Digital Product Owner, Target Discovery

Job Title: Digital Product Owner, Target Discovery

Location: Cambridge, MA

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.

Digital & Data is at the heart of Sanofi: our ambition is to be the leading digital healthcare platform to develop & deliver medicine faster, enable healthcare professionals to improve treatments and help patients improve their health. Our scale, strong connections within health ecosystems across the world, and ability to leverage Sanofi's capabilities make us the best place to push the boundaries of medicine through technology. 

Why joining Sanofi Digital 

• Executive sponsorship and governance, with newly appointed CDO & leadership team 

• Digital & data culture in place with agile ways of working and a strong ecosystem (Sanofi Ventures, BD Partnerships) 

• Unique diversity of medical & technical challenges, with mobility opportunities 

The Digital In Silico Research team is a key innovation engine within Digital R&D, dedicated to pioneering next-generation digital products that reshape how R&D discovers, designs, and develops new medicines. We harness cutting-edge AI, machine learning, and computational modeling to build transformative in-silico solutions—empowering scientists with predictive insights, streamlining complex workflows, and turning data into decisive action. Our team plays a critical role in accelerating and transforming drug discovery and translational research by building AI-powered, in-silico solutions that empower scientists, enhance decision-making, and connect data to action. 

As Digital Product Owner – Target Discovery you will be responsible for owning and developing AI-powered target discovery and validation products that help Sanofi identify and prioritize novel therapeutic targets. You will own the product vision and backlog for specific target discovery solutions, working closely with development teams to deliver capabilities that combine advanced AI, machine learning, and data integration with experimental techniques. Working at the intersection of computational biology, AI/ML, and drug discovery, you will translate scientific requirements into actionable product features that accelerate the path from disease understanding to therapeutic intervention. 

You will collaborate with computational biologists, data scientists, and wet-lab researchers to ensure that target discovery products meet scientific needs and integrate effectively into research workflows. Your expertise will help build robust AI/ML solutions that enable scientists to leverage multi-omics data, genetic evidence, and biological pathway knowledge to identify and validate promising therapeutic targets. 

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.
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Main Responsibilities: 

Product Ownership & Development: 

• Own the product vision and backlog for specific target discovery AI/ML products 

• Create and maintain detailed product roadmaps aligned with scientific priorities 

• Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria for development teams 

• Manage sprint planning, backlog grooming, and product iterations in an Agile environment 

• Prioritize features and requirements based on scientific impact and technical feasibility