# Executive Director, Translational & Computational Biology

**Company**: Pfizer
**Location**: Bothell, Washington
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As the Executive Director, Translational & Computational Biology, you will apply deep biological and translational expertise, computational fluency, and scientific judgment to lead AI-enabled work that informs high-value decisions across Research & Development.

You will connect biology, data, and AI to decisions throughout the drug development lifecycle, focusing effort where better evidence can materially change what Pfizer does next. You will help shape the scientific questions themselves, determine what evidence is required, challenge analytical and model assumptions, and translate results into biological and clinical understanding that can influence programs and portfolios.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead a portfolio of high-value biological, translational, and clinical questions across R&D

- Serve as a senior scientific bridge between therapeutic-area teams and the AI Core

- Shape analytical and AI strategies, including study design, validation, and evidence standards

- Interpret complex multimodal evidence and translate it into clear scientific recommendations

- Influence scientific, development, and portfolio decisions through data and biological judgment

- Drive adoption and reuse of successful AI-enabled scientific approaches across programs and teams

**Requirements:**

- A PhD, MD, PharmD, or equivalent advanced degree in Computational Biology, Translational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genetics, Genomics, Systems Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Biostatistics, or a related discipline with 10+ years of relevant industry or research experience; or

- A Master's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience, or an equivalent record of scientific and translational impact

- Demonstrated strategic and scientific leadership experience

- Working or strong proficiency in R and/or Python, or equivalent computational tools

- Experience integrating multiple data types and working with AI-enabled scientific workflows

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Significant experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical R&D

- Demonstrated impact across drug discovery, translational research, clinical development, precision medicine, or biomarker strategy

- Experience applying or adopting AI-enabled scientific workflows in real R&D settings

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## Skills

### Required
- R
- Python
- Computational Biology
- Translational Biology
- Bioinformatics
- Genetics
- Genomics
- Systems Biology
- Biomedical Sciences
- Biostatistics
- Machine Learning
- AI

### Nice to have
- biotechnology
- pharmaceutical R&D
- AI-enabled scientific workflows
- drug discovery
- translational research
- clinical development
- precision medicine
- biomarker strategy

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