Director, AI Platform & Foundation

1. Role Summary The Director owns the China AI platform and the China LLM foundation end to end – architecture, engineering, security and compliance, release management, roadmap and budget. The platform gives Pfizer China teams governed access to locally available large language models (for example Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM) on China cloud providers, with an AI gateway and guardrails, separate innovation and production environments, and model and agent tooling on top. Its users are business analysts, data scientists and engineers across Pfizer China Commercial. Self-hosting of open-weight models may be a future requirement. The role is the single AITO interface with Corporate and Global CIO teams on the AI platform, makes China requirements visible to Global, re-uses global patterns before local build to avoid fragmentation, and runs the AI platform release gate. This is a hands-on leadership role: in the first year, the Director stands up and runs the China cloud environments and AI platform while building the AI platform team. 2. Key Accountabilities • Own the China AI platform end to end: architecture, engineering, security and compliance, release management, product roadmap and budget for licenses and infrastructure; maintain the roadmap with China business stakeholders and CIO platform teams, and decide which global platform capabilities are localized and which need a China-built equivalent. • Own cloud platform engineering on China cloud providers (Tencent Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, AWS China): environments, identity and access management, GPU capacity, model serving and deployment, monitoring, automation and infrastructure as code. • Own and manage the China LLM foundation: model selection, qualification, evaluation, version and lifecycle management, providing the model and platform layer on which the AI layer of the AI Empowered Consumption Layer (AICL) and China AI solutions are built; plan for self-hosting of open-weight models as a future option. • Lead onboarding and qualification of new models, cloud services and tools – security, privacy (including China data residency under PIPL), legal and China generative AI compliance – following global guidelines, and keep the platform inventory current. • Set AI platform and engineering standards: reference architectures, reusable patterns and non-functional requirements for model integration, agent runtime, guardrails, evaluation and MLOps / LLMOps, and engineering practices (code review, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, documentation). • Act as the single AITO interface with Corporate and Global CIO teams on the AI platform and its cloud, security and architecture requirements; represent China in global platform roadmaps, re-use global patterns (gateway, guardrails, observability, agent frameworks) where they apply, and bring China-proven capabilities back for global reuse. • Run the AI platform release gate that controls which models, services and AI components move from the innovation environment to production, aligned with the D&T go-live gate for business solutions. • Run the AI platform as a service: in-region on-call and incident response with escalation to global teams, runbooks, and reporting of service health, model and token utilization and cost into Pfizer’s global AI dashboards. • Work with Procurement, Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity and the China Data Protection Office (DPO) so the platform operates within guardrails, and manage cloud and software license vendors. • Support builder adoption with China business teams and engineers through sample agents, reusable components, documentation, training and an active user community, in step with GTMx AI fluency and enablement programs. • Lead and develop the AI platform team of colleagues and contractors, plus