Senior Director, GCA AI & Technology

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine•New Brunswick, NJ

About The Position

The Senior Director, GCA AI & Technology serves as an Enterprise leader accountable for the strategy, governance, and execution of GCA’s AI and technology ecosystem. This role ensures that GCA employees are enabled by modern capabilities, shared workflows, and strong data foundations—driving smarter, faster, more consistent work across the organization. The Senior Director sets the vision, oversees platform and capability development, leads change and adoption, and stewards GCA’s AI and technology portfolio in partnership with Johnson & Johnson Technology.

Requirements

Demonstrated leadership in tech and AI transformation within complex, matrixed environments.
Experience owning tech/AI platforms
Experience building and leading team; coaching and developing talent
Experience in product management, agile delivery, and platform lifecycle management.
Strong understanding of data storage and governance principles.
Proven success driving behavior change and adoption of new technologies.
Strong influencing skills, executive presence, and ability to communicate complex concepts simply.
Demonstration of high adaptability, learning agility, strategic thinking, and strong business acumen.
Demonstrated track record of driving change management
Bachelor’s degree required (Business, Communications, Information Technology, or related field).

Nice To Haves

Experience working with Communications and/or Corporate Reputation functions
Master’s degree or MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

Set and govern the strategic direction for GCA’s AI and technology ecosystem inclusive of lead development of the digital and AI transformation roadmap aligned to GCA priorities.
Own the enterprise portfolio of GCA AI and technology capabilities, tools, platforms, and standards.
Ensure alignment with Johnson & Johnson policies, enterprise architecture, and compliance requirements.
Serve as GCA’s representative on Johnson & Johnson’s Artificial Intelligence Council.
Establish governance, guardrails, decision-making frameworks, and responsible AI use across Communications, WW GA&P and GHE.
Manages team of three capability/platform owners responsible for building, evolving, and governing the technology platforms supporting GCA’s core capabilities.
Build team, establish Owner roles and establish processes that ensure that Owners are assessing capability needs, defining technology requirements, partnering with J&J Technology to design and implement platforms, driving change management, training, and role-based enablement, and continuously enhancing platforms to meet evolving organizational needs.
Drive overall workforce adoption and effective utilization of AI and technology capabilities.
Supervise Workforce Enablement Lead talent accountable for leading analytics-driven approaches to understand usage, barriers, and behavioral trends.
Oversee change management, training, communications, and role-based enablement.
Build team, establish Owner roles and establish processes that ensure that Owners are assessing capability needs, defining technology requirements, partnering with J&J Technology to design and implement platforms, driving change management, training, and role-based enablement, and continuously enhancing platforms to meet evolving organizational needs.
Partner with GCA leaders and J&J Technology to embed AI and technology into daily work.
Lead matrixed teams to execute platform delivery, integrations, and capability launches.
Oversee execution of the tech and AI roadmap, anticipating risks and enabling delivery momentum.
Oversee GCA’s data and content foundations, including the enterprise content library and unified data platform and evolution of current data hub.
Ensure strong metadata, taxonomy, governance, and library science discipline.

Benefits

employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year