Will AI replace Regulatory Affairs Managers?
AI reaches most of this job’s work.
55/100
Very high exposure
More exposed to AI than 86% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 15% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 89% of the work
What the job involves
Plan, direct, or coordinate production activities of an organization to ensure compliance with regulations and standard operating procedures.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(4)
- Review all regulatory agency submission materials to ensure timeliness, accuracy, comprehensiveness, or compliance with regulatory standards.
- Provide regulatory guidance to departments or development project teams regarding design, development, evaluation, or marketing of products.
- Review materials such as marketing literature or user manuals to ensure that regulatory agency requirements are met.
- Investigate product complaints and prepare documentation and submissions to appropriate regulatory agencies as necessary.
Within reach(20)
- Develop regulatory strategies and implementation plans for the preparation and submission of new products.
- Direct the preparation and submission of regulatory agency applications, reports, or correspondence.
- Provide responses to regulatory agencies regarding product information or issues.
- Represent organizations before domestic or international regulatory agencies on major policy matters or decisions regarding company products.
- Communicate regulatory information to multiple departments and ensure that information is interpreted correctly.
and 15 more
Out of reach(3)
- Direct documentation efforts to ensure compliance with domestic and international regulations and standards.
- Manage activities such as audits, regulatory agency inspections, or product recalls.
- Monitor regulatory affairs activities to ensure their alignment with corporate sustainability or green initiatives.
Also called
RA Director (Regulatory Affairs Director) · RA Manager (Regulatory Affairs Manager) · RA Director · RA Manager · CMC Director (Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls Director) · Compliance Director · Global RA Director (Global Regulatory Affairs Director) · Global RA Manager (Global Regulatory Affairs Manager)
Related jobs
What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics