What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, R&D Data Science & Digital Health, Drug Discovery position at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine?
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com
Job Function
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences
Job Sub Function
Data Science Portfolio Management
Job Category
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is currently seeking an Associate Director, DSDH Discovery Portfolio. This position can be located in one of our office locations in either Spring House, PA, Cambridge, MA, New Brunswick, NJ, Raritan, NJ, Titusville, NJ, or San Diego. (No fully remote option available.)
Key Responsibilities
As an associate director, you will join the Data Science and Digital Health organization within Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine leading the development of in silico immune disease models and knowledge integration methods to drive the development of innovative drugs. You will play a crucial role in building how we identify, characterize and advance drug candidates providing innovative, multi-modal insights of complex biological regulation through the lens of computational modeling. Your responsibilities will include overseeing collaborations with multidisciplinary teams, guiding model development, and ensuring adherence to best practices in software engineering. You will work alongside biologists and immunologists to convert their biological hypotheses into testable computational outcomes. This role provides technical leadership, drives cross-functional collaborations, and ensures scientific and engineering rigor across projects.
In This Role, You Will
Ph.D. in systems biology, computer science, software engineering, or a related field, with 5 years of relevant industry experience; or Master’s degree with 8 years of experience, is required.
Required Qualifications
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $137,000 to $235,750. The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Employees Are Eligible For The Following Time Off Benefits
Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.
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Job Function
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences
Job Sub Function
Data Science Portfolio Management
Job Category
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description
Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.
Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is currently seeking an Associate Director, DSDH Discovery Portfolio. This position can be located in one of our office locations in either Spring House, PA, Cambridge, MA, New Brunswick, NJ, Raritan, NJ, Titusville, NJ, or San Diego. (No fully remote option available.)
Key Responsibilities
As an associate director, you will join the Data Science and Digital Health organization within Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine leading the development of in silico immune disease models and knowledge integration methods to drive the development of innovative drugs. You will play a crucial role in building how we identify, characterize and advance drug candidates providing innovative, multi-modal insights of complex biological regulation through the lens of computational modeling. Your responsibilities will include overseeing collaborations with multidisciplinary teams, guiding model development, and ensuring adherence to best practices in software engineering. You will work alongside biologists and immunologists to convert their biological hypotheses into testable computational outcomes. This role provides technical leadership, drives cross-functional collaborations, and ensures scientific and engineering rigor across projects.
In This Role, You Will
- Lead and mentor teams in the development and validation of computational models for immune and autoimmune disease biology, translating biological hypotheses into testable in silico experiments, and developing follow-up experiment plans in response to model predictions.
- Manage a portfolio of complex projects and collaborations that deepen the integration of data science and functional immunology drug development
- Serve as the principal partner to Translational Research and/or Discovery teams, aligning project output to therapeutic decision points.
- Oversee external collaborations with contract research organizations and academic partners; ensure high-quality data exchange and joint deliverables.
- Communicate results clearly and persuasively through technical reports, internal presentations, cross-functional briefings, and peer-reviewed publications.
- Opportunity to shape translational computational modeling that directly impacts therapeutic decisions and patient outcomes.
- Collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment with access to experimental teams, clinical scientists, and external partners.
- Mentorship and leadership responsibilities with clear impact on research direction and career growth.
Ph.D. in systems biology, computer science, software engineering, or a related field, with 5 years of relevant industry experience; or Master’s degree with 8 years of experience, is required.
Required Qualifications
- Experience in designing, managing, and executing projects in drug discovery, differentiation, biomarker design, etc. driven using multi-omics, computational modeling, and bioinformatics
- Demonstrated history of collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams including computational and biological scientists, mediating and maintaining both computational and biological rigor
- Practical experience working with contract research organizations and managing external research partnerships.
- Strong project leadership skills: setting strategy, defining milestones, managing timelines, and delivering results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences, including non-expert stakeholders.
- First-hand experience in immunology research and drug development highly preferred.
- Demonstrated working knowledge in the implementation and application of machine learning and ai-powered methods to biology is highly preferred
- Experience with knowledge integration and multi-model/multi-modal integration methods preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences, including non-expert stakeholders.
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers or internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $137,000 to $235,750. The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
Employees Are Eligible For The Following Time Off Benefits
Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.
#JNJDataScience
#JNJIMRND-DS
#JRDDS
Salary : $137,000 - $235,750
