Director, Global Commercial Learning Strategy & Curriculum

Gilead Sciences • Foster City, CA

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About The Position

Gilead is seeking a Director to provide strategic leadership for the design, development, governance, and global scaling of commercial learning. The role brings together curriculum strategy, instructional design, and content operations to create connected, high-impact learning experiences aligned with business priorities while balancing global consistency and local market needs. The Director will work across a complex global organization to advance scalable, innovative, and future-ready approaches to commercial capability development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of experience, or master's degree and 10 years of experience, or PhD and 8 years of experience.
• Significant commercial learning, capability development, curriculum strategy, or instructional design experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, or another regulated industry.
• Experience leading global or enterprise learning initiatives in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Expertise in curriculum architecture, learner journey design, instructional design, and content governance.
• Experience supporting Product and Therapeutic Area learning and partnering with Marketing and other commercial capability owners.
• Ability to establish scalable strategies, standards, governance frameworks, and flexible operating models.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams across functions, regions, and affiliates.
• Experience leading blended teams of employees, contractors, agencies, and external partners.
• Working knowledge of regulated content development, localization, pharmaceutical content approval, and content lifecycle management.
• Experience improving learning quality, speed, scalability, or impact through content reuse, automation, AI, or new operating models.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve global commercial learning architecture, curriculum strategy, governance, and learner journeys across Product and Therapeutic Area learning, Sales Leader Development, Marketing Excellence, selling skills, and advanced commercial capabilities.
• Translate business priorities into connected, scalable learning solutions that balance global consistency with local market needs.
• Lead the instructional design function and establish standards for curriculum design, learner experience, content quality, and delivery.
• Govern the commercial learning portfolio, including content lifecycle management, localization, pharmaceutical review, and reuse of learning assets and intellectual property.
• Lead a flexible development model that leverages internal expertise, contractors, external partners, and AI-enabled capabilities while preserving institutional knowledge.
• Evaluate resourcing and investment trade-offs to optimize quality, speed, scalability, and business impact.
• Serve as a strategic advisor and drive alignment across Global Commercial Learning & Development, Product and Therapeutic Area Learning, Marketing, global affiliates, and enabling functions.
• Champion global learning solutions and incorporate affiliate and market insights into future curriculum and learner journey strategies.
• Connect content and resources across functions to reduce duplication, break down silos, and accelerate development.
• Partner with Learning Technology and Learning Effectiveness leaders to enable scalable, measurable, and AI-enabled learning solutions.
• Create inclusion by modeling inclusion and embedding the value of diversity in team management.
• Develop talent by understanding employee skills, experience, aspirations, and potential, and coaching employees on performance and growth.
• Empower teams by aligning goals with organizational objectives, holding teams accountable, removing barriers, and connecting them to the broader organization.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus eligibility
• Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives, with eligibility varying by role
• Paid time off
• Company-sponsored medical insurance
• Company-sponsored dental insurance
• Company-sponsored vision insurance
• Company-sponsored life insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director