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Director, Clinical Development AI Partnerships

BioSpace · San Francisco, CA · 3 wk ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes Company Description, Job Description, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Additional Information (benefits). We need to use

for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should only include sections that have real specific content. We have content for Responsibilities (list), Qualifications (list), Benefits (some description). No explicit Pay or Schedule. So we should not include Pay or Schedule sections. Also we might include "About the role" maybe from Job Description? The posting includes "Job Description" with description of role. Could map that to "About the role". Also "Company Description" maybe not needed as heading? Could be omitted or could be part of About the role? The instruction: do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

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      • list (paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), long-term incentive programs). Also mention eligibility. Also note that compensation range is described but we should not create Pay section unless posting actually states them. The posting includes compensation range description in Additional Information: "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..." It does not actually give numbers. It says range described below but not provided. So it's placeholder. So we should not create Pay section. Also no schedule. We must remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The Additional Information includes EEO statement at end: "AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer..." That's boilerplate; we should remove. Also the "Note: No amount of pay..." is also boilerplate; we can drop. Also the "Additional Information Applicable only to applicants applying to a position..." is somewhat about pay disclosure; but we might keep the benefits part. However the instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The EEO statement is boilerplate; remove. The note about pay is also boilerplate; remove. The "Additional Information" paragraph about benefits is substantive; we can keep that as Benefits section. Thus final HTML: maybe start with a

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      • . Ensure we keep the text. Responsibilities list from posting: - Deal sourcing: Closely monitor the evolving landscape of AI and pharmaceutical innovation as it relates to clinical development. Proactively identify and evaluate potential partnering opportunities from AI startups, technology companies, frontier model labs, clinical technology platforms, digital health companies, academic groups, and life sciences investors. - Opportunity evaluation and diligence: Lead or co-lead the structured assessment of external opportunities with Clinical Development, R&D, BTS, S&E, BD&A, legal, privacy, compliance, and functional subject matter experts. This includes managing partner interactions, organizing diligence workstreams, synthesizing scientific and technical input, and preparing clear recommendations for senior leaders and governance forums. - Pilots, benchmarks, and technical evaluations: Design and coordinate pilots, benchmarks, proof-of-concept studies, and technical evaluations of AI models and platforms applied to clinical development. Ensure evaluations are scoped to answer decision-relevant questions, with clear success criteria, data needs, operational assumptions, risks, and next-step recommendations. - Deal flow management: Track active assessments, partner interactions, diligence materials, pilot status, decision points, and open issues. Communicate progress and risks to key stakeholders in a timely and concise way, including through written updates, management presentations, governance materials, and working team discussions. - Partnership and deal execution support: Contribute to the development of appropriate partnership structures, non-binding term sheets, statements of work, technical and operational inputs, risk mitigation strategies, and negotiation considerations in collaboration with BD&A, Transactions Legal, Procurement, BTS, and functional teams. - Ecosystem development: Build and maintain relationships with external partners and ecosystem participants to improve awareness of AbbVies Clinical Development AI priorities and to source high-quality opportunities aligned with business needs. - Internal alignment and stakeholder management: Help align Clinical Development leaders, functional SMEs, BTS, AI Strategy, and enterprise stakeholders on opportunity fit, value potential, implementation needs, and decision criteria. Facilitate meetings and working sessions that move the organization toward informed decisions. - Operating model and playbook contribution: Develop reusable approaches for Clinical Development AI external innovation, including diligence templates, pilot design principles, stakeholder maps, decision criteria, ROI and success metric frameworks, and practical guidance on buy-build-partner tradeoffs. Qualifications Required list: - 10+ years of relevant experience in clinical development, clinical innovation, clinical operations, clinical data science, AI strategy, business development, search and evaluation, management consulting, venture, corporate strategy, or related life sciences technology roles. Candidates with more traditional strategy, S&E, BD&A, or consulting backgrounds should have clear exposure to clinical development or AI-enabled life sciences work. - Bachelors degree in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, engineering, computer science, data science, business, or a related discipline is required. Advanced degree such as MD, PharmD, PhD, MBA, masters degree in a quantitative discipline, or equivalent experience is preferred. - Demonstrated ability to understand clinical development workflows and pain points, including trial design, study start-up, enrollment, clinical operations, evidence needs, or adjacent drug development processes. - Working knowledge of AI/ML, generative AI, agentic AI, analytics, clinical technology, digital health, or data-enabled platforms, with the judgment to evaluate credibility, feasibility, implementation requirements, and potential business impact. - Experience contributing to external opportunity assessments, technical or business diligence, pilots, collaborations, partnerships, licensing discussions, or other strategic initiatives involving cross-functional decision-making. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to synthesize complex clinical, technical, operational, and business information into concise recommendations for senior stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to thrive in a 0-to-1 environment. Capable of quickly building an internal network, developing trust with cross-functional partners, and collaborating effectively with external organizations. - Highly organized and execution-oriented, with strong project management, meeting facilitation, stakeholder management, and follow-through. Able to work independently while staying tightly connected to broader team priorities. - Strong interpersonal skills and judgment, including communication adaptability, negotiation support, issue spotting, conflict management, and the ability to operate with discretion when handling confidential partner and strategy information. Preferred Experience list (we could include under Qualifications as separate bullets or separate section? The instruction says use headings like Qualifications, Skills, etc. We could combine required and preferred under Qualifications. Or we could have a Skills section for preferred? But better to keep Qualifications heading and include both required and preferred as bullets. That preserves all info. Benefits: from Additional Information: "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 long-term incentive programs." Also maybe mention that compensation range described but we drop. Thus Benefits ul: - Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick) - Medical/dental/vision insurance - 401(k) for eligible employees - Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs We should not include the note about compensation range. Now About the role: The Job Description paragraph(s) after "Job Description". Let's extract: "Reporting to the Head of Clinical Development AI Partnerships, the Director, Clinical Development AI Partnerships will play a key role in advancing AbbVies external innovation agenda for artificial intelligence applied to clinical development. This role will help identify, assess, and progress partnership opportunities from the global AI and life sciences innovation ecosystem, with focus on AI-enabled capabilities that can improve clinical trial design, efficiency, quality, execution, evidence generation, and participant engagement. This leader will be responsible for independently leading substantive workstreams across sourcing, evaluation, diligence, pilot design, benchmark planning, partner engagement, and internal governance recommendations. This person works in close collaboration with Clinical Development leaders, AI Strategy & Partnerships, Search & Evaluation, Business Development & Acquisitions, Business Technology Solutions, Transactions, Legal, Procurement, Privacy, Compliance, and R&D stakeholders. The primary scope is Clinical Development, with opportunities spanning therapeutic areas and transaction types such as pilots, research collaborations, licenses, option structures, and other partnership models. The successful candidate will bring enough clinical development context to understand the problems AbbVie is trying to solve, enough AI and technology fluency to assess external capabilities credibly, and enough strategy and deal-process discipline to help the organization make practical, evidence-based decisions. This is a builder role in a new and high-priority area: the person should be comfortable operating with ambiguity, developing trusted internal and external relationships, and converting emerging opportunities into rigorous, well-governed partnership paths." Then there is a separate paragraph "The Role This Director role will be a hands-on partner to the Development AI cross-functional team as well as to the broader AbbVie AI Partnerships team. This person will be leading AI Strategy and Operations for the ClinDev organization and serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership in strategy, functions, and business technology. This role is pivotal in driving our organization towards becoming a leader in the application of AI in pharma, ensuring that AI initiatives align with our overarching business objectives, delivering tangible business value and accelerating our promise to patients. He or she will help translate AbbVies Clinical Development AI priorities into a focused external innovation pipeline. The core areas of emphasis include clinical trial acceleration, clinical trial innovation, and related AI-enabled capabilities that can improve the speed, quality, and execution of drug development." We can combine into About the role section as prose (maybe two paragraphs). Use

        tags. Company Description: "About AbbVie AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube." We need to fix spacing: there's missing spaces after URLs etc. But we should preserve as is? Probably we should keep the text exactly but we can add spaces for readability? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Changing formatting (adding spaces) might be considered altering but not adding/inventing content. It's okay to fix obvious typos? Might be safer to keep as is. However the text has missing spaces: "atwww.abbvie.com." and "Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube." We could keep it as is; it's still substantive. We'll output exactly. Now produce HTML fragment:

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