Digital Biomarker Innovation Technical Lead

The Clinical Innovation team at Sanofi is responsible foridentifying, accelerating, and scaling innovations that can serve to improve operations and/or outcomes for patients, sites, and sponsors of clinical trials. The Clinical Innovation team includes our digital biomarker (DBM) team which focuses on establishing and executing digital biomarker programs that generate health-related data through digital health technologies (DHTs), provide valuable insights into patients' conditions, and aid in improving the clinical trial experience. The DBM Innovation Lab is the newest capability within the team, established to accelerate adoption of DBMs as trial endpoints, and maximize probability of success for implementation.

In this role, you will design and lead early data generation and device evaluation programs to foster high-confidence, high-value DBM implementation in Sanofi trials.This position is ideal for someone with strong technical skills, hands-on laboratory or experimental experience, and passion for applying digital technologies to healthcare challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Combine your technical expertise with cross-functional collaboration skills to lead study design, execution, data analysis, and insight generation

• Manage end-to-end development of proof-of-concept studies that test devices, explore new measures, and generate novel datasets for analysis

• Work with the broader DBM team and cross-functional experts (e.g., biostatistics, data science) to translate research questions into practical, "minimum viable product" experiments that inform technology selection and implementation

• Help establish the DBM Innovation Lab (“iLab”) as an efficient, high-performing function that accelerates the adoption of digital technologies in clinical trials

Key Activities

• Engage with clinical and trial operations teams to understand unmet needs, workflows and pain points, gathering feedback to improve DBM usability and adoption

• Develop project plans and tracking systems, coordinating cross-functional working groups to deliver successful technology evaluations

• Create practical approaches for testing research questions in resource-efficient settings, with key emphasis on technical feasibility and data quality

• Support protocol development with emphasis on technical specifications, data collection procedures, and quality control measures

• Partner with data scientists and biostatisticians to design appropriate data management workflows and analysis approaches for digital biomarker evaluation

• Build direct relationships with technology vendors to source, configure, and troubleshoot devices required for studies

• Serve as hands-on technical lead for study implementation, monitoring performance metrics and implementing technical improvements

• Present findings to internal teams with clear explanations of technical concepts, data quality, and operational considerations

• Contribute to the DBM iLab roadmap by assessing technical feasibility, integration requirements, and implementation challenges

• Support user testing initiatives by implementing technical solutions that capture user experience data effectively

• Manage the DBM solution portfolio and loaner device program / relationships

• Maintain cutting-edge knowledgeof the digital biomarker landscape through technical forums, product demonstrations, and industry conferences

• Build knowledge of data structures, APIs, and technical solutions that enable effective integration of digital measures

• Develop processes, operating practices and infrastructure to accelerate and sustain DBM iLab efforts. Support/create educational webinars and presentations to help establish a knowledge base of digital health technologies and digital endpoints within Sanofi

• Establish connections within the digital health technical community through participation in standards development, technical working groups, and industry forums

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in biomedical engineering, data science, computer science or healthcare-relevant field; with 5-7 years of relevant experience in pharma or medical device industry

• Familiarity with digital technology and health care innovation

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with technical teams to deliver scalable, user-centered solutions; as well as high-quality qualitative and quantitative analysis

• Able to identify data or analytical issues, and provide solutions by either applying own skills and knowledge or seeking help from others

• Willing to learn new subject matter and technology, open-minded and adapting for improvement, enthusiastic about innovation and a self-starter to make possibilities real

• Proven ability to collaborate and influence across functions in a highly matrixed organization 

• Strongability to communicate (verbal, written, slides) clearly across technical and non-technical teams

• Self-motivated, organized, can-do attitude, collaborative, open-minded, excellent time-management

• High standardsforuser experience, not limited to evaluation of DBMs in the participant and trial context, but also for internal studies and collaborative workshops

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with clinical trial operations and / or digital transformation in R&D

• Basic technical fluency in data systems, APIs, or machine learning concepts

• Basic fluency in analytics / statistical methods and software including SQL, Python, R, SAS, etc.

• Experience conducting user research or usability testing in a regulated or complex domain

• Product management experience

• Agile or continuous improvement experience

• MBA or consulting experience