01Responsibilities
NOVA Rollout & Operational Execution (50%)
Own NOVA's rollout and operational execution across the four organizations, establishing it as the route through which enterprise AI work is shaped, prioritized, built and scaled. Partner with senior leaders to shape AI submissions against the enterprise bar for scalability value hypothesis, data readiness, architecture, cost-to-scale and path to production reshaping what's unready and redirecting, consolidating or stopping what cannot clear it, so work reaches governed production rather than stalling as a proof of concept.Maintain the governance that makes speed safe (risk tiering, decision gates, responsible-AI standards, model and agent oversight), and raise the AI fluency of the leaders you advise so they sponsor AI work with realistic expectations of cost, risk and value.Own the value framework and KPIs that hold the NOVA portfolio accountable to realized impact, and help lead the organizational change, culture and talent development.
Drive Next-Generation Frontier & Cross-Functional Programs (40%)
Lead the cross-functional AI initiatives that span organizational boundaries, have no natural single owner, and will not succeed without senior technical leadership.Drive frontier programs from concept to a defensible path to deployment: define the technical thesis, pressure-test feasibility, sequence milestones and secure cross-functional investment.Advance Lilly's agentic mission multi-agent architectures, orchestration, tool use, evaluation and human-in-the-loop design and resolve the architectural, data and operating-model dependencies that block scale, working across Tech@Lilly, legal, compliance and privacy.
Assess the External Environment and Accelerate External Innovation (10%)
Maintain a rigorous, current read of the external AI landscape models, agents, tooling and applied practice within and beyond life sciences and route it back through NOVA in actionable form that shapes live submissions, architecture choices and .
