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Regeneron's Enterprise Data & AI organization is newly established and moving fast, built to drive AI transformation and adoption at scale across every part of the enterprise. This is a high-visibility, high-velocity position where the work is directly tied to business and scientific impact.
The VP of Enterprise Data & Information Management is the guardian of Regeneron's most differentiated AI asset: our data. This role ensures Regeneron's data advantage, anchored by Regeneron's proprietary scientific and clinical assets and external data partnerships, is structured, governed, and AI-ready at enterprise scale. This leader will ensure the integrity, accessibility, and governance of Regeneron's enterprise data assets and enterprise data products.
The VP of Enterprise Data & Information Management will build Regeneron's enterprise data program from the ground up and establish foundational data capabilities and governance structures. This leader will set and enforce enterprise data quality standards, policies, and compliance requirements; manage the enterprise data catalog, metadata infrastructure, and semantic layer; partner with business units to mature data as a foundational and differentiating capability for AI at scale; ensure compliant, GxP-ready data pipelines; and build the federated multimodal infrastructure that makes production-grade AI possible. Data must be not just available, but trustworthy, traceable, and ready for enterprise AI use.
This position reports to the SVP Chief AI Officer.
This leader owns the multi-year enterprise data strategy and holds executive accountability for it, including hiring and directing the Executive Director, Enterprise Data, who leads day-to-day governance and engineering execution against that strategy.
Core Responsibilities
Data Governance, Cataloging, MDM & Quality

• Sets the enterprise data quality standard and governance policy for Regeneron's data estate, and decides where the organization invests in master data management and cataloging capability to meet it.

• Holds executive accountability for data governance outcomes across the enterprise, arbitrating trade-offs when data quality priorities compete with delivery timelines across business units.

Enterprise Semantic Layer

• Sets the strategic direction and investment priority for the enterprise semantic layer, deciding which domains and data models are standardized centrally versus federated to business units.

• Holds enterprise accountability for semantic consistency as new AI capabilities and data products are introduced, resolving definitional conflicts that cross functional lines.

Business Glossary & Taxonomy

• Sets the enterprise standard and investment priority for Regeneron's business glossary and taxonomy program, determining which domains require centrally governed vocabulary.

Knowledge Graphs

• Sets the enterprise strategy and investment case for knowledge graph infrastructure, prioritizing which domains and use cases justify the build.

Federated Data Ecosystem

• Owns the enterprise architecture strategy for a federated, AI-ready data ecosystem, setting the standards that balance domain-owned data products against centralized governance and a graph-enabled semantic layer.

GxP-Compliant Data Standards

• Sets enterprise policy for GxP-compliant data standards and holds executive accountability for regulated data pipeline compliance across the data layer.

• Owns the executive relationship with Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and Legal leadership on GxP and data privacy requirements, escalating emerging regulatory risk to the SVP, Chief AI Officer.

Data Privacy & Security

• Sets enterprise policy and risk tolerance for data privacy and security across the data estate and holds executive accountability for Regeneron's data protection posture.

• Owns the executive relationship with the CISO organization and Legal on privacy-by-design strategy for data architecture and access patterns.

People & Organizational Leadership

• Builds, develops, and leads a multidisciplinary data organization spanning data governance, data engineering, metadata management, and data architecture, including hiring and directing the Executive Director, Enterprise Data, and setting the multi-year strategy the organization executes against.

• Sets the standard for how data infrastructure must be buildable, scalable, and maintainable at platform level, and owns the handoff model between data strategy and data engineering execution.

• Represents the enterprise data strategy and roadmap to executive leadership, holding ultimate accountability for the data foundation across Enterprise Data & AI. Partners with peers across Enterprise Data & AI to ensure the data foundation is integrated with AI delivery, governance, and enablement functions.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in a related field required.

• 20+ years leading enterprise data management, data governance, or data architecture organizations, with a demonstrated track record of building data foundations that enable AI and analytics at scale.

• Deep expertise in data governance frameworks, master data management, metadata management, and enterprise data quality, including experience establishing these disciplines from scratch in a complex enterprise.

• Hands-on architectural depth in federated data architecture, semantic layers, and multimodal data infrastructure. Able to operate as both strategist and technical leader.

• Experience with GxP data compliance in a regulated life sciences or biopharma environment strongly preferred. Understanding how data governance intersects with regulatory, clinical, and commercial data requirements.

• Deep familiarity with the current AI data landscape: vector databases, knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation, and modern data platforms that support enterprise AI workloads.

• Experience partnering with distributed engineering organizations. Successful experience governing data standards and architecture with a team in India or similar global delivery model is strongly preferred.

• Ability to communicate and influence effectively across Digital & Technology, business units, scientific functions, Legal, and Regulatory Affairs.

• Strong people leadership. Experience building and developing senior data engineering and governance talent in a competitive market.

Does this sound like you? Apply now to take your first step towards living the Regeneron Way! We are committed to building a workplace with an inclusive culture. Regeneron is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief (or lack thereof), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, civil status, pregnancy or parental status, age, disability, nationality, citizenship status, ethnic or national origin, membership of the Traveler community, familial status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Where required, we will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with known disabilities or chronic illnesses during the recruitment process, unless such accommodation would impose undue hardship.
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