Senior Director, Development AI Program Management

🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $242.8k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Ultragenyx

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Ultragenyx is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of individuals with rare and ultrarare genetic diseases. The company focuses on developing and delivering treatments for conditions where no current therapies exist, utilizing a variety of drug modalities tailored to each disease. Ultragenyx boasts a robust and diverse clinical pipeline, with therapies in development for genetic diseases such as Wilson Disease, osteogenesis imperfecta, and Angelman Syndrome. With a passionate team and a commitment to patient advocacy, Ultragenyx aims to lead the way in pioneering therapies that significantly impact rare disease communities.

📋 Description

• Lead delivery of Development’s highest-priority AI and operational transformation initiatives • Partner with IT, the Development organization, and the AI Steering Committee to prioritize the portfolio and maintain a sequenced roadmap • Orchestrate cross-functional teams and drive initiatives from concept through adoption, deployment, and hand-off • Own scope, timeline, budget, resourcing, dependencies, and risk management • Define success metrics and business cases, then track and report realized value after go-live • Translate business priorities into clear requirements and ensure solutions use IT platforms, standards, and scalable delivery models • Oversee quality, performance, outputs, drift, adoption, and compliance of deployed AI use cases • Ensure solutions remain compliant with GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, and data governance requirements • Lead adoption, training, and organizational change management • Establish program governance, status reporting, stage gates, steering updates, and decision forums • Engage stakeholders and senior leadership across Development, IT, AI Steering Committee, CMC, PPM, and partner functions • Develop and mentor project delivery talent and establish repeatable program-management standards, tools, and playbooks

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a scientific, engineering, technology, or business discipline required • 12+ years of experience in biopharma/life sciences drug development, R&D operations, or technology-enabled transformation, including 5+ years leading large, cross-functional programs and teams • Demonstrated success leading complex, enterprise-scale initiatives end-to-end and delivering measurable business outcomes and value realization • Working knowledge of AI/automation solutions and how they apply to Development workflows; able to bridge business needs and technical delivery in partnership with IT • Strong understanding of GxP-regulated environments, 21 CFR Part 11, data integrity, and validation expectations for computerized/AI systems • Proven ability to lead without direct authority, influence senior stakeholders, and drive alignment and decisions across functions • PMP, PgMP, Agile/Scrum, or equivalent program/project management certification preferred • Change-management certification (e.g., Prosci) a plus • Executive communication, portfolio prioritization, stakeholder management, risk management, metrics/value tracking, and change leadership • Ability to travel up to ~10-15% for team, partner, and stakeholder collaboration as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous vacation time and public holidays observed by the company • Volunteer days • Long term incentive and Employee stock purchase plans or equivalent offerings • Employee wellbeing benefits • Fitness reimbursement • Tuition sponsoring • Professional development plans • Annual bonus • Equity incentives