Digital Biomarker Innovation Technical Lead

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

The Clinical Innovation team at Sanofi is responsible for identifying, accelerating, and scaling innovations that can serve to improve operations and/or outcomes for patients, sites, and sponsors of clinical trials. The Clinical Innovation team includes our digital biomarker (DBM) team which focuses on establishing and executing digital biomarker programs that generate health-related data through digital health technologies (DHTs), provide valuable insights into patients' conditions, and aid in improving the clinical trial experience. The DBM Innovation Lab is the newest capability within the team, established to accelerate adoption of DBMs as trial endpoints, and maximize probability of success for implementation. 

In this role, you will design and lead early data generation and device evaluation programs to foster high-confidence, high-value DBM implementation in Sanofi trials. This position is ideal for someone with strong technical skills, hands-on laboratory or experimental experience, and passion for applying digital technologies to healthcare challenges. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Combine your technical expertise with cross-functional collaboration skills to lead study design, execution, data analysis, and insight generation 

• Manage end-to-end development of proof-of-concept studies that test devices, explore new measures, and generate novel datasets for analysis 

• Work with the broader DBM team and cross-functional experts (e.g., biostatistics, data science) to translate research questions into practical, "minimum viable product" experiments that inform technology selection and implementation 

• Help establish the DBM Innovation Lab (“iLab”) as an efficient, high-performing function that accelerates the adoption of digital technologies in clinical trials 

Key Activities 

• Engage with clinical and trial operations teams to understand unmet needs, workflows and pain points, gathering feedback to improve DBM usability and adoption 

• Develop project plans and tracking systems, coordinating cross-functional working groups to deliver successful technology evaluations 

• Create practical approaches for testing research questions in resource-efficient settings, with key emphasis on technical feasibility and data quality 

• Support protocol development with emphasis on technical specifications, data collection procedures, and quality control measures 

• Partner with data scientists and biostatisticians to design appropriate data management workflows and analysis approaches for digital biomarker evaluation 

• Build direct relationships with technology vendors to source, configure, and troubleshoot devices required for studies 

• Serve as hands-on technical lead for study implementation, monitoring performance metrics and implementing technical improvements 

• Present findings to internal teams with clear explanations of technical concepts, data quality, and operational considerations 

• Contribute to the DBM iLab roadmap by assessing technical feasibility, integration requirements, and implementation challenges