Sr / Principal Business Impact Lead – R&D Pharma (AI Solution Architect)

Aily Labs • New York, NY

174d • Hybrid

About The Position

As an R&D Business Impact Lead, you act as the domain expert and solution architect for Aily App R&D modules. Your mission is to embed Aily App into core R&D routines across research, portfolio governance, clinical development, and pipeline strategy, enabling Fortune 500 companies to move faster from signal to scientific and portfolio action. You own the Aily.r&d client journey from first integration to enterprise-wide adoption, ensuring the product is fully deployed, trusted, and embedded into daily R&D decision-making to deliver measurable performance impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor, Master, PhD, or MBA degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Business, or a related field
• Strong understanding of R&D decision-making in large enterprises, including portfolio governance and clinical development processes
• 5+/7+ years of experience in R&D strategy, pharmaceutical consulting, clinical operations, portfolio management, or innovation leadership roles
• Exposure to R&D analytics, performance management, or digital transformation initiatives
• Tech-savvy profile with fluency in data and AI concepts, including data requirements and model behavior, gained through close collaboration with product and data science teams

Nice To Haves

• Background in tech consulting, solution architecture, or product-facing roles
• Experience with AI-powered, analytics, or data-intensive R&D products
• Exposure to enterprise SaaS environments
• Experience mentoring, leading, or scaling small teams or domain practices
• Experience working across global R&D organizations or multi-therapeutic portfolios teams
• Proven experience working with Fortune 500 or large enterprise clients
• Extreme ownership mindset, with accountability for outcomes, adoption, and time to value
• Strong communication skills with senior procurement and executive stakeholders
• Ability to operate autonomously in complex, multi-stakeholder environments

Responsibilities

• Translate research, portfolio governance, and clinical development routines into product requirements and AI decision logic
• Define AI outcomes and R&D decision quality standards
• Co-shape scalable product capabilities across research, portfolio, and clinical use cases
• Partner with Product, ML, and Engineering on feasibility and R&D operational readiness
• Define and own data requirements, data collection, and AI fine-tuning needs to accelerate deployment and time to value
• Influence the product roadmap through client impact and adoption insights
• Act as the trusted R&D domain expert for clients and internal Product and AI teams
• Be the trusted advisor to Chief R&D Officers, Heads of R&D, portfolio leaders, clinical operations heads, and innovation executives
• Represent R&D user needs in product and roadmap discussions
• Communicate AI and data topics, assumptions, and trade-offs in clear business language
• Drive rollouts from entry-point use cases to enterprise-wide adoption
• Own time to first active user and time to routine across R&D deployments
• Upskill and evangelize R&D users through workshops, executive sessions, and engagement campaigns
• Ensure AI becomes embedded into daily R&D governance, portfolio, and clinical decision-making cadences

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with performance-based rewards
• Open feedback culture, continuous learning, and freedom to experiment
• Memorable team off-sites, global events, and a culture that values ambition, autonomy, and impact

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree