About This Role

At Biogen Digital Health (BDH), we aspire to transform patients’ lives by making personalized & digital medicine in neuroscience a reality. Leveraging data-science and digital technologies, we drive solutions to advance research, clinical care, and patient empowerment.

Our team at Biogen Digital Health rejects the status quo and lives by agile principles. We strive for impact through excellence, innovation, and collaboration. We bravely go where others won’t. Our people are interdisciplinary, passionate, and champion caring deeply, working fearlessly, and changing lives.

What You'll Do

Reporting to the Head of Mental Health and Cognitive Health Science, you will be a thought leader advancing precision and personalized medicine for people living with Mental Health conditions according to the following mission statements:

• Lead development, validation, and drive strategic integration across clinical development and medical evidence generation of digital health technologies (DHT) to yield more objective, precise, and ecological measures of the course of depression and other mental health conditions
• Ensure clinical leadership of all R&D and Medical studies enabling digital measurement development and validation
• Provide clinical leadership to analytical modelling steps of feature engineering and disease score development approaches that will be necessary to turn digital outcome measurements into individualized predictive, diagnostic and monitoring solutions supporting research and clinical care
• Provide scientific and clinical leadership to external partnerships and investments in the field of Digital Health in Mental Health

This role will be a subject matter expert leader internally to drive acceleration of digital health in partnership with key R&D functions (Clinical Sciences, Global Clinical Operations, relevant development and research units) and Worldwide Medical (Health Outcomes Research, Global Therapeutic Area teams etc.).

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  MD PhD or PharmD degree with five years or more in Pharma/Biotech industry experience. Extensive leadership experience in Pharma/Biotech consultancy or academic/clinical centers of excellence will also be considered
• Intrinsic passion for advancing human disease understanding and transforming healthcare using digital technologies
• Extensive expertise in the field of Psychiatry/Mental Health
• Experience in digital health in neurology is a plus
• Proven stakeholder management skills with ability to communicate clearly and concisely across technology and the business teams
• Solution driven and huge capacity to deliver and execute complex programs/projects
• Proven ability to define a set of requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify technical and business changes required to address them.
• An entrepreneurial spirit and creativity that sparks your capacity for building and growing business - we love seeing those side projects and design experiments
• Experience in managing digital and medical devices programs

The role of Principal Scientist for Mental Health in BDH Science will be a thought leader advancing precision and personalized medicine for people living with Mental Health conditions. This role will be a subject matter expert leader internally to drive acceleration of digital health in partnership with key R&D functions (Clinical Sciences, Global Clinical Operations, relevant development and research units) and Worldwide Medical (Health Outcomes Research, Global Therapeutic Area teams etc.).

We stand with our colleagues at Biogen developing pioneering treatments in neuroscience. We believe that now, more than ever, biology and technology should go hand-in-hand to better meet patient needs, while enabling a shift towards more prevention-focused, affordable, and equitable care.