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Req ID:
R011544
Location:
Philadelphia, PA - [Remote/Home-Based]
Category:
Information Technology
If you are a current Jazz employee please apply via the Internal Career site.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases — often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide.
At Jazz, we are reimagining how we design and deliver more precise customer experiences, enabled by new technologies, modern ways of working, and high performing team behaviors. Through this work, we enable teams to better understand patients, caregivers, and HCPs, anticipate their needs across the enterprise, deliver timely and personalized engagement, and orchestrate seamless, end-to-end experiences as One Jazz.
To power this ambition with both speed and scale, we are embracing a new product-oriented operating model, allowing business and technology teams to partner side by side in building, advancing, and delivering global capabilities across our enterprise. Cross-functional, empowered Global Capability teams own outcomes—not just outputs—and work from clear capability visions, strategies, and measurable goals. We prioritize user problems, validate solutions through experimentation and data, and iterate quickly to create real value for our users and the business. As part of this model, you’ll collaborate closely with users, stakeholders, and technical teams across the organization, using discovery and delivery practices to ensure we’re building the right things, in the right way, at the right time.
The Tech Lead, KOL & External Engagement Platforms, provides hands-on technical leadership and solution design expertise for the KOL & External Engagement Platforms Global Capability team within the Customer Operations function. Reporting to the Technical Suite Lead, this role serves as the primary technical leader for the capability, partnering closely with the Product Owner, Activation Lead, development teams, and/or vendor teams to ensure capability priorities and global standards.
The KOL & External Engagement Platforms team enables the planning, execution, and performance tracking of events, congresses, speaker programs, and broader engagement activities across KOLs, HCPs, patients, and caregivers. As the Tech Lead, this role is a hands-on contributor and technical leader, directly involved in designing, building, and delivering solutions for engagement and event management platforms alongside the development team, bringing technical depth and leadership to every stage of the work.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & Technical Roadmap Development
- Partner closely with the KOL & External Engagement Platforms Global Capability Owner to support the design of solutions that solve business problems, providing technical insight on what the technology can and cannot do, effort levels, and tradeoffs.
- Collaborate with the Customer Operations Technical Suite Lead and Architects to contribute to translating capability roadmaps into scalable technology architectures and development plans while assessing feasibility, constraints, dependencies, and risks.
- Convert complex business requirements into clear technical specifications and executable technical work tasks.
Solution Architecture & Technical Delivery
- Execute technical activities for the technical team and drive work plans, building, configuration, and integration of software aligned to business needs and technology standards, including:
- HCP EngageNow, Veeva Events Portal, and similar engagement platforms, enabling planning, coordination, and tracking of KOL, HCP, and patient engagement activities.
- Event and congress management platforms (e.g., SpotMe, Cadence), supporting execution and measurement of large-scale events and speaker programs.
- Integration frameworks, enabling connectivity between engagement platforms, CRM systems, analytics platforms, and compliance systems.
- Translate technical requirements into well-defined work for the development team, lead agile ceremonies, and ensure disciplined execution of the capability roadmap, taking ownership of complex technical challenges end to end.
- Coordinate development teams in integrating engagement platforms with upstream and downstream systems (e.g., CRM, web, analytics platforms).
- Ensure solutions meet compliance, auditability, and regulatory requirements for external engagement and healthcare interaction workflows.
- Reinforce standard engagement workflows across brands, markets, and channels.
- Enable automation and optimization of engagement processes to improve efficiency and user experience.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Partner with business, IT security, and vendor teams to ensure the KOL & External Engagement Platforms team technical solutions adhere to organizational standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Organize and direct vendor partners to execute technical work, ensuring alignment with capability priorities, delivery timelines, and enterprise standards.
- Partner with the Technical Suite Lead, Customer Operations, to escalate and resolve complex technical challenges that span across Global Capability teams.
- Mentor and guide software engineers and developers, elevating the team's overall technical capability.
- Lead cross-team problem solving and resolution of technical challenges within the Global Capability team.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Technical Skills
- Experience designing, testing, deploying, operating, and enhancing scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions for large scale organizational use.
- Understanding of enterprise software architecture, cloud platforms, and modern engineering frameworks. Knowledge of system integration patterns, APIs, and data architecture across enterprise technology platforms.
- Knowledge of KOL identification and engagement strategies, event execution workflows, HCP compliance and consent requirements, speaker program management and governance, and performance tracking frameworks.
- Ability to translate engagement strategies into durable, reusable data and platform capabilities. Experience managing vendor-heavy ecosystems, including roadmap alignment, integration standards, and delivery accountability. Ability to integrate engagement platforms with CRM, analytics, and data platforms for measurement and optimization.
- Strong understanding of event and engagement management platforms, KOL identification and engagement tools, and vendor-supported engagement solutions. Experience designing and integrating enterprise digital platforms such as Veeva Events Portal, SpotMe, Cadence, HCP EngageNow, IFI/MB4, and Patient Advocacy/Conference Engagement Tools.
- Preferred: Proven experience as a full-stack application builder for external-facing (customer / consumer) apps, with track record of partnering closely with business teams. Ability to design scalable KOL and external engagement capabilities beyond just integrating tools.
- Ability to partner with Global Capability Owners to translate executive and Franchise requirements into scalable, well-governed technology solutions with roadmaps and prioritization. Provide technical leadership on standardization, KPI implementation, and architectural trade-offs to ensure enterprise technology assets remain consistent, performant, and extensible across brands and regions.
- Experience leading mixed teams of internal developers and vendors, including technical direction, code and dashboard reviews, estimation, and delivery accountability. Proven ability to collaborate with UX researchers and UI designers, with user-centric mindset applied to technical development.
- Experience working within Agile product development teams and product operating models.
Business Skills
- Customer Journey Understanding – ability to see customer’s end-to-end experience clearly and use it on an ongoing basis for go to market strategic, tactical and measurement decisions, while anticipating needs across touchpoints. Make practical decisions that improve journey and outcomes.
- Digital-first Mindset— ability to look for opportunities to streamline and improve the customer experience and Jazz performance through digital tools, data and automation to create better, faster and more scalable outcomes.
- Cross functional Matrix Collaboration – ability to work fluidly across teams and reporting lines respecting SME, coordinating shared work, ensuring progress even when accountability is distributed – supporting decisions with professional alignment and focus on collective success. Deeply understands and values unique capabilities and perspectives of diverse functions.
- Critical Thinking - The ability to assess a range of inputs objectively, challenge assumptions with curiosity, and generate sound, forward-looking judgments that improve decisions.
- Adoption — ability to quickly embrace new tools, new WoW, and behaviors applying with confidence and practical improvement.
Required/Preferred Education and Licenses
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related technical field.
- 7+ years of experience after Bachelor's degree (or 5+ years of experience after Master's degree) in customer engagement, KOL management, event and congress operations, patient advocacy, or related domains in pharma, with expertise in engagement platforms, speaker programs, and compliant customer experience delivery across HCPs, patients, and caregivers.
- 2+ years of experience as a Tech Lead, Technical Program Manager, Engineering Manager, or other roles involving managing a team of developers.
- Expertise in engagement platforms, speaker programs, and compliant customer experience delivery across HCPs, patients, and caregivers.
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale digital platforms such as engagement platforms, event management systems, CRM-integrated solutions, or external interaction management systems.
- Experience working within complex, matrixed organizations with multiple technology and product teams.
- Proven ability to mentor and guide developers and vendor partners to deliver high-quality solutions.
Preferred / Additional Qualifications:
- Experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare industries preferred.
- Experience partnering with enterprise platform teams or Product teams supporting digital and operational capabilities.
- Experience working in rare disease or specialty brands, with strong understanding of unique stakeholder dynamics.
Working Requirements:
- 10-20% travel will be required.
Jazz Expected Behaviors
- Demonstrates ownership and accountability, taking responsibility for outcomes and driving work forward with urgency, clarity, and a focus on impact.
- Leads with curiosity and a Growth Mindset, actively exploring user needs, emerging technologies, and new ways of working to elevate capability and innovation.
- Embraces change as a learning opportunity, adapting quickly, modeling resilience, and helping others navigate dynamic environments.
- Acts with a One Jazz mindset, prioritizing enterprise value, breaking down silos, and building strong, trust-based partnerships across teams.
- Delivers high performance results, setting ambitious goals, challenging assumptions, and consistently driving measurable business impact.
- Models inclusive, collaborative leadership, creating space for diverse perspectives and empowering others to contribute their best work.
- Invest in continuous learning, developing personal skills while coaching and elevating the capabilities of colleagues and cross functional partners.
- Navigates ambiguity with confidence, using sound judgment, data, and user insights to make informed decisions even when information is incomplete.
- Communicates with clarity and influence, simplifying complexity, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring shared understanding of priorities and outcomes.
FOR US BASED CANDIDATES ONLY
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and we strive to provide employees with total compensation packages that are market competitive. For this role, the full and complete base pay range is: $141,600.00 - $212,400.00
Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, and other pertinent factors. The goal is to ensure fair and competitive compensation aligned with the candidate's expertise and contributions, within the established pay framework and our Total Compensation philosophy. Internal equity considerations will also influence individual base pay decisions. This range will be reviewed on a regular basis.
At Jazz, your base pay is only one part of your total compensation package. The successful candidate may also be eligible for a discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation (depending on the role), in accordance with the terms of the Company's Global Cash Bonus Plan or Incentive Compensation Plan, as well as discretionary equity grants in accordance with Jazz's Long Term Equity Incentive Plan.
The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation.
Job Details
Req ID:
R011544
Location:
Philadelphia, PA - [Remote/Home-Based]
Category:
Information Technology
If you are a current Jazz employee please apply via the Internal Career site.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases — often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide.
At Jazz, we are reimagining how we design and deliver more precise customer experiences, enabled by new technologies, modern ways of working, and high performing team behaviors. Through this work, we enable teams to better understand patients, caregivers, and HCPs, anticipate their needs across the enterprise, deliver timely and personalized engagement, and orchestrate seamless, end-to-end experiences as One Jazz.
To power this ambition with both speed and scale, we are embracing a new product-oriented operating model, allowing business and technology teams to partner side by side in building, advancing, and delivering global capabilities across our enterprise. Cross-functional, empowered Global Capability teams own outcomes—not just outputs—and work from clear capability visions, strategies, and measurable goals. We prioritize user problems, validate solutions through experimentation and data, and iterate quickly to create real value for our users and the business. As part of this model, you’ll collaborate closely with users, stakeholders, and technical teams across the organization, using discovery and delivery practices to ensure we’re building the right things, in the right way, at the right time.
The Tech Lead, KOL & External Engagement Platforms, provides hands-on technical leadership and solution design expertise for the KOL & External Engagement Platforms Global Capability team within the Customer Operations function. Reporting to the Technical Suite Lead, this role serves as the primary technical leader for the capability, partnering closely with the Product Owner, Activation Lead, development teams, and/or vendor teams to ensure capability priorities and global standards.
The KOL & External Engagement Platforms team enables the planning, execution, and performance tracking of events, congresses, speaker programs, and broader engagement activities across KOLs, HCPs, patients, and caregivers. As the Tech Lead, this role is a hands-on contributor and technical leader, directly involved in designing, building, and delivering solutions for engagement and event management platforms alongside the development team, bringing technical depth and leadership to every stage of the work.
Essential Functions/Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy & Technical Roadmap Development
- Partner closely with the KOL & External Engagement Platforms Global Capability Owner to support the design of solutions that solve business problems, providing technical insight on what the technology can and cannot do, effort levels, and tradeoffs.
- Collaborate with the Customer Operations Technical Suite Lead and Architects to contribute to translating capability roadmaps into scalable technology architectures and development plans while assessing feasibility, constraints, dependencies, and risks.
- Convert complex business requirements into clear technical specifications and executable technical work tasks.
Solution Architecture & Technical Delivery
- Execute technical activities for the technical team and drive work plans, building, configuration, and integration of software aligned to business needs and technology standards, including:
- HCP EngageNow, Veeva Events Portal, and similar engagement platforms, enabling planning, coordination, and tracking of KOL, HCP, and patient engagement activities.
- Event and congress management platforms (e.g., SpotMe, Cadence), supporting execution and measurement of large-scale events and speaker programs.
- Integration frameworks, enabling connectivity between engagement platforms, CRM systems, analytics platforms, and compliance systems.
- Translate technical requirements into well-defined work for the development team, lead agile ceremonies, and ensure disciplined execution of the capability roadmap, taking ownership of complex technical challenges end to end.
- Coordinate development teams in integrating engagement platforms with upstream and downstream systems (e.g., CRM, web, analytics platforms).
- Ensure solutions meet compliance, auditability, and regulatory requirements for external engagement and healthcare interaction workflows.
- Reinforce standard engagement workflows across brands, markets, and channels.
- Enable automation and optimization of engagement processes to improve efficiency and user experience.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Partner with business, IT security, and vendor teams to ensure the KOL & External Engagement Platforms team technical solutions adhere to organizational standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Organize and direct vendor partners to execute technical work, ensuring alignment with capability priorities, delivery timelines, and enterprise standards.
- Partner with the Technical Suite Lead, Customer Operations, to escalate and resolve complex technical challenges that span across Global Capability teams.
- Mentor and guide software engineers and developers, elevating the team's overall technical capability.
- Lead cross-team problem solving and resolution of technical challenges within the Global Capability team.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Technical Skills
- Experience designing, testing, deploying, operating, and enhancing scalable, secure, and compliant technology solutions for large scale organizational use.
- Understanding of enterprise software architecture, cloud platforms, and modern engineering frameworks. Knowledge of system integration patterns, APIs, and data architecture across enterprise technology platforms.
- Knowledge of KOL identification and engagement strategies, event execution workflows, HCP compliance and consent requirements, speaker program management and governance, and performance tracking frameworks.
- Ability to translate engagement strategies into durable, reusable data and platform capabilities. Experience managing vendor-heavy ecosystems, including roadmap alignment, integration standards, and delivery accountability. Ability to integrate engagement platforms with CRM, analytics, and data platforms for measurement and optimization.
- Strong understanding of event and engagement management platforms, KOL identification and engagement tools, and vendor-supported engagement solutions. Experience designing and integrating enterprise digital platforms such as Veeva Events Portal, SpotMe, Cadence, HCP EngageNow, IFI/MB4, and Patient Advocacy/Conference Engagement Tools.
- Preferred: Proven experience as a full-stack application builder for external-facing (customer / consumer) apps, with track record of partnering closely with business teams. Ability to design scalable KOL and external engagement capabilities beyond just integrating tools.
- Ability to partner with Global Capability Owners to translate executive and Franchise requirements into scalable, well-governed technology solutions with roadmaps and prioritization. Provide technical leadership on standardization, KPI implementation, and architectural trade-offs to ensure enterprise technology assets remain consistent, performant, and extensible across brands and regions.
- Experience leading mixed teams of internal developers and vendors, including technical direction, code and dashboard reviews, estimation, and delivery accountability. Proven ability to collaborate with UX researchers and UI designers, with user-centric mindset applied to technical development.
- Experience working within Agile product development teams and product operating models.
Business Skills
- Customer Journey Understanding – ability to see customer’s end-to-end experience clearly and use it on an ongoing basis for go to market strategic, tactical and measurement decisions, while anticipating needs across touchpoints. Make practical decisions that improve journey and outcomes.
- Digital-first Mindset— ability to look for opportunities to streamline and improve the customer experience and Jazz performance through digital tools, data and automation to create better, faster and more scalable outcomes.
- Cross functional Matrix Collaboration – ability to work fluidly across teams and reporting lines respecting SME, coordinating shared work, ensuring progress even when accountability is distributed – supporting decisions with professional alignment and focus on collective success. Deeply understands and values unique capabilities and perspectives of diverse functions.
- Critical Thinking - The ability to assess a range of inputs objectively, challenge assumptions with curiosity, and generate sound, forward-looking judgments that improve decisions.
- Adoption — ability to quickly embrace new tools, new WoW, and behaviors applying with confidence and practical improvement.
Required/Preferred Education and Licenses
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related technical field.
- 7+ years of experience after Bachelor's degree (or 5+ years of experience after Master's degree) in customer engagement, KOL management, event and congress operations, patient advocacy, or related domains in pharma, with expertise in engagement platforms, speaker programs, and compliant customer experience delivery across HCPs, patients, and caregivers.
- 2+ years of experience as a Tech Lead, Technical Program Manager, Engineering Manager, or other roles involving managing a team of developers.
- Expertise in engagement platforms, speaker programs, and compliant customer experience delivery across HCPs, patients, and caregivers.
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale digital platforms such as engagement platforms, event management systems, CRM-integrated solutions, or external interaction management systems.
- Experience working within complex, matrixed organizations with multiple technology and product teams.
- Proven ability to mentor and guide developers and vendor partners to deliver high-quality solutions.
Preferred / Additional Qualifications:
- Experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare industries preferred.
- Experience partnering with enterprise platform teams or Product teams supporting digital and operational capabilities.
- Experience working in rare disease or specialty brands, with strong understanding of unique stakeholder dynamics.
Working Requirements:
- 10-20% travel will be required.
Jazz Expected Behaviors
- Demonstrates ownership and accountability, taking responsibility for outcomes and driving work forward with urgency, clarity, and a focus on impact.
- Leads with curiosity and a Growth Mindset, actively exploring user needs, emerging technologies, and new ways of working to elevate capability and innovation.
- Embraces change as a learning opportunity, adapting quickly, modeling resilience, and helping others navigate dynamic environments.
- Acts with a One Jazz mindset, prioritizing enterprise value, breaking down silos, and building strong, trust-based partnerships across teams.
- Delivers high performance results, setting ambitious goals, challenging assumptions, and consistently driving measurable business impact.
- Models inclusive, collaborative leadership, creating space for diverse perspectives and empowering others to contribute their best work.
- Invest in continuous learning, developing personal skills while coaching and elevating the capabilities of colleagues and cross functional partners.
- Navigates ambiguity with confidence, using sound judgment, data, and user insights to make informed decisions even when information is incomplete.
- Communicates with clarity and influence, simplifying complexity, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring shared understanding of priorities and outcomes.
FOR US BASED CANDIDATES ONLY
Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and we strive to provide employees with total compensation packages that are market competitive. For this role, the full and complete base pay range is: $141,600.00 - $212,400.00
Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, and other pertinent factors. The goal is to ensure fair and competitive compensation aligned with the candidate's expertise and contributions, within the established pay framework and our Total Compensation philosophy. Internal equity considerations will also influence individual base pay decisions. This range will be reviewed on a regular basis.
At Jazz, your base pay is only one part of your total compensation package. The successful candidate may also be eligible for a discretionary annual cash bonus or incentive compensation (depending on the role), in accordance with the terms of the Company's Global Cash Bonus Plan or Incentive Compensation Plan, as well as discretionary equity grants in accordance with Jazz's Long Term Equity Incentive Plan.
The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and vision insurance, 401k retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation.
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PERM requires the role to need at minimum a bachelor's degree in a specific field. Document that your Technical Engagement Manager position demands specialized knowledge in areas like solutions architecture, enterprise software, or technical consulting, not just general management skills.
Verify employers have active PERM filing history
Search the DOL's OFLC Wage Search database to confirm a company has filed PERM labor certifications for technical roles before. Employers without that history often underestimate the process timeline, which can derail your green card filing mid-employment.
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Ask your prospective employer directly whether they'll file an I-140 concurrent with or shortly after your start date. Getting this committed in writing before you sign avoids situations where sponsorship gets deferred indefinitely after onboarding.
Understand how PERM audits affect technical roles
DOL audits PERM applications where the job description lists requirements that appear tailored to a specific candidate. For Technical Engagement Manager roles, keep duty descriptions accurate and aligned with what O*NET lists for the occupation to reduce audit risk.
Track your priority date against the visa bulletin
If you're from India or China, EB-3 backlogs mean years can pass between I-140 approval and adjustment of status eligibility. File your I-140 as early as possible to lock in a priority date, even if you're still in H-1B visa status.
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Does a Technical Engagement Manager role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Technical Engagement Manager positions typically qualify under both EB-2 and EB-3, depending on the degree requirement the employer sets. EB-2 applies when the role requires an advanced degree or the candidate has a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience. EB-3 covers roles requiring at minimum a bachelor's degree in a relevant field like computer science, engineering, or information systems.
How does PERM-based green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
H-1B is a temporary work visa with a three-year initial period and annual lottery caps. PERM-based EB-2 and EB-3 sponsorship leads to permanent residency with no lottery and no annual cap at most nationality levels. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes six months to over a year before the I-140 petition is even filed, making early employer buy-in critical.
How can I find Technical Engagement Manager jobs that offer green card sponsorship?
Most job postings don't flag PERM sponsorship explicitly. Migrate Mate identifies employers with verified employment-based green card filing history, so you can target companies already familiar with the PERM process rather than spending interviews convincing employers to sponsor for the first time.
What documentation should I prepare before starting the PERM process?
Gather official transcripts, degree certificates, and any credential evaluations if your degree is from outside the U.S. Compile a detailed employment history showing progressive responsibility in technical engagement or adjacent roles. PERM requires your employer to demonstrate that your qualifications genuinely match the stated role requirements, so gaps or inconsistencies in your record create unnecessary audit risk.
Can my employer start the PERM process while I'm on an H-1B?
Yes, and starting early is strongly advisable. USCIS allows concurrent H-1B status and an active PERM or I-140 filing with no conflict. Filing the I-140 while on H-1B also lets you lock in a priority date, which is especially valuable for nationals from high-backlog countries waiting on EB-3 visa availability.