Technical Product Manager, Chemistry IT Systems

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 innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions to deliver breakthroughs that profoundly impact health for humanity.

This role is available in Spring House, Pennsylvania or San Diego, California.

About the role

We are seeking an exceptional Technical Product Manager for Chemistry IT Systems to join our Business Technology team. This team delivers leading-edge technology solutions that advance J&J Innovative Medicine’s molecule discovery organization, supporting key scientific functions across medicinal chemistry, computational chemistry, analytical chemistry, DMPK, discovery data sciences, computational sciences, screening, and compound logistics.

In this role, you will shape and deliver enterprise-wide discovery informatics platforms that modernize and support lead discovery and optimization across multi-modality research. You will enable data-driven, AI-augmented discovery workflows by translating scientific needs into scalable technology capabilities, integrated data flows, and product roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the global delivery of cheminformatics and broader discovery informatics platforms for the Innovative Medicine research organization.
• Define, evaluate, implement, and champion new data-driven and scientific IT approaches across discovery sciences globally.
• Identify and drive opportunities to modernize chemistry-centric decision-making through advanced digital capabilities.
• Lead and support portfolio strategy for assigned product areas by identifying gaps, overlaps, retirement opportunities, and performance improvement recommendations.
• Define project goals, manage risks and budgets, and ensure measurable impact through effective execution and post-project evaluations.
• Evaluate and communicate the strengths and weaknesses of business processes, identify new business requirements, and develop change strategies that improve information systems, procedures, and stakeholder outcomes.
• Understand the global deployment of AI and machine learning capabilities for molecular invention, including AI-enabled search experiences and emerging AI agent capabilities that proactively surface relevant information, support workflow automation, and enable alert-based notifications.
• Apply a strong understanding of data management principles, including data governance, data quality, data integration, and lifecycle management.
• Support technology adoption and change management across diverse teams and organizational levels.
• Lead cross-site, multidisciplinary projects with internal and external partners.
• Promote team member engagement and commitment while ensuring clear, effective communication between researchers, developers, and engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in Chemistry or a relevant life science or data science field of study. Graduate degree preferred.
• 5+ years in pharmaceutical R&D molecular discovery with strong exposure to small molecule, peptide, and large molecule chemistry research.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with scientific stakeholders, technology teams, and cross-functional partners to define requirements and deliver informatics or scientific IT solutions.
• Experience with database management to effectively engage with Cheminformatics teams, architects, and external vendors supporting solutions across multiple applications. Strong technical expertise is a significant advantage.
• Experience with pipelining applications such as KNIME or Pipeline Pilot.
• Experience with commercial chemistry software providers such as Schrödinger, BIOVIA, Revvity, OpenEye, ChemAxon, or similar platforms.
• Experience with open-source chemistry or cheminformatics applications such as RDKit or Oligokit.
• Experience with data visualization and analytics tools such as Spotfire.
• Knowledge of data warehouses and ETL to clarify how data is managed and consumed by multiple users across cross-functional teams.

Pay

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $102,000 - $177,100.

Benefits

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company-sponsored employee benefit programs:

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance
• Consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k))

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

• Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time – 40 hours per calendar year (56 hours for employees who reside in Washington state)
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – 13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time – up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member; 5 days for an extended family member
• Caregiver Leave – 10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 4 days
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours