Sr. Director, Citizen Development & AI Products

Pfizer • New York, NY

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

Background: Citizen Development is an exciting emerging area at Pfizer leveraging new AI tools to empower colleagues to create agents and apps quickly and easily. Focusing on no and low-code solutions, Citizen Development will empower non-coders to create novel solutions, helpful agents and powerful apps with minimal technical background or experience. Job Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Sr. Director Citizen Development & AI Products that will lead our efforts to create robust no and low-code tooling for non-coder colleagues to utilize. This role is responsible for the technical toolset, strategy and enablement of these innovative tools. They will also lead and communicate the vision and roadmap for Citizen Development at Pfizer.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Technology or a related field w/ at least 12 years of applicable experience
• Proven experience in software development, large-scale applications, Generative AI, or a related field.
• Experience in consumer digital products and associated technical project management roles is highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to interpret complex data and translate it into actionable insights.
• Strong communication and presentation skills. Ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders effectively.
• Strong proficiency in software development.
• Deep Generative AI skill and experience using Generative AI within software applications.
• Strong understanding of non-developers, their use cases and how to apply no and low-code tools to them.
• Have a platform-as-product mindset, running citizen development tools as products.
• Proficiency in AI agentic tools such as Copilot and Copilot Studio
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in managing and prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices in Generative AI.
• Understand app development, user experience and Generative AI development tools.
• This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• A Master's degree is preferred
• Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

Responsibilities

• Anticipate upcoming citizen development needs
• Bring appropriate technical approaches
• Communicate the technical strategy effectively to stakeholders and delivery teams
• Communicate the vision to non-technical colleagues
• Articulate the boundaries of citizen development versus pro-code tools and traditional software development practices
• Put together high-level technical architectures that both describe current and future state of the Citizen Development ecosystem
• Understand and implement effective connection patterns, including MCP and other emerging solutions
• Drive decisions related to technical platforms and tools
• Explaining technical decisions in ways that non-technical folks can understand
• Being highly collaborative with leadership both inside and outside of Digital
• Problem solving on the fly and thinking on their feet.
• Create novel solutions and champion out of the box ideas for solving technical, architectural and process challenges
• Have deep familiarity with Generative AI, AI agents, APIs and cloud infrastructure
• Managing the product owners for all products related to citizen development, connectors and related tools
• Work with vendors, platform providers and delivery teams to connect the ecosystem together

Benefits

• participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program
• 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution
• paid vacation, holiday and personal days
• paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
• health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees