend Gilead's enterprise data science capabilities through cross-functional innovation and by providing direct data science support for functions with limited data science resources. Collaborating with senior data science leaders from the EDSC, they will oversee the development and execution of the EDSC's strategy for prioritizing and resourcing diverse AI, ML and data science use cases across the enterprise.
In both their Enterprise and Development capacities the successful candidate will use an enterprise mindset approach, to lead a collaboration with technical, analytical, and clinical peers to deliver on the enterprise-wide best-practices and capabilities necessary to implement data science and AI/ML at scale. Building on this foundation, the organization will cultivate a top tier artificial intelligence & machine learning team focused on addressing complex problems that materially advance the drug discovery, development and delivery process.
The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of enterprise-wide data science leadership and strategic situational judgement in using both innovative and pragmatic approaches to creating measurable business value through the application of data science and AI/ML, as well as demonstrated motivation for and excellence in people leadership and development.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Thinking: Aligns with Development and Enterprise Data Science Council leadership to define and implement an AI/ML strategy that accelerates its use and creates measurable value for internal and external stakeholders; Maintains an understanding of relevant external global trends in the impact of AI/ML on pharmaceutical discovery, development, and delivery; identifying strategic needs and setting the direction for the organization to meet those needs.
- People Development: Develops others by identifying and mentoring high performers and building a culture of inclusion and collaboration throughout the organization; Delegates responsibility and empowers others.
- Decision-making: Maintains a culture of rigorous data-driven decision making that rewards truth-seeking behavior; Encourages employees to exercise good judgement and embrace decision making; Empowers capable individuals to be accountable decision-makers
- Delivery Excellence: Builds and develops an expert team of data scientists, AI/ML modelers and data engineers to support Gilead's data science needs; Leads an assessment of the organization's current AI/ML capabilities and strengths and works closely with Enterprise IT and Development Systems in the development of a roadmap for building vs buying additional capabilities where needed.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Influence and Partnership: Creates external relationships with academic and industry experts to stay abreast of emerging analytics capabilities; Identifies, selects and develops partners, including vendors and collaborators (both academic and industry), ensuring alignment with the Enterprise Data Science Council's overall strategy and identifying cross functional benefits
- Innovation: Keeps up to date on industry-leading applications of AI/ML and associated technologies in healthcare by actively participating in technical conferences and maintaining relationships with external innovators to constantly bring the best solutions to Gilead
- Communication: Champions data sciences and the Enterprise Data Science Council across all areas of the business; Creates excitement and passion for the role of data science, AI & ML in all aspects of drug development across the organization
Capabilities and Requirements:
- Accountabilities and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Collaborate closely with the Development Leadership team to build and maintain a data science and AI/ML strategy that supports and enables the Development organization
- In partnership with Development Systems, Enterprise IT and Clinical Programming, develop and operationalize data ingestion, processing, integration and storage capabilities necessary to serve up highly diverse datasets for machine learning and deep learning algorithm development.
- In partnership with Development Systems, Enterprise IT and data science leaders from the Enterprise Data Science Council, develop and operationalize MLOps best practices, provide input on AI/ML systems and contribute to a build-vs-buy AI platform strategy across Gilead.
- In support of both Development and the EDSC, recruit a top-tier AL/ML team with a long-term focus on addressing complex problems that materially advance the drug discovery, development and delivery. . click apply for full job details