Customer Strategy Director, Ecosystem Programs

About Faro

Faro AI aims to improve lives by helping life sciences companies answer complex clinical questions simply, efficiently and effectively. Our software platform gives clinical development teams a single source of truth for study design, bringing structured data, documents and teams together so they can design better trials and reach important milestones faster.

Faro is a mission-driven company and we pride ourselves on a vibrant, inclusive, and growth mindset-oriented culture. Faro offers competitive compensation and benefits, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and remote-friendly ways of working. Remote employees work from home and travel periodically for in-person collaboration and team events.

Faro is looking for a Customer Strategy Director, Ecosystem Programs to join our growing team. This is a senior individual contributor role designed to lead some of Faro's most strategic and multi-dimensional customer programs at the intersection of business strategy, clinical development, data and technology.

As Faro expands its work with leading pharmaceutical organisations, our customer engagements increasingly extend beyond adoption of established solutions. We are working alongside customers and other organisations to define new capabilities, develop new operating models, connect disparate technology and data ecosystems for a more unified data workflow, and determine how emerging solutions can create measurable business value.

In this role, you will provide the strategic leadership needed to move these programs from conception to execution. You will combine executive-level customer relationship skills and management consulting-style problem solving with sufficient technical depth to lead conversations involving data architecture, analytics, statistics, integrations and complex clinical development workflows.

You will not be expected to replace Faro's Product, Data or technical specialists. Instead, you will provide the bridge between business and technical stakeholders, translating between audiences, helping to drive decisions and ensure specialist expertise is brought in where it creates the greatest value.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced management consultant, strategic advisor or customer transformation leader with a background in data and analytics who wants to move closer to long-term customer outcomes while helping shape how AI and technology transform clinical development.

• Lead some of Faro's most strategically important and complex customer programs
• Work at the intersection of business strategy, clinical development, AI, data and technology
• Build long-term relationships with senior leaders across the world's leading life sciences organisations
• Help define how Faro approaches emerging customer capabilities, innovation and ecosystem programs as the company scales
• Join a growing Customer Strategy function with meaningful influence on Faro's customers, product and future operating model

• Strategic Program & Executive Leadership: Lead large ecosystem and innovation programs that extend beyond established solution adoption, bringing structure and direction to initiatives where the path forward may not yet be fully defined. Guide programs from early definition through execution and measurable outcomes while building trusted relationships with senior and executive stakeholders and maintaining alignment between Faro and Customer organizations.
• Business & Technical Advisory: Bring the technical fluency to engage credibly with both business and technical stakeholders, translating between customer objectives, emerging capabilities, and technical considerations. Use that understanding to ask the right questions, identify key dependencies and implications, and guide informed decisions, partnering with Faro's Data Science, Implementation Services, Product, and Engineering teams when specialist technical expertise is required.
• Transformation & Change Leadership: Shape the change strategies and operating approaches required to turn emerging capabilities into sustainable ways of working. Help customers navigate the…