Director, Development AI Workflow Transformation Lead

Why Join Us?

Be a hero for our rare disease patients

At Ultragenyx, we fundamentally believe that taking real impactful action to care for the needs of patients and our people is always the right thing to do. To achieve this goal, our vision is to lead the future of rare disease medicine. For us, this means going where other biopharma companies won’t go – challenging the status quo and creating a new model that advances our field so more patients and caregivers can benefit from life-changing treatments. We do this by following the science, applying a novel rapid development approach, making innovative medicines at fair and reasonable prices, and creating a collaborative ecosystem to reach patients in ways that are most meaningful for them.

Our commitment and care for patients extends to our people, so culture is an essential cornerstone for Ultragenyx. We remain continuously focused on creating a supportive and inclusive environment of profound learning and growth – so employees can thrive in all areas of their lives, in and outside of work. Ultimately, we want to be an organization where we would be proud for our family, friends and children to work.

If you want to have a meaningful impact, do the best work of your career, and grow a lot, both professionally and personally, come join our team.

Position Summary

ultrainnovative – Tackle rare and dynamic challenges

The Director, AI Workflow Transformation Lead is Development’s subject-matter expert on our drug-development lifecycle workflows, responsible for identifying where AI and automation can create the greatest value and redesigning processes to embed those solutions effectively. Reporting to the Senior Director, Development AI Program Management, this role translates deep operational and workflow knowledge into clear opportunities and requirements, partnering with IT to ensure solutions are scalable, compliant, and aligned to business needs. They lead process redesign end-to-end—mapping current-state workflows, defining future-state, and re-engineering how work gets done so AI is adopted, not just deployed. This is a hands-on transformation leadership role at the intersection of Development expertise, process excellence, and enterprise AI.

Work Model

Remote: Officially documented as working full-time from home, with travel to Ultragenyx's offices or other locations on occasion as needed.

Responsibilities

• Workflow expertise. Serve as the Development authority on end-to-end Development lifecycle workflows including mapping our current-state processes, pain points, hand-offs, and value drivers across functions.
• AI opportunity identification. Systematically evaluate workflows to identify and qualify high-value opportunities for AI and automation, building the case for where and how solutions should be applied.
• Process redesign. Re-engineer and redesign workflows to embed AI effectively, optimizing, standardizing, and simplifying processes so solutions deliver real...