Product Director - Synthetic Modality Drug Discovery

AstraZeneca

Cambridge, United Kingdom
Competitive; excellent benefits; not specified
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Product leadership in drug discovery
Cheminformatics and ai/ml expertise
Translate r&d needs to tech solutions
** AstraZeneca is seeking a Product Director for their Synthetic Modality Drug Discovery team in Cambridge, UK. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement advanced cheminformatics and AI solutions to enhance drug discovery processes. **

Job Summary

  • AstraZeneca has invested heavily in our strategic synthetic drug modality IT platform to deliver better, differentiated candidate drugs into trials, faster.
  • The next stage of this journey involves evolving and building out a unified scientific data and AI platform compatible with state-of-the-art algorithms and agentic approaches.
  • We are seeking an exceptional Product Director - Synthetic Modality Drug Discovery to join our platform leadership team, combining deep domain expertise with product leadership and team management.

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** AstraZeneca is seeking a Product Director for their Synthetic Modality Drug Discovery team in Cambridge, UK. The role involves leading a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement advanced cheminformatics and AI solutions to enhance drug discovery processes. **

Salary

Competitive; Excellent Benefits; Not specified

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Product leadership in drug discovery
  • Cheminformatics and AI/ML expertise
  • Translate R&D needs to tech solutions
  • Manage multi-disciplinary teams
  • Develop AI-ready drug discovery data products
  • System-level design and platform thinking

Nice-to-have

  • Chemistry data transformation and harmonization
  • Coding best practices including testing
  • Cloud services and tools experience
  • Machine Learning concepts and MLOps
  • Docker and Kubernetes experience
  • GitOps CI/CD experience

Key Requirements

  • PhD or several years' experience in drug discovery informatics
  • Demonstrable understanding of drug discovery processes
  • Excellent leadership skills in a matrixed environment
  • Line management experience of technical and scientific teams
  • Expertise in Cheminformatics, ML, or related field
  • Proficiency in Python, Java, or Node.js
  • Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases
  • Excellent teamworking, verbal, and written communication skills
  • Knowledge of agile and scrum delivery methodologies

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