AI Innovation Lead, Life Sciences Acceleration Hub

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The AI Innovation Lead
- Life Sciences is responsible for defining and accelerating the AI-enabled delivery strategy for Salesforce's global Life Sciences Professional Services business. This executive will serve as the strategic bridge between Professional Services, Customer Success, Product Management, Engineering, and Global Delivery, ensuring that customer implementation experience directly influences product evolution, AI innovation, and delivery transformation.

Working across more than 50 global Life Sciences customer implementations today, with significant growth expected over the next several years, this leader will identify implementation patterns, prioritize innovation investments, and help shape the next generation of industry-specific AI capabilities, reusable assets, and delivery accelerators.

Leading a global team, this role will help transform delivery intelligence into scalable solutions that improve customer outcomes, accelerate AI adoption, and enable consistent, high-quality delivery across the Life Sciences industry.

Key Responsibilities Industry Delivery Intelligence
* Develop a comprehensive view of implementation trends, customer challenges, and delivery opportunities across Salesforce's global Life Sciences portfolio.
* Identify common patterns across customer engagements and translate those insights into strategic opportunities for AI, automation, reusable assets, implementation accelerators, and delivery innovation.
* Establish a continuous feedback model that transforms implementation experience into scalable delivery capabilities.

Agentic Delivery Strategy
* Define the roadmap for Life Sciences-specific agentic delivery capabilities that improve implementation quality, delivery productivity, and customer outcomes.
* Prioritize the AI assets, accelerators, reusable frameworks, and implementation capabilities needed to bridge the gap between current product capabilities and customer demand.
* Recommend strategic investment priorities for industry-specific AI innovation and partner across Professional Services Technology to bring those capabilities to market.

Product & Customer Partnership
* Serve as the primary liaison between Global Professional Services, Customer Success, and Product Management for Life Sciences.
* Capture customer and delivery feedback and translate it into actionable product enhancements, roadmap priorities, and implementation best practices.
* Partner closely with Product Engineering to ensure implementation insights directly influence product strategy and future platform capabilities.

Cross Functional Leadership
* Serve as the executive subject matter expert for Agentic Transformation within the Life Sciences industry.
* Partner closely with Professional Services Delivery, Customer Success, Product, Global Delivery Centers, Agentic Innovation, Global Tools & Productivity Engineering, and Global Technology Foundations & Architecture to accelerate AI adoption across Life Sciences engagements.
* Help align industry priorities across delivery methodology, AI investments, reusable assets, and product innovation.

Industry Innovation Portfolio
* Define and prioritize the portfolio of Life Sciences-specific AI assets, implementation accelerators, reusable delivery patterns, and agentic solutions.
* Partner with the Pro Serv Agentic Innovation Lab and engineering teams to convert customer insights into scalable technical capabilities.
* Establish governance to measure adoption, business impact, customer outcomes, and value realization across the Life Sciences innovation portfolio.

Organizational Leadership
* Lead and develop a high-performing global team of approximately 20 professionals focused on industry innovation, architecture, delivery excellence, and AI enablement.
* Foster a culture of innovation, customer obsession, continuous learning, and AI-first…