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About the Role

The Director of Product for Applied Research Intelligence (ARI) is a senior product leader responsible for the outward-facing product strategy for Wiley's newest growth business, which provides decision-grade intelligence to R&D teams. This role involves leading partnerships, shaping product adoption, and translating R&D scientist workflows into product direction, customer wins, and partnership investments. It offers high autonomy and significant opportunity for growth within an established global organization.

Responsibilities

Operate as a senior product leader and a peer to commercial, partnership, and engineering leaders, leading through influence across functions.
Serve as a key external interface for the product with customers, design partners, and integration and technology partners.
Represent ARI at industry and partner forums.
Shape product direction, partnership strategy, and commercial positioning as ARI establishes and grows its market presence.
Build and lead an expanding product function as the business grows.
Own ARI's outward-facing product strategy and value proposition, defining a clear, differentiated market point of view.
Frame how Wiley's trusted content and intelligence are positioned to customers and partners.
Demonstrate value through real customer engagement.
Lead the partnership and integration ecosystem, identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing integration and technology partners.
Shape build/buy/partner decisions and own the partnership and integration roadmap.
Drive early customer wins and adoption by working hands-on with sales, services, and customers.
Build a repeatable land-and-expand motion.
Be the voice of the corporate R&D customer, translating customer and market insight into product, enrichment, and roadmap priorities.
Feed competitive intelligence back to product, data science, and engineering.
Shape commercial pipeline through senior product influence, providing expert product framing to high-value customer and partner conversations.
Move relationships from content licensing toward strategic intelligence partnership.
Support premium positioning.
Represent ARI externally with authority as a credible, senior face for the product.
Operate effectively at C-suite and equivalent levels.
Build and scale the product function, developing the team, ways of working, and product strategy.

Requirements

First-hand experience working within corporate R&D in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life-sciences organizations, on or alongside research teams, working with scientific data and intelligence, combined with a demonstrated product mindset.
A track record of generating insight and intelligence from scientific literature and data across the R&D value chain.
10+ years of progressive experience in senior product, data-science, or scientific-innovation leadership roles, including senior-level and zero-to-one/new-market work.
Taking products, tools, or decision systems from concept to launch as a hands-on builder and implementer, with direct, first-hand exposure to pharmaceutical or life-sciences R&D.
Hands-on experience implementing GenAI and retrieval-based (RAG) solutions in a scientific or R&D context, as a proven implementer who has shipped production tools.
Working familiarity across knowledge graphs, agentic AI, and APIs/integrations.
Deep understanding of R&D scientists and their buyers, with the gravitas and credibility to hold authoritative conversations at senior and C-suite levels, internally and externally.
A trusted advisor and cross-functional integrator who connects R&D, data/IT, and commercial functions.
Strong commercial instinct, with a track record of using product and market insight to shape deals, partnerships, and roadmap decisions.
A proactive, go-getter operating style, highly comfortable with ambiguity and autonomy in a scale-up where the product and commercial motion is still being defined.
Exceptional written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate across scientific, technical, commercial, and executive audiences.
Willingness and ability to travel approximately 20%, primarily for customer and partner engagement, industry conferences, and team gatherings.
Advanced degree (PhD or MS) in a life-sciences, neuroscience, or related scientific discipline, ideally paired with strong technical or computational fluency; equivalent experience will be considered.
Depth in a therapeutic area where Wiley is strong, for example neuroscience and Alzheimer's, or oncology.
Experience with scientific and competitive intelligence, IP/patent-landscape analysis, or FAIR data practices.
Experience building, buying, or partnering to deliver scientific data or AI products.
Background in partnerships/business development, solutions, or technical pre-sales.
An established network across pharma/biotech R&D and the life-sciences data ecosystem.
Experience in a new business unit or scale-up where a product and commercial motion was established for the first time.

Skills

Product Strategy
Partnership Leadership
Integration Ecosystem Development
Customer Engagement
Market Positioning
R&D Workflows
GenAI Implementation
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Knowledge Graphs
Agentic AI
APIs/Integrations
Scientific Data Analysis
Commercial Instinct
Cross-functional Integration
Communication (Written and Verbal)
Scientific and Competitive Intelligence
IP/Patent Landscape Analysis
FAIR Data Practices
Business Development
Technical Pre-sales

Location

United Kingdom
Canada
USA
Austria
Czechia
Denmark
France
Greece
Italy
Netherlands
Romania
Spain

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior-level
10+ years of progressive experience

Education Level

Advanced degree (PhD or MS) in a life-sciences, neuroscience, or related scientific discipline, ideally paired with strong technical or computational fluency; equivalent experience will be considered.

Salary/Compensations

145,200.00 USD to 212,800.00 USD

Benefits

Continual learning and internal mobility
Meeting-free Friday afternoons
Robust employee programming
Comprehensive benefits package

About the Company

For more than 200 years, Wiley has transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world.
The global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing—creating impact that reaches everywhere.
Wiley accelerates scientific breakthroughs, advances learning, and sparks innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.
Wiley is a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for customers, colleagues, and society at large.

Equal Opportunity

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities.
Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact tasupport@wiley.com for assistance.