Job Description
The Associate Director, Regulatory Technology is accountable for translating Regulatory priorities into an actionable technology roadmap across Regulatory-owned platforms. The role owns demand intake, prioritization, release planning, and enhancement delivery; serves as the primary business liaison to Digital Technology and Engineering (DTE) teams; and advances Regulatory capabilities through AI, automation, and emerging technologies. Working across Regulatory, DTE, and business stakeholders, the Associate Director helps ensure technology investments are aligned, scalable, compliant, and positioned to deliver measurable business value.
Key Duties and Responsibilities :
Maintain the Regulatory Technology roadmap across Regulatory-owned platforms, aligning planned capabilities and investments with Regulatory priorities and the broader technology strategy.
Lead the end-to-end demand intake and prioritization process, partnering with business stakeholders to define needs, assess value, dependencies, risk, and readiness, and establish a transparent delivery sequence.
Drive release planning and enhancement delivery across the platform portfolio, coordinating scope, business requirements, timelines, testing readiness, communications, and adoption activities with product owners and delivery teams.
Serve as the primary Regulatory business liaison to DTE teams, translating business needs into clear technology requirements and facilitating timely decisions, issue resolution, and alignment across functions.
Establish and facilitate appropriate roadmap and portfolio governance, providing clear visibility to priorities, delivery status, risks, dependencies, decisions, and expected outcomes.
Drive innovation through AI, automation, and emerging technologies by identifying high-value opportunities, shaping pilots, defining success measures, and advancing viable concepts toward scalable solutions.
Partner with Regulatory process owners, data and technology teams, and end users to ensure solutions support compliant, efficient, and user-centered ways of working.
Monitor regulatory technology trends, industry practices, and evolving business needs to inform roadmap choices and recommend future capabilities.
Support change management and adoption by developing stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and feedback approaches appropriate to each release or initiative.
Communicate roadmap progress, delivery outcomes, risks, and recommendations to Regulatory leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Required Education Level
Bachelor's degree in life sciences, information technology, engineering, business, or a related field.
Required Experience
Typically requires 8 years of relevant experience in regulatory technology, regulatory operations, product management, business technology, or a related area within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
Demonstrated experience managing technology roadmaps, demand intake, prioritization, release planning, and enhancement delivery across a portfolio of business platforms.
Experience partnering with enterprise technology teams and cross-functional business stakeholders to deliver technology-enabled capabilities in a regulated environmen.
Experience evaluating or implementing AI, automation, or other emerging technologies, including pilots and scale-up planning.
Required Knowlede/Skills
Strong product and portfolio management capabilities, including roadmap development, demand management, prioritization, release planning, and value realization.
Working knowledge of Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Operations processes, data, content, and technology within the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry.
Strong technical expertise in Veeva Vault RIM and integrations across the Veeva suite, including Veeva Quality, Clinical, and PromoMats.
Ability to translate business needs into clear, outcome-focused requirements and to…