The Principal AI Platforms Manager at Neurocrine Biosciences leads enterprise-wide initiatives for secure, scalable, and governed AI capabilities. This senior role combines technical leadership, product management, and strategic advisory responsibilities, partnering with Engineering, Data, Cybersecurity, Tech Enablement & Adoption, Compliance, and business stakeholders to architect platform strategy and orchestrate multi-team execution. The manager owns the AI/ML platforms’ lifecycle, evaluates emerging technologies, ensures alignment with Responsible AI principles, and drives enterprise adoption through onboarding and training. Key skills include experience in IT or related fields, particularly within regulated environments like pharmaceuticals, along with expertise in telemetry, observability, and platform governance models. This role addresses complex business needs by translating them into actionable technical roadmaps and driving long-term sustainability for advanced analytics and AI-powered applications across Neurocrine’s diverse therapeutic areas.
Owns strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for Neurocrine’s AI/ML platforms including model orchestration and performance monitoring.
Leads evaluation and integration of foundation models and third-party services to support enterprise AI use cases.
Develops Responsible AI governance framework and ensures compliance with regulatory requirements.
Drives end-to-end execution of AI initiatives across multi-team programs, ensuring alignment and delivery velocity.
Establishes and monitors KPIs for platform health, including business impact, quality of response, and usage patterns.
Partners with cross-functional teams to shape AI concepts into actionable initiatives and ensure consistent adoption.
What we're looking for
Over 10 years of experience in IT or related fields, preferably in pharmaceuticals or regulated environments.
Strong understanding of enterprise AI components including RAG pipelines, embedding services, LLM orchestration, prompt governance, and model performance monitoring.
Experience delivering automation frameworks, integration platforms, and reusable services with a focus on telemetry, observability, SLOs, and platform reliability practices.
Familiarity with data privacy, security requirements, and responsible AI concepts, including foundation models and vector databases.
Ability to define long-term platform roadmaps, measure KPIs, and drive complex multi-team initiatives in an Agile/Scrum environment.
Expertise in influencing stakeholders across engineering, data, cybersecurity, and business units without direct authority.
Market check
Salary context
This
$132,700–$182,000
range sits above
10%
of similar postings on FindRole.
Peer median band
$176,000–$262,400
Median floor and ceiling across peers.
Typical midpoint (25–75%)
$185,225–$246,150
Middle half of comparable postings.
Based on 239 comparable postings.*
* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.
Employer
About Neurocrine
Neurocrine Biosciences is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing treatments for neurological and endocrine-related conditions, including tardive dyskinesia, Parkinson''s disease, and endometriosis. Industry: Biopharmaceuticals & Neuroscience
Neurocrine currently has
8 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$103,300–$141,000
across 8 roles with salary data.