Director, AI Foundations Engineer

About the Role The Strategy, Platforms & Transformation team at Novartis focuses on enabling data-driven decision-making and AI transformation. As Director, AI Foundations Engineer, you will lead the engineering strategy, delivery, and operations for the agentic AI foundation, spanning architecture, development, and continuous improvement, to enable scalable AI products and workflows and drive business value. What You'll Do

• Lead design, development, and continuous improvement of the organization's AI foundations to enable use cases through disciplined engineering.
• Define and implement agentic AI foundational system, engineering standards, and development practices to promote scalability, reliability, repeatability, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with product, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise needs and strategic priorities.
• Oversee engineering teams in building reusable platform services, tools, and components enabling agentic AI products and workflows.
• Drive modernization and integration to connect existing systems with AI capabilities.
• Monitor agentic operations and user feedback to identify improvements and support continuous optimization.
• Establish operating models, support processes, and governance to ensure consistent delivery of AI capabilities.
• Communicate platform priorities, delivery progress, risks, and investment needs to senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders. What We're Looking For
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of AI engineering experience with a strong track record of leading product strategy, roadmap development, and delivery for complex digital, data, or AI-enabled products.
• Demonstrated experience in AI and data-driven product environments, translating business needs into scalable product solutions and partnering closely with technical teams to bring innovative products to market.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate across Engineering, Innovation, Design, Data Science, Commercial, and other business teams.
• Experience managing and developing product managers or junior product leaders, including coaching, prioritization support, and fostering strong product management practices.
• Excellent strategic, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to evaluate opportunities, make informed tradeoffs, and clearly communicate product vision, priorities, and outcomes to stakeholders. Compensation & Benefits
• Salary range: USD 194,600 - 361,400 per year.
• Includes performance-based cash incentive and, depending on level, eligibility for annual equity awards.
• Comprehensive benefits package for US-based employees (health, life and disability benefits, 401(k) with company contribution and match).
• Generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves.
• Note: Role is remote; relocation is not provided.