Associate Director, AI Strategy & Operations

Associate Director Of Ai Strategy And Operations

The associate director of AI strategy and operations will be a critical leader that helps develop, champion and execute on AbbVie's enterprise AI strategy, governance, and priority AI use cases across functions, including drug discovery, clinical development, operations, and commercial. This role serves as a strategic thought partner that develops the enterprise AI strategy, supports prioritized AI initiatives, plays a key role in coordinating external advisory board, and driving operational excellence in line with business objectives and patient impact.

Key responsibilities:

• Enterprise AI Strategy: Support development and execution of enterprise AI strategy, partnering with the director to ensure alignment with AbbVie's business objectives.
• Functional and Business Unit AI Strategies: Support functional and business unit leaders in developing and continually refreshing their AI strategies, incorporating the latest innovations in AI and identifying opportunities where AI can help accelerate strategic business priorities.
• External AI Advisory Board: Oversee AbbVie's external AI advisory board, coordinating across functions and BUs to collate key topics and questions for advisory board meetings, gathering key insights to be applied throughout enterprise and functional/BU AI strategies.
• Deep AI Expertise: Apply expertise in machine learning, generative AI, agentic AI, and physical AI to contribute to innovative solutions for biopharma applications.
• Operational Excellence: Assist in establishment and execution of operational frameworks and governance, ensuring cross-functional communication and integration across business units.
• Measurement and reporting: Monitor, analyze, and report on the progress and impact of AI initiatives.
• Support cross-cutting enablers: Provide thought leadership and support in crosscutting capabilities including but not limited to technology enablement, responsible AI, and data readiness.

This role requires at minimum three (3) days onsite in the respective AbbVie office.

Qualifications:

Education & Strategy Experience:

• Degree fields: computer science, statistics, AI/ML, physics, math, chemistry, bioinformatics, computational biology, or similar
• Bachelor's: 9+ years in strategy OR
• Master's: 8+ years in strategy OR
• PhD: 4+ years in strategy
• Must include work with life sciences or tech companies on AI
• 2-3 years at a top consulting firm

Technical Knowledge:

• Broad understanding of current AI and ML technologies
• Effective project management and teamwork skills, with the ability to communicate across multiple management levels and thrive in cross-functional settings.
• Key competencies: experience in AI/ML, enterprise thinking with ability to build credibility within the organization; time management, project management mastery, strong interpersonal skills (e.g., communication adaptability, meeting facilitation, negotiation, mediation, conflict management), and ability to successfully adapt to changing requirements.

Preferred:

• Advanced degree in a computational field
• Professional experience at a product-focused technology company (e.g., big tech, start-ups)

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal opportunity employer/veterans/disabled.