Director, Patient Engagement AI Transformation

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Titusville, NJ +1

Director of Patient Engagement AI Transformation at Johnson & Johnson, leading the AI transformation and execution roadmap for patient support services. This role involves building and leading a team, owning the AI/ML product portfolio end-to-end, shaping the AI roadmap, identifying intervention points, ensuring compliance, driving use-case evaluation, proving impact through rigorous measurement and A/B testing, and championing AI transformation across the enterprise.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and lead a high-performing organization of 5+ direct and 10+ indirect reports, developing enterprise AI capability and positioning the team to deliver against long-range strategic priorities
  2. Own the AI/ML product portfolio end-to-end for patient support services (including Patient Engagement.AI) within all Therapeutic Areas, serving as the single point of accountability from concept through scaled deployment
  3. Shape the patient AI roadmap through day-to-day partnership with senior leaders across PECS (Patient Experience & Customer Solutions), Brand Sales & Marketing, Media, Advanced Analytics, Data Science & Engineering, and IT
  4. Identify and quantify the highest-value intervention points across the patient journey -where, when, and how to act so patients start and stay on therapy
  5. Embed compliance by design, partnering with HCC, Privacy, and Legal to ensure every solution meets regulatory and ethical standards from day one

Skills

Required

  • A minimum of 10 years of relevant business experience in healthcare, analytics, data science, marketing, management consulting or related field is required.
  • A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required
  • Deep fluency with healthcare data ecosystems - integrating and analyzing claims, EHR, lab, specialty pharmacy, SDOH/consumer, and patient hub data to generate actionable insight
  • Hands-on practitioner of AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Copilot Studio) in daily workflows, with concrete examples of measurable gains in delivery speed, output quality, or personal productivity
  • Track record of driving field adoption - moving AI solutions beyond pilots to sustained, embedded usage by commercialization teams
  • Proven influence with senior stakeholders, building alignment across functions without direct authority
  • Exceptional people leadership - coaching, developing, and retaining high-performing talent
  • Intellectual curiosity and adaptability - energized by learning new things and comfortable with shifting timelines and priorities

Nice to have

  • Master degree preferred
  • Working knowledge of predictive analytics and ML techniques (supervised, unsupervised, deep learning) and their real-world applications

What the JD emphasized

  • Embed compliance by design
  • partnering with HCC, Privacy, and Legal to ensure every solution meets regulatory and ethical standards from day one
  • Prove impact with rigor
  • establish the measurement framework, define leading and lagging indicators, and run A/B tests to quantify what's working

Other signals

  • AI solutions that help real patients start therapy sooner, stay on it longer, and experience care that feels personal
  • Own the AI/ML product portfolio end-to-end for patient support services
  • Embed compliance by design
  • Prove impact with rigor - establish the measurement framework, define leading and lagging indicators, and run A/B tests to quantify what's working