Executive Director, Unified Lab & Experimental Platforms, Research; BI&T Cambridge Crossing

Position: Executive Director, Unified Lab & Experimental Platforms, Research (BI&T) Cambridge Crossing - [...]
## Executive Director, Unified Lab & Experimental Platforms, Research (BI&T)
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** Working with Us
** Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

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Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more:  Overview    Bristol Myers Squibb is seeking a highly experienced leader to serve as Executive Director, Unified Lab & Experimental Platforms, responsible for enabling a seamless, modality-agnostic digital lab ecosystem across Research & Development.

This leader will partner deeply with Research leadership, design and chemistry units, and laboratory leaders to deliver the lab applications, AI capabilities, lab operations, and data-capture infrastructure that support lab knowledge creation, capture, analysis, and workflow orchestration across diverse scientific domains—including translational and CLIA-regulated lab environments.
The role focuses on building an integrated, AI-enabled, future-ready lab environment that connects instruments, scientists, and digital applications into a cohesive and scalable system, while ensuring that regulated environments operate at the highest standards of quality and compliance. Together with peer BI&T leaders, this role contributes to a multi-year vision of fully integrated AI, data, and systems—ensuring deep understanding of how experimental data and knowledge flow across Research and into downstream Development.
Reporting to the Vice President of Research Business Insights & Technology (BI&T), this leader will operate as part of a unified BI&T leadership team and act as a trusted partner to Research leadership, translating scientific needs into scalable, integrated technology solutions. The leader will work closely with BMS’s dedicated R&D Data organization on the data products that flow downstream from lab systems.
Mission & Impact
* Partner with Research leadership to translate scientific strategy into a unified, modality-agnostic lab application and experimental platform footprint across R&D, including regulated/CLIA environments
* Drive the lab application backbone—electronic lab notebooks (ELN), LIMS, and entity registration systems—as a shared, reusable foundation for all Research
* Strategically design AI-native lab functionality (not just digitizing existing processes) to enable a cohesive, integrated lab-in-the-loop way of working across instruments, assays, and applications
* Advance lab-in-the-loop AI, including AI image analysis (digital pathology, high-content screening), agentic instrument and assay workflows, and predictive instrument maintenance
* Build toward a multi-year vision of fully integrated AI, data, and systems across the lab ecosystem—ensuring experimental data and knowledge flow seamlessly into downstream Development
* Reduce fragmentation across lab applications while maintaining regulated-environment quality, compliance, and auditability

Key Responsibilities
* Partner with research scientists, design and chemistry leaders, and laboratory leadership to shape and deliver the lab application and experimental platform roadmap
* Define and execute the Unified Lab technology strategy, spanning:  + Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELN)  + LIMS  + Entity registration systems  + Sample management  + Lab data capture and integration  + AI-native, bi-directional data and orchestration technologies
* Lead deployment of GenAI, agents, and ML…