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Senior Director, Scientific Data Strategy & Governance - Princeton, NJ or Lexington, MA

DSM

DSM

Medical and Nutritional Science

Princeton, NJ - USA

Manager / Team Leader

Experteer Overview

In this Senior Director role, you will lead a multidisciplinary data team to define, operationalize, and scale a scientific data strategy that enables AI, analytics, and discovery across research, development, and production contexts. You will own the end-to-end data operating model—governance, strategy, modeling, privacy, and sharing—to ensure trusted, compliant, and interoperable data. You’ll bridge Science & Research with Digital & Technology to translate scientific needs into scalable data capabilities. This is a high-impact, strategic position shaping how data supports innovation, collaboration, and responsible use across the organization.

Compensation / Benefits

  • annual incentive pay
  • retirement savings plan
  • health care coverage
  • paid time off
  • recognition programs
  • broad range of other benefits

Responsibilities

  • Define and deliver reusable, AI-ready scientific data products that enable discovery, modeling, and decision-making across domains
  • Establish and operate a scientific data governance framework covering ownership, quality, metadata, lineage, access, and lifecycle management
  • Own conceptual, logical, and physical data models; maintain canonical standards, ontologies, and semantic models for interoperability and AI consumption
  • Define and execute the scientific data strategy spanning internal and external data sources while embedding privacy-by-design and security
  • Partner with legal, compliance, security, and privacy to operationalize privacy-by-design; establish de-identification and consent-aware usage for compliant secondary use
  • Foster cross-functional collaboration with Science & Research, Business Innovation, and Digital & Tech teams to drive value

Key requirements

  • Minimum 15 years of relevant post-graduate work experience with at least 10 years in life sciences
  • Proven leadership of large, possibly global teams (8+ members)
  • Track record defining and operationalizing data strategies, architecture, or scientific data platforms
  • Deep expertise in data standards and ontologies (CDISC, STDM, ADaM, CDM, SEND) and data modeling
  • Experience with diverse, multi-modal data from chemical/biotech manufacturing, drug discovery, development, or clinical studies
  • Bachelor/Master/PhD level in a relevant field; PhD a strong plus

Description

In this Senior Director role, you will lead a multidisciplinary data team to define, operationalize, and scale a scientific data strategy th…
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