Senior Director, Computationally Driven Drug Discovery – In Silico Drug Discovery

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:
Data Science

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
US026 PA Spring House - 1400 McKean Rd, US064 CA San Diego - 3210 Merryfield Row, US258 MA Cambridge - 255 Main St

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.

Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. 
 

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine 
 

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Director, Computationally Driven Drug Discovery with the primary and preferred location for this position in Spring House, PA.  Consideration may be given for candidates who can be based in Cambridge, MA or San Diego, CA.
 

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM) is on a mission to improve human health with a focus in Oncology, Neuroscience, and Immunology.

We are searching for a Senior Director to join the In Silico Discovery team to help drive this mission forward with the application and development of cutting-edge molecular design strategies and AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) tools with direct impact on portfolio projects and team.

The In Silico Discovery Unit is a computational discovery team embedded in the Therapeutics Discovery organization, a modality agnostic discovery engine within JJIM responsible for driving all aspects of computational drug discovery across J&J’s Therapeutic Areas.

As a member of the In Silico Discovery Leadership Team and the Extended Leadership Team of Therapeutics Discovery, this role will play an influential part in transforming the organization into a computationally driven and prediction-first discovery engine.

This is an opportunity for an experienced leader with machine learning and structure-based drug design expertise to contribute to the most impactful and transformative projects at J&J. 

Key Responsibilities: 


* Drive our drug discovery transformation with a core responsibility to develop and apply our ambitious AI/ML strategy to bring computational methods to the forefront of drug design 


* Foster scientific excellence by integrating cutting-edge technologies in structure-based drug design w...