# AI Product Director

**Company**: Syneos Health
**Location**: IND-Hyderabad-Hybrid
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Lead the strategy, creation and scaling of a new generation of AI-powered products for the Clinical Research Organization (CRO) ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

**Product & Business Strategy**

- Define product vision, strategy, portfolio and multi-year roadmap for AI-enabled CRO products.

- Identify high-value opportunities across clinical development and CRO workflows and translate them into differentiated product propositions.

- Establish product-market fit, success metrics, business cases and commercialization strategies.

- Drive build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions for critical technology capabilities.

**AI & GenAI Product Engineering**

- Identify and productize opportunities across Generative AI, agentic AI, ML, predictive analytics, intelligent automation and AI-enabled workflows.

- Partner closely with AI/ML and engineering leaders on AI architecture, model selection, RAG, agents, evaluation, LLMOps/MLOps, data pipelines and productionization.

- Establish principles for responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, evaluation and human oversight in regulated clinical environments.

- Translate rapidly evolving AI capabilities into reliable, scalable and measurable customer outcomes.

**0→1 Product Development**

- Lead products from customer discovery and problem validation through MVP, product-market fit, launch and scale.

- Build rapid experimentation and feedback loops with customers, clinical experts and engineering teams.

- Balance speed of innovation with enterprise-grade reliability, security, compliance and scalability.

**Customer & Market Leadership**

- Engage senior pharmaceutical, biotech and CRO stakeholders to understand unmet needs and validate product opportunities.

- Convert customer insights, market trends and competitive intelligence into product strategy.

- Partner with commercial teams on positioning, pricing, packaging and go-to-market.

**Product Organization & Cross-functional Leadership**

- Establish scalable product management practices and operating mechanisms for the new business.

- Build and mentor a high-performing product organization as the portfolio grows.

- Create alignment across product, engineering, AI/data, clinical, commercial and executive stakeholders.

- Drive a culture of experimentation, customer obsession, technical excellence and measurable outcomes.

**Success Measures**

- A differentiated, scalable portfolio of AI-powered CRO products.

- Successful 0→1 launches and measurable product-market fit.

- Meaningful customer adoption and measurable business value.

- AI/GenAI capabilities successfully transitioned from experimentation to production-grade products.

- Strong integration of clinical expertise, proprietary data, AI and engineering capabilities.

- A scalable product organization capable of supporting a global business.

**Experience**

- 15 years of experience leading technology products, platforms or product businesses in complex enterprise environments.

- Proven 0→1 and product-scaling track record.

- Strong understanding of AI/ML, GenAI, agentic systems, data platforms and modern software engineering.

- Experience partnering deeply with engineering and technical leadership on architecture and product development.

- Strong customer discovery, product strategy, commercialization and executive communication skills.

- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, CRO, regulated industries or other data-intensive environments is highly desirable.

- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity and build products, teams and operating models from the ground up

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- ML
- GenAI
- product management
- software engineering
- data platforms

### Nice to have
- healthcare
- life sciences
- CRO
- regulated industries

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