Senior Manager, External Innovation and Partnerships

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, San Francisco, California, United States of America

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Manager, External Innovation and Partnerships. The preferred location is Cambridge, MA. Locations of New Brunswick, NJ or San Francisco, CA may be an option. The Technology Strategy & External Innovation organization drives future-focused technology strategy, identifies innovation opportunities, and shapes technology partnerships across Innovative Medicine, Med Tech, and corporate functions. As Senior Manager, External Innovation & Technology Partnerships, you will identify, evaluate, and advance high-potential technology companies and partners across deep tech and enterprise technology domains—including AI, enterprise software, data infrastructure, security, cloud/edge technologies, advanced compute, and quantum computing.

You will build clear investment and partnering theses around emerging technology trends, translate technical signals into actionable opportunity areas, and deliver a qualified pipeline of external partners that can address J&J’s critical enterprise priorities. This role is ideal for a technically fluent ecosystem builder who can move between technology understanding, partner discovery, strategic thesis development, and hands‑on execution—while helping shape partner roadmaps toward meaningful enterprise impact.

• Develop clear theses on emerging technology trends, ecosystems, and capability gaps that matter to J&J’s enterprise technology agenda.
• Translate technical, market, and ecosystem signals into actionable implications for enterprise architecture, product roadmaps, operating models, and strategic partnerships.
• Assess companies, technologies, and technical differentiation with enough depth to separate durable capability from hype.
• Lead work across a cross‑functional team to gather input and consensus on strategic insights and outcomes.
• Shape outcomes in a matrixed operating environment harnessing insights from business groups, technology and external ecosystem partners.

• Build, codify, and maintain a repeatable sourcing and external engagement approach for deep tech, enterprise software, AI, infrastructure, security, and other priority technology domains.
• Define sourcing hypotheses, technical evaluation criteria, search strategies, and workflows that move opportunities from discovery to assessment, engagement, pilot design, and progression.
• Create internal guidance, playbooks, templates, governance, and decision‑gate mechanisms for evaluating external partners.
• Map and actively cultivate the external ecosystem…