Senior Manager, Data & AI Product Owner – Clinical Development - Foster City

Gilead Sciences•Foster City, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

As part of our enterprise AI strategy to speed life‑changing therapies to patients, we are seeking a Data/AI Product Owner to drive the AI/data product strategy for Clinical Development Reporting & Analytics. Serving as the primary liaison between Clinical Development stakeholders and technical teams, you will translate ambiguous and evolving Clinical Development needs into a clear, prioritized product roadmap, define success metrics tied to measurable business outcomes and influence both near-term delivery and longer-range data and AI platform evolution. As the IT product owner, you will own the product vision, roadmap and stakeholder engagement for AI-enabled reporting, planning and analytics use cases while understanding the technical architecture required to deliver solutions. Reporting to the Data & AI Leader (Clinical Development), Leader, you will collaborate closely with the Data/AI Delivery Lead and technical teams to prioritize features, define success metrics, and drive user adoption across the Clinical Development organization. As the lifecycle owner of a portfolio of solutions, you will continuously improve Clinical Development decision making at Gilead through AI.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree and Eight Years' Experience OR Masters' Degree and Six Years' Experience
Good understanding of clinical development processes including clinical trial operations, clinical data management, regulatory submissions, patient safety etc.
Demonstrated experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager, with a strong track record of translating business needs into scalable data and AI solutions.
Strong stakeholder management and influence skills, including the ability to operate as a trusted advisor to senior clinical development leaders.
Demonstrated business and financial acumen with the ability to evaluate ROI, cost-to-value trade-offs and long-term platform investments.
Solid understanding of data and AI architecture concepts, with the ability to discuss design options and trade‑offs with engineering and data science teams.
Familiarity modern data platforms such as Databricks and AWS.
Proven experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, using metrics‑driven approaches to guide prioritization and delivery.
Ability to operate with minimal direction, exercising sound judgment, initiative, and accountability consistent with a senior manager individual contributor role.

Responsibilities

Own the end‑to‑end product vision and multi‑year roadmap for a portfolio of AI-enabled capabilities for clinical development reporting, planning forecasting and decision-support, balancing enterprise priorities, platform constraints and value realization.
Partner with clinical development leaders across the clinical development organization to identify pain points, define high‑value AI and advanced analytics opportunities, and develop compelling business cases.
Translate business objectives into clear product requirements and backlog items, incorporating data architecture, platform constraints, and scalability considerations.
Prioritize the product backlog based on business value, risk, technical feasibility, and alignment with enterprise data and AI strategy.
Ensure solutions comply with GxP, privacy, and data governance requirements.
Identify gaps between current‑state capabilities and target‑state solutions, influencing Databricks, AWS, and data platform evolution in partnership with technical leaders.
Define and track success metrics such as cost reduction, productivity gains, user adoption, and satisfaction; use insights to guide continuous improvement.
Drive change management and user adoption, including designing for user experience, stakeholder communications, training strategies, and feedback loops.
Facilitate working sessions and design workshops with clinical development stakeholders, data scientists, engineers, and architects to align on solution design and trade‑offs.
Own the vendor and partner strategy for product support, including external development capacity and AI/LLM capabilities, in coordination with IT and Procurement.
Serve as a trusted advisor to clinical development leadership, applying strong business and financial acumen to evaluate trade‑offs and recommend data‑ and AI‑driven solutions.
Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop and realize their purpose.
Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives, and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.