Senior Creative Technologist - Evinova

Job Title: Senior Creative Technologist - Evinova
Location: Gaithersburg, MD

At AstraZeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions knowledge-sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions and even the globe. 

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging face-to-face in our offices 3 days a week. Our head is purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm and connect on key projects. 

Are you ready to be part of the future of healthcare? Can you think big, be bold, and harness the power of digital and AI to tackle longstanding life sciences challenges?  Then Evinova, a global health tech business might be for you!  

Transform patients’ lives through technology, data, and innovative ways of working. You’re disruptive, decisive, and transformative. Someone excited to use technology to improve patients’ health. We’re building a new Health-tech business – Evinova, a fully-owned subsidiary of AstraZeneca Group.

Evinova delivers market-leading digital health solutions that are science-based, evidence-led, and human experience-driven. Thoughtful risks and quick decisions come together to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector. Be part of a diverse team that pushes the boundaries of science by digitally empowering a deeper understanding of the patients we’re helping. Launch pioneering digital solutions that improve the patients’ experience and deliver better health outcomes. Together, we have the opportunity to combine deep scientific expertise with digital and artificial intelligence to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards across the sector. 

Introduction to Role:

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Creative Technologist with an engineering background who excels at rapidly prototyping and testing AI, web-based, and other concepts. Your primary responsibility will be turning business challenges into minimal, experimental technical solutions that can validate or invalidate hypotheses within exceptionally short timeframes. This role requires someone who can build quickly, test effectively, analyze results objectively, and make clear recommendations about whether to pivot, persevere, or abandon concepts. You'll need to balance creativity with practicality, building just enough to learn while resisting the urge to perfect unproven ideas. Success in this role means developing numerous prototypes, most of which will fail—but failing quickly and inexpensively to discover the few breakthroughs worth pursuing further.

Accountabilities:

We value speed of learning over perfection of execution in our prototyping work. We're looking for someone who can build quickly, test thoroughly, and—most importantly—make clear, unbiased determinations about which technological approaches deserve further investment. The ideal candidate finds satisfaction in the process of discovery itself, understanding that a well-documented failed prototype often provides more business value than a polished implementation of an unproven concept. We encourage applications from individuals who have demonstrated the ability to balance creative exploration with pragmatic evaluation.

• Quickly create code and/or no-code prototypes to test solutions, often completing initial versions in days rather than weeks.
• Stay on top of emerging technologies and trends to strategically incorporate into new business solutions, with a particular emphasis on practical application of AI.
• Design and implement tests to validate key assumptions behind each prototype.
• Make clear recommendations about which prototypes to invest in or abandon.
• Balance speed with quality for valid testing results without extra polish.
• Implement front-end experiences with basic functionality for concept testing.
• Develop modular prototypes that can be easily modified based on feedback.
• Document insights from experiments to build organizational knowledge.
• Communicate technical concepts and results to non-technical stakeholders.
• Train team members in prototyping methods and evaluation techniques.
• Establish metrics to objectively determine prototype success or failure.
• Utilize technology only when it serves a clear purpose.
• Building, sharing, and using design components and libraries (design libraries, design systems) for rapid prototyping
• Helping the company get better at rapidly testing ideas by creating frameworks, design kits, testing playbooks, etc.
• The ability to move between projects quickly, adjusting to shifting needs, timing, and goals.
• Helping to ensure product teams are discovering and aligning solutions to the needs of patients, partners, and providers
• Building domain knowledge by aligning with the business and developing a deep understanding of how ‘it’ works (for individuals, at AstraZeneca, and in the industry)
• Help teams be divergent, think deeply, address underlying corollaries and causes, and become comfortable with ambiguity
• Embedding a sense of empathy and connection across the team for who they’re building for (and why they’re building it)
• Guiding teams to think further into the future and actively propose new areas of opportunity (what aren’t they thinking about that they should be?)
• Passionate about exploring new technologies and tools for rapid prototyping
• Building solutions, not just screens (a solution could be a new process, tool, input, bot, or other medium)

Essential Skills/Experience:

• High school or GED
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Front-End Engineering or Product Design
• Rapid web-based prototype development with quick turnaround examples.
• Comfort with AI coding tools.
• Knowledge of emerging AI Engineering techniques, trends, and best practices.
• Able to take big ideas and break them down into testable bite-sized chunks.
• Expert knowledge of web technologies and advanced skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte).
• Expert knowledge of git.
• Broad interest and ability to work across a variety of technologies including web, mobile, IoT, AR/VR among others.
• Experience in prototype testing, evaluation, and defining success metrics.
• Extensive experience with user interface design patterns and standard UCD methodologies across multiple platforms
• Ability to make evidence-based decisions on technical approaches.
• Familiarity with tools and processes that accelerate prototyping.
• Portfolio showing various experimental approaches and iterations.
• Proficient in "throwaway code" without over-engineering early concepts.
• Knowledge of no-code/low-code tools and when to use them effectively.
• Excellent communication to explain technical decisions and results.
• Access to rapid prototyping tools and testing platforms.
• Performance metrics based on insights generated rather than code produced.
• Experience of identification and implementation of innovative technology solutions
• Evidence of leading, developing, and delivering innovative solutions
• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Graduate level education in a related degree (HCI, UX, Computer Science, Engineering, etc)
• Rich experience in helping to discover and define technology solutions in both clinical and commercial settings
• Experience in the pharma or healthcare industry
• Experience working across diverse, global teams

Where can I find out more?

• Learn more about Evinova www.evinova.com
• Our Social Media, Follow AstraZeneca on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/1603/
• Follow AstraZeneca on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/astrazenecacareers/
• Follow AstraZeneca on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/astrazeneca_careers/?hl=en
• Our US Footprint: Powering Scientific Innovation - YouTube

Why Evinova?

Evinova is a global health tech business, separate company part of the AstraZeneca group. Together, we can accelerate the delivery of life-changing medicines, improve the design and delivery of clinical trials for better patient experiences and outcomes, and think more holistically about patient care before, during, and after treatment.  We know that regulators, healthcare professionals, and care teams at clinical trial sites do not want a fragmented approach. They do not want a future where every pharmaceutical company provides its own, different digital solutions. They want solutions that work across the sector, simplify their workload, and benefit patients broadly. By bringing our solutions to the wider life sciences community, we can help build more unified approaches to how we all develop and deploy digital technologies, better serving our teams, physicians, and ultimately patients.  Evinova represents a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful outcomes with digital and AI to serve the wider healthcare community and create new standards for the sector.  Join us on our journey of building a new kind of health tech business to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting-edge methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $156,047.20 to $234,070.80. Hourly and salaried non-exempt employees will also be paid overtime pay when working qualifying overtime hours. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.  In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program (salaried roles), to receive a retirement contribution (hourly roles), and commission payment eligibility (sales roles). Benefits offered included a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. 

AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace that is free from discrimination. AstraZeneca is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com.

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.