AI Product Owner – AI Workflow Platform

Sanofi • Cambridge, MA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

Join the digital engine driving Sanofi’s transformation - where AI, automation, and bold experimentation power faster science and smarter decisions. Here, you’ll help build the first biopharma company powered by AI at scale. We are seeking an AI Product Owner to lead a centralized Sanofi workflow execution platform supporting AI, analytics, and domain research workflows across R&D. This role owns the core platform responsible for orchestrating containerized and distributed workloads across cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. The platform integrates with enterprise research data systems and serves as the foundation for downstream AI/ML, Omics, Chemistry, CMC, Portfolio, and Clinical workflows. You will partner closely with platform engineers, infrastructure teams, and scientific stakeholders to ensure the platform is scalable, reliable, compliant, and easy to build on. This is a foundational platform ownership role. About Sanofi: We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Product Management or Product Ownership, ideally in platform, infrastructure, or scientific computing environments.
• Experience delivering products used by technical or scientific users.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum-based delivery.
• Familiarity with APIs, platform architecture, observability, and operational resilience.
• Clear product vision articulation and strategic thinking.
• Strong stakeholder management across engineering, science, and leadership.
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, fast-paced environments.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with workflow orchestration, containerized workloads, or HPC environments is strongly preferred.
• Experience with data platforms, ML workflows, or regulated systems is a plus.
• Advanced scientific or computational background is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Product Ownership Own the roadmap and backlog for the Sanofi workflow execution platform.
• Define requirements for workflow orchestration, runtime execution, APIs, metadata, logging, and observability.
• Balance platform reliability, scalability, and technical evolution with new capability development.
• Translate domain and engineering needs into clear, actionable product requirements.
• Platform Integration Define and manage integration between the workflow platform and enterprise research data systems.
• Ensure clean contracts for data access, metadata exchange, lineage, and governance.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and data teams to ensure enterprise-grade compliance and access control.
• HPC & Distributed Compute Enablement Own product requirements for large-scale compute execution across cloud and hybrid HPC environments.
• Define user experience for launching, monitoring, and troubleshooting compute-intensive workloads.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to align workload requirements with resource and cost models.
• Delivery & Execution Lead agile product delivery in partnership with engineering and Scrum leadership.
• Maintain a clear, prioritized backlog aligned to strategic objectives.
• Coordinate platform maintenance, operational support, and release planning.
• Proactively manage cross-team dependencies and platform sequencing risks.
• Continuous Improvement Monitor platform adoption, stability, and operational metrics.
• Incorporate user feedback to improve usability and performance.
• Ensure the platform evolves to support expanding AI and domain-specific workloads.

Benefits

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level