Director - Clinical Design Modeling and Simulation Product Owner - Digital RnD

Job title:  Director - Clinical Design Modeling and Simulation Product Owner - Digital RnD

Location: Cambridge, MA, Morristown, NJ

About the Job

Join the digital engine driving Sanofi’s transformation - where AI, automation, and bold experimentation power faster science and smarter decisions. Here, you’ll help build the first biopharma company powered by AI at scale.

Lead AI product strategy and delivery for Digital Clinical Development as a strategic product leader who bridges business objectives with technical execution. Drive end-to-end biostatistics product ownership from vision to value delivery, leveraging AI, statistical modeling, and data analytics to transform drug development decisions. Provide strategic direction for high-impact, measurable products aimed at reducing clinical development cycle-time, minimizing development risk, and optimizing costs through innovative quantitative approaches and agentic AI solutions.

About Sanofi:
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
 

Main Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and execute product roadmaps aligned with enterprise-level business objectives and quantitative success metrics

• Develop and implement long-term strategic vision for AI and statistical modeling applications in clinical development

Technical Direction

• Provide expert guidance on statistical modeling, machine learning approaches, and agentic AI implementation

• Collaborate with biostatistics teams to evaluate emerging technologies and methodologies for potential application in clinical design

• Ensure proper validation and documentation of modeling approaches

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with executive leadership across Digital Data Science, Translational Medicine, Development teams, and Clinical Operations to drive product adoption

• Present complex quantitative findings and product strategies to senior leadership

• Negotiate resource allocation and strategic priorities with key stakeholders

• Build strategic partnerships with external vendors and academic institutions

About You

Experience

• 10+ years in product management or complex digital solution development with knowledge in product or software-oriented roles building AI/data products with statistical components

• Healthcare/biotech experience with clinical datasets highly preferred

• Experience with regulatory submissions and compliance for AI/ML applications preferred

Skills

• Expert knowledge of statistical modeling, machine learning algorithms, and AI applications in clinical development

• Familiarity with PTRS modeling and simulation techniques for clinical trial optimization

• Advanced understanding of biostatistical methods and their application in drug development

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication: ability to elicit, analyze, and synthesize requirements from senior leadership, translate complex statistical concepts into business language and vice versa, manage conflicting priorities and negotiate strategic trade-offs

• Superior business analysis and quantitative problem solving: ability to develop sophisticated statistical models, perform advanced data analysis, develop comprehensive business cases with complex ROI calculations, and drive data-based decision making at enterprise scale

• Demonstrated ability to think and influence strategically: ability to connect products to organizational goals and quantifiable impact, drive change management and adoption of technical solutions, challenge assumptions with data-driven insights, and build trust with executive stakeholders

Education

• Bachelors required, Master's or PhD degree highly preferred in a relevant field

• Additional business or technical certifications (PMP, Agile, etc.) valued

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team. 

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.