Senior Director, Head of Artificial Intelligence

Location of role: Gaithersburg, MD, Conshohocken, PA or Oxford, UK

Department: Information Technology

Key Responsibilities:

• The Senior Director, Head of Artificial Intelligence is the accountable leader for AI at Immunocore.
• The role owns the enterprise AI strategy, roadmap, operating model, vendor strategy, and value realization across the company, and leads a small team.
• The mandate is to build a practical, governed enterprise AI capability: near-term agentic automation of repeatable employee tasks on AWS, broad and safe employee adoption of AI, and readiness for longer-term scientific, clinical, and commercial AI opportunities.
• This is a player-coach role.
• The successful candidate combines business transformation leadership with sufficient hands-on technical depth to credibly challenge implementation partners, AWS, and internal engineering decisions.
• They will lead the partner-supported build of the AWS agentic platform (Amazon Bedrock / AgentCore) and are accountable for full handover of capability to the internal team, avoiding permanent partner dependency.
• The role partners closely with IT Compliance, Legal, Security, Infrastructure, Data, and business functions, and owns executive communication, steering committee reporting, and investment cases.
• It also carries the scientific and healthcare AI agenda: evaluating foundation-model, research informatics, clinical, and commercial AI opportunities.
• Define and maintain the boundary between what the AI team owns and what is coordinated through Infrastructure, Security, IT Compliance, Legal, and Data teams.
• Stay abreast of AI, agentic automation, and life-sciences AI trends; build external relationships with partners, vendors, and academia.

Education, Experience and Knowledge:

Essential Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, computational or life sciences, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Typically requires 15+ years of related experience, including several years leading AI, data, or digital teams and delivering AI solutions into production.
• Demonstrated ownership of an enterprise AI (or comparable technology) strategy, communicated credibly at executive level.
• Sufficient hands-on technical depth in LLM applications, cloud AI platforms, and agentic patterns to challenge vendor and internal architecture decisions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in life sciences, biotech, or pharma, or other regulated environments.
• Experience with AWS AI services (Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore) and governed data platforms such as Snowflake.
• MBA or equivalent commercial experience.
• Experience able to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and reconcile multiple senior stakeholder views to drive results.

About the Company:

Immunocore (NASDAQ: IMCR) is a pioneering, commercial-stage T cell receptor biotechnology company whose purpose is to develop and commercialize a new generation of transformative medicines which address unmet patient needs in oncology, infectious diseases and autoimmune disease. Our leaders in R it embodies our shared identity and drives our mission. We are dedicated to developing breakthrough therapies that transform patients’ lives, advancing medicine, and supporting one another in these pursuits. Immunocore is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As such, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.