Associate Director, Launch Excellence

Revolution Medicines

8h•$177,000 - $221,000•Remote

About The Position

Revolution Medicines is seeking an experienced, collaborative Associate Director, Launch Excellence to help build the company’s global launch-excellence capability while managing assigned global product launches. This role is part of Global Commercialization Effectiveness & Operations and supports the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of launch standards, readiness processes, governance, tools, and reporting across the portfolio. For assigned launches, the Associate Director provides hands-on project-management leadership from approximately 24 months before launch through six months after launch. The role supports the Global Launch Strategy Team, drives readiness and execution across functions and regions, and builds integrated launch plans, governance, and reporting. In partnership with Launch Excellence and Commercial Project Management leaders, the Associate Director also develops scalable approaches for planning, tracking, and managing launches across the portfolio. The position works across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Supply, Legal, Finance, Development, and regional stakeholders. It balances direct launch delivery with capability building in a fast-paced, evolving environment, translating launch experience and lessons into practical, repeatable processes and tools. The advertised base pay range for this full-time position is $177,000–$221,000 USD for candidates working onsite at the company’s Redwood City, California headquarters. The range is adjusted for local market, and individual salary depends on factors including skills, experience, market dynamics, and relevant education or training. The company also describes its total rewards program as including competitive cash compensation, equity awards, benefits, and learning and development opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, or a related industry.
Experience leading complex, cross-functional commercialization, launch-readiness, operational-excellence, or business-critical initiatives.
Demonstrated experience managing or supporting product-launch planning, readiness, and execution within a global pharmaceutical or biotechnology organization.
Strong project-management skills, including integrated planning, milestone and dependency management, risk and issue management, governance, and executive communication.
Ability to develop practical processes, tools, and reporting that enable teams to plan, track, and execute work consistently.
Experience working across global and regional operating models and with geographically dispersed stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into clear status updates, recommendations, and action plans.
Track record of thriving in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a proactive, collaborative, and solutions-oriented mindset.
Excellent facilitation, interpersonal, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree such as an MBA, MS, PhD, or equivalent.
Oncology or specialty-pharma commercialization experience.
Experience contributing to the development of launch-excellence, commercial-operations, or project-management capabilities.
Experience supporting launches across multiple markets, regions, or indications.
Formal project-management training or certification, such as PMP.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end project management for assigned global product launches, from approximately 24 months before launch through six months post-launch.
Support the Global Launch Strategy Team by establishing governance, operating rhythms, decision-making forums, and accountability across launch workstreams.
Build, maintain, and drive execution of integrated launch plans involving Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Supply, Legal, Finance, Development, and regional stakeholders.
Manage launch milestones, critical paths, workstream deliverables, interdependencies, risks, issues, and decisions; develop mitigation plans and escalate issues as appropriate.
Create and maintain launch-readiness assessments, dashboards, timelines, and executive-level reporting on launch status and health.
Partner with the Launch Excellence team to design and implement the global launch-excellence framework, including lifecycle standards, readiness criteria, governance, templates, tools, and operating rhythms.
Lead defined launch-excellence workstreams and capability-building initiatives from problem definition through implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement.
Support standardized launch-readiness processes, integrated milestone frameworks, dashboards, and reporting for consistent visibility across priority launches.
Coordinate portfolio-level launch status, health, risks, dependencies, and key decisions with Launch Excellence and Commercial Project Management leaders.
Prepare and facilitate launch-readiness reviews, governance forums, and working sessions; document decisions, actions, risks, and follow-up.
Work with cross-functional and regional teams to embed launch-excellence standards into day-to-day planning and execution.
Partner with enterprise Project Managers to apply launch-management tools, readiness assessments, and best practices across assets and share practical problem-solving approaches.
Identify recurring gaps, process friction, and risks across launches, and develop recommendations and improvement plans with stakeholders.
Capture launch learnings and post-launch insights and translate them into updates to launch methodology, tools, and training materials.
Contribute to onboarding, training, and change-management activities that strengthen launch-management capability across global and regional teams.
Develop executive-ready materials communicating portfolio status, emerging risks, readiness themes, and recommendations.