Associate Director, Design Strategy & Engineering

Associate Director, Design Strategy & Engineering

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care, as well as products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

Purpose: Data Science and Analytics is an ambitious team of Data Scientists and Data Engineers with a unique blend of Business, Scientific, and Machine Learning expertise that seeks to unleash the full potential of Abb Vie’s data assets by bringing technology and insights to the forefront of decision making via fit‑for‑purpose solutions. The Associate Director, Design Strategy & Engineering leads the UX/UI development team responsible for designing and implementing intuitive, high‑impact user experiences and front‑end solutions for Data Science and Analytics products.

• Responsible for people management including managing line-level people managers.
• Oversees UX/UI and front‑end development strategy for Data Science & Analytics (DSA) product portfolio, ensuring best practices in accessibility, usability, and modern front‑end architectures.
• Partners closely with cross‑functional stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Clinical, Compliance teams) to translate analytical capabilities and complex datasets into engaging user interfaces.
• Champions design‑thinking principles and user‑centered approaches to accelerate adoption and impact of DSA solutions.
• Drives continuous improvement in front‑end quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance across all DSA products.
• Lead implementation of next‑generation technology and processes to enable enterprise data analytics on pace with emerging integrated data sources.
• Coaches, mentors, and manages performance of direct reports; aligns talent development with R&D business needs.
• Represents the functional area at critical governance, quality, compliance, and regulatory meetings.
• Ensures consistent analytics support through effective resource management, prioritization, and timeline management.
• Fosters innovation and entrepreneurial culture within the team, attracts and retains top talent, and creates an environment of continuous learning.
• Ensures adherence to federal regulations and applicable local regulations, GCPs, ICH Guidelines, Abb Vie SOPs, and functional quality standards.

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, bioinformatics, data science or equivalent;
  Master’s degree preferred.
• 6–8+ years of experience enabling novel analytics capabilities through UI/UX across business areas, with 3–4 years of experience leading a team or cross‑functional initiatives.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams in UX/UI design, front‑end engineering, or product design for analytics or data‑driven applications.
• Familiarity with front‑end frameworks (e.g., Angular), design systems, and rapid prototyping tools (e.g., Figma).
• Experience with visualization, dashboard creation tools, and interactive analytical web application platforms (e.g., Dash Enterprise, Spotfire).
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy for design and engineering within complex product portfolios.
• Working knowledge of digital accessibility standards and best practices for inclusive product design.
• Intermediate proficiency in R, Python or other statistical packages; knowledge of statistical and data mining techniques.
• Proven project‑management skills.
• Experience with Machine Learning and other advanced analytics techniques.
• Excellent communication skills; ability to convey analytical and technical concepts in layman’s terms.
• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills.
• Track record of successful execution in a fast‑paced environment and managing multiple priorities.
• Ability to influence cross‑functional leaders at Director level.
• Good understanding of clinical development functional areas and related processes (preferred).
• Proven track‑record with leading complex cross‑functional initiatives.

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