Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Posted September 10, 2026

Senior Director, Product Management

New York City, United States Full time
Information Technology Senior Director
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ROLE SUMMARY

This role owns global product accountability for one or more lead enterprise AI and digital products serving Medical Affairs globally, spanning Oncology, International, and enterprise-wide capabilities, and representing a multi-million-dollar portfolio of AI investment. The Senior Director, Product Management is the single point of accountability for a product's full lifecycle: from opportunity identification and business case, through requirements definition, roadmap sequencing, and delivery, to scaled global deployment and post-launch value realization.

This is a peer role to the Senior Director, Solution Architecture and the Senior Director, Engineering, together forming the leadership structure driving the Medical AI Acceleration portfolio: Product Management defines what gets built and why, Architecture defines how it is built, and Engineering builds and deploys it. Prioritization decisions made in this role directly determine where architectural and engineering investment is spent, giving this role primary influence over the return generated on the portfolio's technology investment. Success is measured in adoption, business value, and outcome impact.

This position routinely engages VP- and SVP-level stakeholders, including the Head of US Medical Affairs, Therapeutic Area/Category Leads, Field Medical Leads, MEI Lead, MEI Platform Leads and Compliance and Legal Leads, across global Medical Affairs, Digital Technology, and Commercial functions to negotiate priorities, resolve conflicting business needs, and secure alignment on product direction. It requires the ability to operate with significant autonomy against ambiguous, competing stakeholder demands, and the executive presence to influence senior leaders who do not report into this role.

Pfizer's Medical Affairs organization is scaling a portfolio of enterprise AI and digital products designed to transform how medical strategy, evidence generation, and field engagement operate. The Senior Director, Product Management will lead one or more of these products end-to-end, translating complex, often competing business needs from a broad and senior global stakeholder base into a coherent product vision, a prioritized roadmap, and well-defined feature, product and technical requirements that delivery teams can build against. This is a strategic, business-facing role that determines what gets built and why.  It also requires strong knowledge of digital technology and how solutions are built and deployed.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership

Own the end-to-end product vision, strategy, and roadmap for one or more global Medical Affairs AI/digital products, from initial ideation through scaled global deployment.

Serve as the implementation lead for developing global products, engaging a team of broad stakeholders from across Medical Affairs and reporting progress to Air Traffic Control.

Translate enterprise and Medical Affairs strategic priorities into a product strategy with clear value hypotheses, target outcomes, and success metrics.

Continuously evaluate therapeutic area, market and regulatory trends (e.g., HTA, EU AI Act) to keep the roadmap ahead of business need.

Collaborate with Commercial product leads to define integration points to Commercially led products.

Stakeholder Engagement & Requirements Translation

Serve as the primary product point of contact for a broad, senior stakeholder base across global Medical Affairs, Oncology, International, and adjacent functions.

Elicit, synthesize, and translate ambiguous or conflicting business needs from multiple senior stakeholders into clear, documented product, feature and technical requirements.

Facilitate structured prioritization and trade-off discussions among VP/SVP-level stakeholders, building consensus where interests diverge and making the final call when consensus isn't reached.

Feature Definition & Product Requirements

Define and document detailed product, feature and technical requirements, acceptance criteria, and success measures in partnership with UX, architecture, and engineering.

Own and continuously groom the product backlog and roadmap, ensuring features are sequenced by business value, dependency, and delivery feasibility.

Partner with Solution Architecture and Engineering to ensure feature designs are technically sound, scalable, and compliant with Pfizer's technology standards.

Product Lifecycle Management: Ideation to Scale

Lead products through the full lifecycle, discovery, experimentation, pilot, MVP, enterprise scale, and sustained operation, applying the appropriate governance rigor at each stage.

Define and track adoption, business value, and ROI metrics post-launch; use these to inform roadmap iteration and investment decisions.

Manage risk, compliance, and change-control considerations specific to Medical Affairs (data privacy, MLR/regulatory review, EU AI Act, HTA implications) throughout the product lifecycle.

Cross-Functional & Team Leadership

Direct the work of Product Managers, Engineers, UX Designers, and Program Delivery Leads supporting the product, without requiring formal reporting authority.

Represent the product in portfolio governance forums, providing status, risk, and prioritization recommendations to senior leadership.

Mentor and develop product talent within the broader Medical AI Acceleration and Delivery team.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.

12+ years of progressive experience in product management/product ownership, with at least 4-5 years operating at a senior/director level owning products end-to-end.

Demonstrated experience translating enterprise or life-sciences business strategy into product roadmaps and requirements at scale.

Demonstrated experience translating business needs into AI based technical solutions that have successfully scaled globally.

Proven track record managing senior (VP/SVP-level) stakeholder relationships and driving prioritization decisions across competing interests.

Experience with agile/iterative delivery frameworks (SAFe, Scrum, or equivalent) and modern product management practice (discovery, experimentation, MVP, outcome-based roadmapping).

Pharmaceutical, life sciences, or other regulated-industry experience strongly preferred; Medical Affairs domain knowledge a significant plus.

Experience with AI/ML-enabled products and an understanding of responsible AI, data governance, and emerging AI regulation (e.g., EU AI Act) preferred.

Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Non-Standard Work Schedule, Travel, or Environment Requirements

Must be able to travel to Pfizer offices, vendor offices, and other team meeting locations when required.

Project work can sometimes be demanding and require work during off-hours to coordinate with global stakeholders.

Other Job Details:

Last Date to Apply for Job: September 16th, 2026

Locations: NYHQ or PA-Collegeville

NOT Eligible for Relocation Package

Position is hybrid and will require to work 2 to 3 days per week site

#LI-PFE

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $214,900.00 to $358,100.00. In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 22.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program. We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com). Pfizer compensation structures and benefit packages are aligned based on the location of hire. The United States salary range provided does not apply to Tampa, FL or any location outside of the United States.


This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.



Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

Sunshine Act

Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations.  These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care provider’s name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure.  Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act.  Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government.  If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.

EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status.  Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.  This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.

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Job details

Seniority
Senior Director
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
New York City, United States
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 54 comparable Senior Director Information Technology roles across 21 biopharma companies.

54Comparable roles tracked
47Currently active
21Companies hiring similar roles
6Countries represented

Salary context

24 of 54 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $214,900/yr – $358,100/yr
Lowest disclosed · Director, Information Security Governance Risk Compliance · Mylan Inc. $112,000/yr – $236,000/yr
Peer group range $174,000 – $400,000 (median $258,336)

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