About This Role

At Biogen Digital Health (BDH), we aspire to transform Biogen and patients’ lives by making personalized & digital medicine in neuroscience a reality. Powered by data-science and digital technologies, we drive solutions to advance research, clinical care, and patient empowerment. Our team strives for real impact through excellence, innovation, and collaboration.

You will serve as BDH’s key strategic partner for MS R&D functions with a focus particularly on clinical development applications of digital solutions. Reporting to the Head of MS and Neuromuscular Disorders Science Unit in BDH, you will develop, validate, and drive strategic integration of digital health technologies (DHT) in clinical trials to yield more objective, precise, and ecological measures of MS disease course.  

What You’ll Do

• Identify measurement gaps and potential digital measurement solutions in support of the broader MS R&D aims
• Collaborate with R&D for clinical trial planning and execution involving digital solutions
• Conduct digital solution research, validation, and regulatory engagements to support novel MS therapeutic development
• Become an expert in the science of MS disease measurement and digital solutions to ensure BDH science initiatives remain at the cutting edge of the field
• Partner with statisticians and data scientists to develop evidence generation plans in support of measurement validation. 
• Identify evidence generation gaps and propose agile and effective solutions
• Establish effective working relationships with external thought leaders to bridge science innovations with digital solutions
• Publish scientific research on digital solutions advancing the measurement of MS disease in peer-reviewed manuscripts
• Represent the MS expertise of the BDH organization across internal BDH teams at all levels and externally
• Provide scientific insights to inform novel digital therapeutic and digital measurement solutions partnerships 

Who You Are

You combine strategic thinking and scientific rigor with exceptional execution, and you strive for excellence in all that you do. You are passionately committed to making a difference in patients’ lives, and you foster a culture of trust and empowerment that encourages openness, ideation, failing forward, and experimentation. You think big, start small, scale fast, and you know that magic happens through diversity of thought, expertise, culture, and background.

Required Education/Skills

• MD or PhD or PharmD    
• 8-12 years in Pharma/Biotech industry preferably with research and development experience, alternatively leadership experience in academic/clinical centers of excellence
• Preferred: Extensive expertise in the field of MS and neuroimmunology
• Preferred: Experience in digital health/technology in neurology 
• Experience driving data generation execution
• Intrinsic passion for advancing MS disease understanding and transforming healthcare using digital technologies

Why Biogen Digital Health?

You will join an international, diverse team of 100+ talented humans who are passionate about making our vision a reality. Our team at Biogen Digital Health rejects the status quo and lives by agile principles. You’ll work directly with an outstanding team of neuroscientists, clinicians, data scientists, biostatisticians, digital product managers, user experience designers, and engineers that work across disciplines to make a lasting impact for patients.