Director, R&D Data Science, Data Products - Global Development

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM), a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director, R&D Data Science, Data Products – Global Development.

This position has a primary location of Titusville, NJ but is also open to Spring House, PA or Cambridge, MA.  This position requires up to 25% travel.

 

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.

Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine 

Position Summary 

The Director, Data Products – Global Development is responsible for leading the strategy, design, and delivery of user-centric, reusable data products that enable advanced analytics, data science, and AI/ML solutions across the Global Development organization.

This role ensures that high-value internal and external development data assets—including protocol, study design, operational, regulatory, disclosure, and real-world data (RWD/RWE)—are standardized, productized, and integrated into Janssen’s enterprise R&D data ecosystem. 

Working closely with Global Development Data Science teams, Clinical Development, Operations, and Regulatory stakeholders, as well as the broader Data Strategy & Products organization, this leader ensures that Global Development data products are AI-ready, semantically consistent, and interoperable, enabling trial efficiency, regulatory readiness, and improved compliance outcomes. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Data Product Strategy & Execution 


* Lead a team to define and deliver data products addressing critical Global Development use cases (e.g., study startup, TMF metadata, operational KPIs, submission readiness). 



* Define and maintain a roadmap for Global Development data products, spanning protocol development through clinical trial disclosure. 



* Develop data products through agile delivery and FAIR data pr...