Senior Director, Light-Track Delivery – AI Automation

🕒 July 29

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

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🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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Parexel

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1983

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 Venture Round on 1990-01

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Parexel is one of the world's largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing comprehensive services for the clinical development process from Phase I to IV. The company specializes in portfolio management, clinical trial management, regulatory strategy, market access, and lifecycle management for biopharmaceuticals. Parexel aims to speed life-changing medicines to market by leveraging its clinical, regulatory, and therapeutic expertise. With a global team of over 21,000 professionals, Parexel works to integrate patient insights and innovative trial designs to develop treatments across therapeutic areas such as oncology, neuroscience, rare diseases, and more. It focuses on delivering patient-centric and efficient clinical trials.

📋 Description

• Lead the team building rapid-turn AI solutions across Parexel: RPA automations, AI agents and assistants, and other small-scale automation work, balancing direct delivery with citizen-developer enablement • Manage a portfolio of small-to-medium AI and automation initiatives through the enterprise intake process, maintaining visibility on scope, status, value delivered, and available capacity • Oversee the team that builds AI agents and assistants on platforms including Copilot Studio and Parexel AI Assistant (PAIA), developing reusable patterns and templates that accelerate development • Lead the RPA team delivering process automations on UiPath and adjacent platforms, managing the intake-to-delivery cycle and maintaining the existing RPA portfolio • Establish and maintain governance discipline that enables fast delivery without sprawl, including triage, platform-fit decisions, quality standards, and reuse documentation • Enable and coach business super-users who build their own agents and assistants, surfacing high-value patterns for productization • Serve as senior point of contact for light-track delivery across all Parexel functions, building trusted relationships with business unit leaders and partnering with cross-functional teams • Lead a multidisciplinary team across multiple geographies, including engineers, citizen-developer enablement specialists, and operations leads, developing talent across both professional engineering and citizen-developer enablement paths

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field • 12+ years in technology delivery, engineering management, or automation leadership • At least 5 years leading multidisciplinary teams • Direct experience leading RPA or process automation programs at enterprise scale • Experience with citizen-developer enablement and the operational realities of supporting non-engineer builders • Strong understanding of when to build vs. defer, and how to choose among available platforms for a given problem

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, Vision & Dental Insurance • Tuition Reimbursement • Vacation/Holiday/Sick Time • Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts • Work/Life Balance • 401(k) with Company match • Pet Insurance