Director, AI Innovation and Partnerships

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Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit, we support patient care, research, teaching, and community service, striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.

 

 

Job Summary

The Director, AI Innovation and Partnerships will play a senior leadership role at the intersection of artificial intelligence, clinical translation, innovation strategy, and commercialization across Mass General Brigham.

This individual will serve as a primary strategic liaison between Mass General Brigham AI and Mass General Brigham Innovation, helping to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and advance high-potential AI-enabled technologies, programs, and partnerships from early concept through validation, deployment, and commercialization.

Working closely with faculty, clinicians, researchers, operational leaders, industry collaborators, and institutional stakeholders, the Director will help build and manage a robust innovation pipeline for AI across the system. The role will support the development of commercialization pathways for internally generated innovations and help align translational activities with institutional priorities in clinical care, operations, research, and growth.

General Overview

Mass General Brigham is committed to advancing clinically meaningful AI and digital innovation through close collaboration across research, care delivery, operations, and industry. The Director, AI Innovation and Partnerships will help accelerate this work by building strong interfaces between MGB Center for AI Research and MGB Innovation, ensuring that promising AI opportunities are assessed rigorously, advanced thoughtfully, and positioned for meaningful institutional and market impact.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the Center’s innovation, translation, and partnership strategy for AI-enabled technologies, programs, and initiatives.
• Serve as a primary strategic and operational liaison between MGB Center for AI and MGB Innovation to strengthen alignment across innovation sourcing, diligence, commercialization planning, and external engagement.
• Identify, evaluate, and advance promising AI opportunities from concept through pilot, validation, deployment, commercialization, and broader institutional adoption.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including investigators, clinicians, operational leaders, hospital leadership, industry collaborators, investors, and strategic partners.
• Partner closely with Mass General Brigham Innovation and other relevant institutional offices to develop and execute commercialization pathways for Center-originated innovations, including licensing, venture creation, sponsored partnerships, co-development structures, and other translational mechanisms.
• Help create and oversee processes for innovation intake, prioritization, feasibility assessment, and decision-making across AI translational initiatives.
• Support market and strategic assessment of emerging AI opportunities, including clinical relevance, operational fit, technical feasibility, business potential, and institutional alignment.
• Facilitate coordination with Mass General Brigham Innovation on invention disclosure, market evaluation, partnering strategy, transaction support, intellectual property positioning, and downstream translation planning.
• Support the development of a strong innovation pipeline by working with faculty, trainees, and staff to identify promising technologies and translational opportunities across the Mass General Brigham ecosystem.
• Represent MGB Center for AI Research in discussions involving innovation strategy, external partnerships, translational growth opportunities, and commercialization planning.
• Collaborate with Center leadership on long-range strategy, program development, external visibility, and the expansion of AI translational capabilities across the enterprise.
• Help structure and manage strategic relationships with external companies, including early-stage ventures, established industry partners, funders, and other innovation ecosystem participants.
• Work with clinical, technical, operational, and administrative stakeholders to align innovation efforts with real-world implementation pathways and enterprise priorities.
• Contribute to the design of internal programs, governance mechanisms, and operating models that improve the efficiency, rigor, and scalability of AI innovation and translation efforts.
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