Lead, Technology Product Management – AI, Data & Insights

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow.

About the role

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Lead, Technology Product Management – AI, Data & Insights to join our Data & Insights Product Group located in Titusville, NJ. This role blends technical product ownership with hands-on engineering, focusing on the delivery of scalable commercial solutions including AI that transform pharma operations.

The Lead will collaborate with IT peers, external vendors, data aggregator partners, business product owners, technology services, and finance teams to deliver high-impact analytics products and solutions. The role demands fluency in data science, data engineering, and cloud technologies, with the ability to translate business needs into production-grade solutions. The ideal candidate will be a technically proficient product leader with direct experience architecting and building AI/GenAI capabilities, including LLMs, AI agents, and cloud-native data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Product Management
  • Define and communicate product vision for AI/GenAI-enabled analytics platforms.
  • Prioritize features that leverage GenAI to enhance commercial decision-making.
  • Define and communicate product vision and strategy, including new features and improvements for the Data & Insights portfolio.
  • Identify and prioritize product features backlog in alignment with business strategy.
  • Define business value, measure return on investment, and realize business outcomes.
  • Own and manage total cost of ownership, including spend on vendors and services throughout the product lifecycle.
  • Drive and measure adoption, retention, and customer satisfaction of Data Analytics products.
  • Coach business and technical product owners on product management standard methodologies.
• Solutioning & Delivery
  • Serve as Technical Product Owner with hands-on involvement in building AI/GenAI solutions.
  • Architect and implement GenAI capabilities using AWS/Azure stack (e.g., Bedrock, SageMaker, OpenAI, Azure ML).
  • Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to build and deploy LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agentic workflows.
  • Lead development of reusable AI components and pipelines for commercial analytics use cases.
  • Define standards for product design, development, release management, testing/validation, and compliance.
  • Lead analytics capabilities roadmap in line with business and BTL prioritization.
  • Develop and lead project plans, including all areas related to project management.
  • Accountable for application support of analytics platforms via Service Level Management.
  • Utilize Agile methodology to translate business needs into user stories, prioritize product backlog, and define sprint plans.
  • Partner with Technology Services teams on demand planning, effort, timing, delivery, and support.
  • Perform source data analysis, data discovery, and collaborate to synthesize business rules for data acquisition.
  • Ensure successful business product owner engagement and completion of user acceptance testing.
  • Provide technology leadership and deliver Commercial Data & Insights solutions for Sales, Marketing, Market Access, and Medical functions.
  • Drive continual measurement of capabilities against demand volume, complexity, and business challenges.
  • Focus on business agility, agile product delivery with a fail-fast approach, and measurable outcomes.
  • Drive product health, technical quality, development, and support services through consistent metrics reporting.
  • Manage lifecycle of products and complete upgrade/decommission strategy as appropriate.
• People & Organizational Leadership
  • Cultivate a collaborative, healthy, inclusive, and Credo-based culture.
  • Maintain a track record of networking and orchestrating across technology and business organizations.
  • Demonstrate success in leading multiple cross-functional, self-organized teams.
  • Introduce bold ideas that challenge thinking and ways of working.
  • Apply strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze situations and reach productive decisions.

Requirements

• Education & Experience
  • A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Statistics, Data Science, or equivalent field of study. Master’s degree preferred.
  • A minimum of 3 years of diverse experience in data and insights technology product development.
  • Proven track record of deploying LLMs, AI agents, and GenAI-powered applications in production.
  • Deep expertise in Python, ML frameworks (e.g., LangChain), and cloud-native AI services.
  • Strong understanding of prompt engineering, model fine-tuning, and evaluation metrics.
  • Experience integrating GenAI into business workflows for measurable impact.
  • A minimum of 2 years of experience leading mid-large data & insights product teams.
  • A minimum of 2+ years of experience designing and implementing data engineering and data science solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• Skills
  • Effective communication, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving.
  • Ability to exercise good judgment in high-pressure situations with attention to detail.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate strategically and authoritatively.
  • Consistent record of delivering projects efficiently with ambitious timelines.
  • Demonstrable experience crafting technical solutions for business problems.
  • Expertise in data management, data modeling, large data lake platforms, and BI visualization technologies (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).

Preferred Qualifications

• Pharmaceutical or life sciences/healthcare industry experience.
• Extensive knowledge of commercial pharma business processes (e.g., field alignment, call planning, sales reporting, Medical Affairs, patient data).
• Experience with pharmaceutical data, including Patient Access Services, sales and marketing syndicated data, CRM, digital, lab, hub, claims, and specialty pharmacy data.
• Agile development experience, SDLC methodology, risk management (including information security), and solid understanding of JIRA.
• Hands-on experience in cloud technologies and expertise in AWS or Azure tech stack.
• Experience working in CI/CD framework and DevOps mode for data science and data engineering solutions.

Schedule

This position is based in Titusville, New Jersey, with up to 10% travel to Raritan, NJ; New Brunswick, NJ; and Horsham, PA offices.

Pay

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $109,000 to $174,800 USD.

Benefits

For eligible employees and their dependents, Johnson & Johnson offers participation in the following plans:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits (subject to plan terms).