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About the Role

The Sr. Manager, R&D AI Solutions & Analytics advances AI-enabled analytics and digital innovation across Research & Development. This role designs, develops, and scales analytics and AI solutions to strengthen decision-making, optimize clinical development operations, and deliver actionable portfolio insights. As a hands-on contributor, this individual partners with R&D leaders, Digital/IT teams, and external vendors to deliver scalable analytics products, dashboards, intelligent workflows, and AI-enabled capabilities that create measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

Design and deliver analytics and AI-enabled solutions for Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Portfolio Strategy, and R&D functions.
Develop and scale dashboards, operational metrics, and analytics products to improve clinical and operational performance visibility.
Support implementation and expansion of AI-powered use cases, including clinical operations copilots, enrollment analytics, workflow automation, and decision-support tools.
Identify and translate high-value R&D business opportunities into analytics and AI solutions with stakeholders.
Contribute to rapid prototyping, proof-of-concept development, and innovation initiatives aligned with R&D priorities.
Drive adoption and continuous improvement of analytics and AI solutions through performance measurement and user feedback.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, Business Analytics, or a related field.
6+ years of experience developing and operationalizing analytics or AI-enabled solutions in pharmaceutical, biotech, or regulated healthcare.
Hands-on experience building analytics data products, dashboards, and decision-support tools.
Experience in regulated R&D environments with familiarity with clinical, safety, or regulatory data.
Working knowledge of data standards such as CDISC and FHIR.
Experience applying analytics in R&D-intensive industries like biopharma, healthcare, or technology.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Skills

Data Science
Analytics
Computer Science
Engineering
Life Sciences
Business Analytics
AI-enabled solutions development
Analytics data products
Dashboards
Decision-support tools
Clinical data
Safety data
Regulatory data
CDISC
FHIR
AI-powered use cases
Rapid prototyping
Proof-of-concept development
Innovation initiatives

Location

San Diego, CA
Princeton, NJ
San Francisco, CA

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time
Travel required

Experience Level

Senior Manager
6+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

$134,000 - $167,000 USD

Benefits

Competitive base, bonus, new hire, and ongoing equity packages
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Employer-paid life coverage
Employer-paid disability coverage
Employer-paid business travel coverage
Employer-paid EAP coverage
401(k) Plan with 1:1 company match up to 5%
Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 2-year purchase price lock-in
15+ vacation days
13-15 paid holidays, including office closure between December 24th and January 1st
10 days of paid sick time
Paid parental leave benefit
Tuition assistance

About the Company

Acadia is committed to turning scientific promise into meaningful innovation for underserved neurological and rare disease communities.
Commercial portfolio includes FDA-approved treatments for Parkinson’s disease psychosis and Rett syndrome.
Developing therapeutic advancements with a robust pipeline, including mid- to late-stage programs in Alzheimer’s disease psychosis and Lewy body dementia psychosis.
Also developing earlier-stage programs addressing other underserved patient needs.

Equal Opportunity

Committed to building a diverse, equitable, inclusive, and innovative company; encourages applications from candidates with less traditional backgrounds.
Provides equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, gender transition, country of origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, medical condition, marital status, domestic partner status, family care status, military caregiver status, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, enrollment in a public assistance program, or any basis protected under federal, state or local law.
Committed to a diverse workforce; qualified individuals with a disability or disabled veterans have the right to request reasonable accommodation.
Accommodations can be requested for accessing the career website or throughout the interview process via the Reasonable Accommodation Request Form or by contacting talentacquisition@acadia-pharm.com or 858-261-2923.
Reasonable accommodations granted during recruiting are not guaranteed to be the same if hired; a new request is needed for ADA accommodations after starting employment.