Gilberte Houbart

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Innovation Manager, AI & Experience Design at IQVIA

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Overview

Gilberte Houbart is an AI and Innovation leader at IQVIA, specializing in enterprise software for Life Sciences and Commerce. With a Masters from MIT, her expertise spans product design and UX at startups and large corporations like Salesforce. Colleagues describe her as passionate, effective, and a dedicated mentor.

Outside of her core role, Gilberte has an academic interest in typography and design thinking, having taken courses at Lesley University and obtained certifications in facilitating remote design thinking. Her art background is frequently cited as key to her vision and success in user interface design.

Unique fact: Gilberte co-holds a patent for a "Mixed cart solution for an in-store app" developed to bridge physical and digital commerce experiences.

Personality Overview

ROI Driven

Precise But Practical

Fast But Analytical

They respond better to strong and respectful interactions.  They prefer to be the ones controlling the conversation or defining the terms. They like to move fast and expect the same from others.

Topics They Care About

AI in Healthcare
Currently leads AI and Experience Design at IQVIA, a healthcare tech company. She actively follows and posts about AI innovators like Nabla who are empowering clinicians.
Product Design Ethics
Authored an article on "The Ethics of Product Design in the Age of Tracking, " exploring the moral responsibilities of designers in a data-driven world.
Enterprise UX
Has extensive experience building and managing UX teams for enterprise platforms at Salsify and Salesforce (Demandware), and has written about designing for enterprise users.

Media Appearances

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Work History

3-2025
Innovation Manager, AI & Experience Design at IQVIA
4-2024 - 9-2025
Sr Manager, Product Design at IQVIA
11-2020 - 3-2024
Lead Designer, RIM Smart Label suite at IQVIA
11-2019 - 10-2020
UX Strategy and Design at Leela AI
4-2019 - 10-2019
Director, Product Design at Salsify

Education

Master’s Degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Insights For Selling To Gilberte

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Hold your ground without indulging in one-upmanship
  • Speak about competitive differentiation that your product offers
  • Be respectful but crisp

DONT's

  • Don't try too hard to forge relationships with them
  • Don’t be in a rush to invite them for a social meet and greet
  • Avoid being too verbose

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Gilberte is

  • Conviction around the impact matters the most to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Gilberte

  • If they decide not to use your product, they will say no clearly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Gilberte move?

  • They can reach decisions fairly quickly if they are convinced.
  • Can Gilberte take some risk or not?

  • They don’t mind risks but can be quite binary about them.

You And Gilberte

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