Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation is dedicated to improving patient outcomes through innovative solutions. They are seeking an Executive Director, AI Platform Engineering Lead to drive AI transformation by leading the engineering strategy and operational excellence of their agentic AI platform, ensuring it delivers measurable business value through reliable and scalable execution.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model for the organization’s agentic AI platform
- Oversee the design, development, integration, deployment, and ongoing operation of platform capabilities that support agentic AI products and workflows
- Establish platform engineering standards, architectural principles, and development practices to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
- Lead cross functional engineering teams in building reusable platform services, tools, and components that accelerate product delivery and adoption
- Partner with product, data, infrastructure, security, and business teams to align platform capabilities with enterprise priorities and evolving user needs
- Drive platform performance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement through monitoring, feedback loops, incident review, and service optimization
- Guide the modernization of existing systems and processes to enable integration with agentic AI products, workflows, and platform services
- Communicate platform strategy, technical direction, delivery progress, risks, and investment needs to senior executives and key stakeholders
Skills
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in related field is required; Master of Science and/or MBA strongly preferred
- 15 plus years of progressive product management experience, including significant leadership over senior product leaders, with a strong track record of defining and scaling enterprise level product strategy and execution
- Deep expertise in AI driven product management, including experience bringing innovative data, machine learning, and generative AI products from concept to commercialization in complex enterprise environments
- Proven people leadership and organizational development capability, with experience leading directors and senior product teams, building high performing organizations, and establishing effective product operating models and governance
- Strong cross functional and executive influence skills, with demonstrated success partnering across Engineering, Innovation, Commercial, Data Science, and business leadership to align strategy, prioritize investments, and drive outcomes
- Bachelor degree required and advanced degree preferred, ideally in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or a related field
Benefits
- A performance-based cash incentive
- Eligibility to be considered for annual equity awards
- A comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life and disability benefits
- A 401(k) with company contribution and match
- A variety of other benefits
- A generous time off package including vacation, personal days, holidays and other leaves
Company Overview
Novartis is a pharmaceutical company that researches and develops medicines for serious diseases to improve and extend people's lives. It is a sub-organization of Meye Asset Management. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Basel, Basel-Stadt, CHE, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.novartis.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Novartis has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 14 in 2025, 27 in 2024, 23 in 2023, 27 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 25 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.