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The center brings together AI researchers, computational scientists, and platform engineers to apply foundation models, agentic AI, and large-scale scientific computing to real R&D problems. Situated in one of the world’s most dynamic AI talent markets, it operates at the intersection of biologics discovery, computational chemistry, and AI-driven drug discovery.\nThe center is structured around three pillars: Discovery verticals (therapeutic design and preclinical predictions), Data & AI Platforms, and Ecosystem Partnerships with leading Chinese academic institutions and AI companies. This role sits within the Data & AI Platforms pillar, with a mandate to bring the center’s Agentic AI platform to life for China R&D.\nAbout the Role\nThis role owns the Agentic AI platform for AstraZeneca’s China R&D organization. You are the single point of product accountability - from vision and roadmap through delivery and measured impact - for the platform that puts agentic AI capabilities in the hands of China R&D scientists and functions.\nYou connect demand to delivery. You partner with internal customers across China R&D to identify and frame the problems worth solving, translate them into a compelling product vision and a prioritized roadmap, and work with engineers, scientists, and platform teams to ship the right capabilities. You use data and evidence - not opinion - to drive prioritization and trade-off decisions, escalating when necessary without damaging relationships.\nYou operate at the seams of the organization. The platform only delivers value when it is wired into the broader ecosystem, so you will interface continuously with China R&D, Business Development (BD), and global functions including Enterprise AI - ensuring the China platform both leverages and contributes to AstraZeneca’s enterprise-wide AI strategy.\nYou will be most visible where the work is hardest. You will own the entire product lifecycle, represent the platform independently across organizations and technical levels, and personally drive the most ambiguous, cross-functional, or time-sensitive decisions from concept through production.\nWhat You Will Do\nProduct Vision & Roadmap (35%)\nConnect with internal customers across China R&D to identify, frame, and prioritize the problems the Agentic AI platform will solve \nCreate a compelling product vision and strategy for the Agentic AI platform that solves complex R&D business problems and aligns to China R&D and enterprise priorities \nOwn the product roadmap and blueprint - sequencing capabilities to ensure value delivery through well-scoped MVPs and prioritized use cases \nManage trade-off decisions between business opportunities and available resources, using data and evidence to drive prioritization \nAssess build, buy, and partner options for platform capabilities, evaluating partnership and technology opportunities for strategic fit and feasibility \nExecution & Delivery (40%)\nOwn the entire product lifecycle of the Agentic AI platform, working with engineers, scientists, and other stakeholders to deliver the right products \nDrive execution, implementation, and delivery of prioritized use cases from idea to production, following lean and agile principles \nTranslate requirements into delivery through clear requirements engineering, backlog ownership, and scrum-based ways of working \nMeasure and communicate impact - define success metrics for the platform and its use cases, instrument them, and use the results to refine the roadmap \nExplore and solicit innovative concepts and technologies with stakeholders, incorporating emerging agentic AI capabilities into the platform \nStakeholder Engagement & Communication (25%)\nInterface across China R&D, BD, and global functions including Enterprise AI - ensuring the China platform aligns with and contributes to AstraZeneca’s enterprise AI strategy \nIndependently represent the platform and the team, communicating comfortably across organizations and at varying technical levels \nEscalate when necessary to unblock delivery and reconcile business strategy with technical needs, without damaging relationships \nEvangelize the platform’s capabilities and accomplishments through targeted communications, celebration of achievements, and internal and external forums \nRequirements\nExperience\n8+ years in science-based technical product management, or equivalent experience in AI/ML development \nTrack record of developing strategic product ideas and plans, building technical proposals, and delivering product visions \nDemonstrated ability to drive an AI-based solution from idea to production \nExperience working in cross-functional or matrix environments, influencing across stakeholders \nSkills\nGood understanding of ML/AI/DL techniques, preferably with hands-on experience \nAbility to manage trade-off decisions between business opportunities and available resources \nStrong requirements engineering following lean and agile principles, with experience in scrum \nHighly collaborative, with strong stakeholder communication and management across technical and non-technical audiences \nAble to translate across communication gaps around highly technical information and lead diverse teams toward a common goal \nUnderstanding of R&D, data science and AI, informatics, records management, and system development in the biotech/pharma industry \nChina-Specific\nAbility to work in Shanghai or Beijing on-site \nMandarin fluency required \nExperience with data and AI regulations in China (e.g., PIPL, DSL, and cross-border data transfer requirements) is highly desirable \nFamiliarity with the Beijing talent and innovation ecosystem is an advantage \nMindset\nComfortable with ambiguity: the center and the platform are still being built and priorities will evolve \nBias to ownership: takes end-to-end accountability for the product and drives it without prompting \nPassion for learning new technologies and applying them to real scientific problems \nEnergized by leading and influencing across functions to deliver shared outcomes \nNice-to-Have\nExperience applying AI technologies to scientific or consumer products from idea to production \nExperience with AI data preparation techniques in bioinformatics, ML frameworks, and tooling \nKnowledge of (immune) oncology and drug development processes \nClinical, diagnostic, or translational science operations experience \nExperience driving innovation events (e.g., hackathons) toward novel solutions \nDate Posted\n11-8月-2026Closing Date\nAstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. 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