Senior Manager, R&D Data, Data Science, and AI – Digital Health for Neuropsychiatry

Senior Manager, R&D Data, Data Science, and AI – Digital Health for Neuropsychiatry

Location: Cambridge, MA; Raritan, NJ; Titusville, NJ; Spring House, PA; San Diego, CA (La Jolla area). No fully remote option available.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with cross‑functional teams to define a neuropsychiatric digital health roadmap that integrates AI/ML, data science, and company priorities across the patient journey, ensuring clinical relevance and patient‑centered outcomes.
• Monitor emerging technologies in neuropsychiatry, digital phenotyping, remote assessment, passive sensing, and speech and language analytics to bring forward next‑generation solutions for neuropsychiatry R&D.
• Execute the neuropsychiatry‑focused digital health strategy by applying AI/ML, modeling, and longitudinal analytics to support patient stratification, endpoint development, and clinical trial optimization, in partnership with disease experts, statisticians, and platforms and clinical teams on study design and validation of digital measures, balancing their informativeness with low clinical burden for patients and study teams.
• Develop and apply sophisticated statistical/ML/AI models using digital health data to generate insights into disease and treatment outcomes, leveraging longitudinal disease modeling, Bayesian methods, and causal inference techniques to inform decision‑making.
• Develop multimodal approaches combining digital health data with imaging, blood‑based biomarkers, omics, and real‑world data to provide a more holistic picture of patients suffering from neuropsychiatric disease.
• Contribute to evidence packages to support regulatory qualification of digital endpoints and tools.
• Ensure validation and compliance with evolving global regulatory and data privacy standards.
• Collaborate with clinical operations to integrate digital health technologies into trial design, optimizing data capture, integration, and interoperability of digital solutions.
• Partner with regulatory and medical affairs to build external collaborations with academic groups, technology partners, regulators, health authorities, and payers to advance digital health standards and novel endpoints.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (PhD, MD, or equivalent) in neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering, data science, biostatistics, or a related quantitative or clinical field.
• 6+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or healthcare analytics.
• Experience in clinical development, digital health technologies, outcome assessments, biomarkers, or patient stratification approaches in clinical research, with demonstrated expertise in neuropsychiatry (preferred).
• Experience with biostatistics, machine learning, digital health data such as speech, language, behavior, sensor, and/or neuroimaging data, multimodal digital data integration, and longitudinal analysis.
• Track record developing and validating digital health tools, endpoints, or biomarkers.
• Familiarity with data standards, privacy regulations, and regulatory pathways for digital measures; experience supporting regulatory submissions (strong plus).
• Experience integrating digital solutions into patient recruitment, screening, and clinical trial operations.
• Excellent cross‑functional leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Track record of scientific contributions, including presentations and publications.

Preferred Skills

• Advanced Analytics
• Business Case Modeling
• Consulting
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
• Data Privacy Standards
• Data Science
• Data Structures
• Digital Fluency
• Digital Strategy
• End to End Implementation
• Global Market
• Negotiation
• Organizing
• Predictive Modeling
• Process Improvements
• Product Portfolio Management
• Technical Credibility

Compensation & Benefits

Base pay range: $137,000 to $235,750. Eligible for annual performance bonus per company plan. Bonus discretionary. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑ and long‑term disability, group legal insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, vacation up to 120 hours per year, sick time up to 40 hours per year, holiday pay up to 13 days per year, and flexible working arrangements.

Travel & Working Arrangements

Occasional travel required for cross‑functional workshops and team meetings.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource. If you are under 18 years of age, you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment, as well as get a parent’s consent for the background check.