Associate Director of AI External Innovation and Partnerships

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Associate Director of AI External Innovation and Partnerships will leverage their expertise at the intersection of AI and biopharmaceuticals to support strategic partnerships at AbbVie.

This position will focus on identifying and implementing AI-centric partnerships and collaborations that enhance AbbVie’s AI/ML capabilities and pipeline.

Responsibilities:

• Support the team to develop the overall strategies and tactics for identifying, assessing, and partnering with AI-driven drug discovery companies, technology firms, and venture firms that align with AbbVie’s AI strategy.
• Support due diligence efforts for a range of AI-related partnerships (e.g., with AI-driven drug discovery companies, Big Tech, research labs focused on foundational LLMs, data companies, academia), including AI technology assessments, market analysis, and risk evaluations. This will be in partnership with Search and Evaluation and Business Development and Acquisition teams.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive and ensure effective communication, efficient decision-making, and completion of AI/ML-related partnerships in a timely manner.
• Support the integration of input from various functional areas across the organization to create high quality, clear, and decision-enabling technical assessments, due diligence reports and presentations with recommendations to AbbVie’s Executive Management team of partnership opportunities in the AI/ML space.
• Monitor emerging AI trends and advancements in biopharma to inform strategic decision-making.
• Develop and maintain a strong network of AI experts, thought leaders, and innovators to ensure AbbVie remains at the forefront of AI developments.
• Proactively participate in industry forums, conferences, and consortia to strengthen external engagement and visibility in AI innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Physics, Mathematics, Computational Chemistry, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biology, or a related discipline and 9 years of working experience in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, relevant Biopharmaceutical industry or Private Equity / Venture Capital experience.
• Master's Degree with 8 years’ experience; PhD with 4 years’ experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience, including in AI/ML applications in life sciences or healthcare. 
• Demonstrated project management skills to support cross-functional teams in evaluating partnering opportunities and producing high quality due diligence reports.
• Ability to drive projects to deliver timely results and follow through on internal and external commitments.
• Exemplary written and oral communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business perspective.
• Strong existing network and networking skills to reach out to a broad range of industry decision makers to keep abreast of emerging opportunities in AI.
• Strong business acumen and ability to drive well-informed, fact-based decision making

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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