Senior Director, Applied AI Solutions

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At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.   Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.   We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description   The Senior Director, Applied AI Solutions, leads the applied AI function within the AI Research Center (ARC), part of Gilead’s Clinical Data Science (CDS) organization in Drug Development. As CDS’s center of excellence for applied AI, this leader is accountable for the technical and product path from a prioritized AI use case defined by CDS functional organizations to a trusted, reusable capability in production — spanning discovery, experimentation, technical validation, first production release, adoption support, and measured value. The ownership model is deliberate. Business ownership of priorities, requirements, funding, process change, and workflow outcomes remains with the CDS and Development functions, including Clinical Data Engineering & Analytics (CDEA) and Statistical Programming. Enterprise platform services, infrastructure, and scaled production operations and support remain with Enterprise IT and Development Systems. This role supplies the AI expertise, solution engineering, and delivery capacity that make both possible, and is measured on how effectively it accelerates outcomes owned by others. The role combines technical depth, product-minded execution, and people leadership. You will define ARC’s applied AI engineering practices — model and prompt lifecycle, evaluation, agent design patterns, solution architecture — and influence the enterprise engineering and architecture standards owned by IT, while remaining close enough to the work to make consequential design decisions and to lead multidisciplinary teams building AI systems for internal CDS and Development users. Priority domains for AI enablement may include clinical data review and insights, study design and operations, biomarker and real-world data workflows, safety and risk detection, regulatory evidence generation, and scientific knowledge access. In each of these domains the owning CDS or Development function leads its own workflow and process transformation agenda; this role provides the AI solutions, methods, and technical expertise that enable it. Applied AI Solutions favors reusable capabilities over isolated proofs of concept. The team builds on Gilead’s approved data, cloud, security, privacy, and responsible-AI foundations and on the enterprise platform services provided by IT, and partners closely with ARC’s Product Management & Experiences (PMx) and AI Acceleration (AIx) functional (scientific and operational) teams, as well as with Development Systems, Enterprise IT, Information Security, Privacy, Legal, Quality, CDEA, Statistical Programming, and business stakeholders. The mandate: turn high-value

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