Senior / Principal Business Impact Lead – R&D (AI Solution Architect) - BCN/MAD/Munich

Years of experience: 5-7

Mission

Mission As an R&D Business Impact Lead, you act as the domain expert and solution architect for Aily App R&D modules. Your mission is to embed Aily App into core R&D routines across research, portfolio governance, clinical development, and pipeline strategy, enabling Fortune 500 companies to move faster from signal to scientific and portfolio action. You own the Aily.r&d client journey from first integration to enterprise-wide adoption, ensuring the product is fully deployed, trusted, and embedded into daily R&D decision-making to deliver measurable performance impact.

Your profile

What You Will Do Act as the R&D domain expert and solution architect for Aily App modules:

Internally: Translate R&D routines into product requirements and AI decision logic, refine model performance, and shape the product roadmap and future high-impact R&D use cases.

Externally: Drive client value realisation by leading deployments, guiding R&D data readiness, validating AI through portfolio and clinical leadership feedback, up-skilling R&D managers and executives, and accelerating time to value.

Your Responsibilities

R&D Solution Architecture

Translate research, portfolio governance, and clinical development routines into product requirements and AI decision logic

Define AI outcomes and R&D decision quality standards

Co-shape scalable product capabilities across research, portfolio, and clinical use cases

Partner with Product, ML, and Engineering on feasibility and R&D operational readiness

Define and own data requirements, data collection, and AI fine-tuning needs to accelerate deployment and time to value

Influence the product roadmap through client impact and adoption insights

R&D Authority in the Room

Act as the trusted R&D domain expert for clients and internal Product and AI teams

Be the trusted advisor to Chief R&D Officers, Heads of R&D, portfolio leaders, clinical operations heads, and innovation executives

Represent R&D user needs in product and roadmap discussions

Communicate AI and data topics, assumptions, and trade-offs in clear business language

Deployment, Adoption & Time-to-Value

Drive rollouts from entry-point use cases to enterprise-wide adoption

Own time to first active user and time to routine across R&D deployments

Upskill and evangelize R&D users through workshops, executive sessions, and engagement campaigns

Ensure AI becomes embedded into daily R&D governance, portfolio, and clinical decision-making cadences

About You

Must have

Bachelor, Master, PhD, or MBA degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Business, or a related field

Strong understanding of R&D decision-making in large enterprises, including portfolio governance and clinical development processes

5+/7+ years of experience in R&D strategy, pharmaceutical consulting, clinical operations, portfolio management, or innovation leadership roles

Exposure to R&D analytics, performance management, or digital transformation initiatives

Tech-savvy profile with fluency in data and AI concepts, including data requirements and model behavior, gained through close collaboration with product and data science teams

Proven experience working with Fortune 500 or large enterprise clients

Extreme ownership mindset, with accountability for outcomes, adoption, and time to value

Strong communication skills with senior R&D and executive stakeholders

Ability to operate autonomously in complex, multi-stakeholder environments

Strongly preferred

Background in tech consulting, solution architecture, or product-facing roles

Experience with AI-powered, analytics, or data-intensive R&D products

Exposure to enterprise SaaS environments

Experience mentoring, leading, or scaling small teams or domain practices

Experience working across global R&D organizations or multi-therapeutic portfolios teams

Why Aily?

Work at the intersection of AI and enterprise decision-making, shaping how Fortune 500 companies operate

Take real ownership of outcomes, from product design to measurable business impact

Partner directly with senior leaders and executive teams across global organizations

Be part of a high-performing, international team with strong product and AI DNA

Hybrid setup with 2–3 days per week in our Barcelona, Madrid, Munich or NYC office

Competitive compensation with performance-based rewards

Open feedback culture, continuous learning, and freedom to experiment

Regular team off-sites, global events, and a culture that values ambition, autonomy, and impact

Who are we?

About Aily Aily Labs is a fast-growing applied AI scale-up founded in 2020, with hubs in Munich, Barcelona, Madrid, New York City, and Cluj-Napoca. We build AI-powered products that help large enterprises make better decisions, faster. Our flagship AI mobile app delivers real-time, actionable business recommendations across core functions, breaking silos and embedding AI directly into daily business routines. We are the reference decision intelligence platform for AI-driven decision-making in large organizations.