Director, Portfolio Digital Capabilities & Innovation, HIV Treatment

Gilead Sciences • Foster City, CA

13d • $226,185 - $292,710

About The Position

The Director, Portfolio Digital Capabilities & Innovation, HIV Treatment leads the portfolio business strategy for identifying, prioritizing, scaling, and driving adoption of high-value digital capabilities and innovation across the HIV Treatment portfolio. The role focuses on advancing capabilities such as NBA/NBE, AI-enabled engagement, personalization, and emerging digital solutions, translating successful brand-led pilots and enterprise capabilities into scalable, repeatable approaches that create value across multiple brands.

The Director serves as the portfolio business lead for digital capability prioritization and scale, identifying opportunities, establishing business requirements, evaluating value, and driving adoption. The role partners with Brand Marketing, Customer Engagement & Experience, Digital Strategy & Operations (DSO), Analytics, Sales, and other cross-functional partners to connect HIV Treatment business priorities with appropriate capabilities and implementation pathways. Brand teams own differentiated brand strategy and execution; Portfolio Marketing identifies opportunities to create value across brands; and DSO provides enterprise digital expertise, capabilities, governance, and implementation.

The position also includes people-leader responsibilities: creating an inclusive environment, developing talent, and empowering teams. The salary range is $226,185 to $292,710. The position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives, paid time off, and company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing or a related field and at least 12 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience, or a PhD and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of digital marketing, omnichannel engagement, personalization, NBA/NBE or related decisioning approaches, data-driven marketing, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities.
• Ability to translate business strategy and customer needs into clear capability requirements and scalable solutions.
• Ability to evaluate pilots, establish success measures, and use data and insights to guide prioritization, investment, and scale decisions.
• Strong strategic and commercial judgment, including ability to evaluate emerging technology and innovation against defined customer and business needs.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead across functions without direct authority.
• Strong executive communication skills, including translating complex digital and technology topics into clear business implications and recommendations.
• Ability to build productive partnerships across Marketing, Digital, Analytics, Sales, and external partners.
• People-leadership capability, including creating inclusion, developing talent, and empowering teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives within a highly matrixed organization.
• Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other highly regulated industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio business strategy for digital capabilities across HIV Treatment, translating portfolio strategy, brand needs, and customer opportunities into a prioritized capability roadmap.
• Identify shared needs and opportunities across brands where digital capabilities can increase impact, accelerate learning, or reduce duplication.
• Prioritize NBA/NBE, AI-enabled engagement, personalization, and emerging digital capabilities, anchoring investment in defined business needs.
• Partner with DSO and cross-functional stakeholders to assess emerging solutions and determine their relevance to HIV Treatment.
• Develop business cases and decision-ready recommendations to guide capability investment, prioritization, and evolution.
• Establish and lead a disciplined pilot-to-scale model that turns successful brand-led innovation into scalable, repeatable portfolio capabilities.
• Partner with brand teams to define business needs, priority use cases, and success criteria while preserving brand ownership of differentiated strategy and execution.
• Evaluate pilots and emerging solutions for broader portfolio applicability, determining whether capabilities should be scaled, refined, or discontinued based on business value and strategic relevance.
• Translate successful pilots into portfolio business requirements and partner with DSO to enable broader deployment.
• Capture and share learnings across brands to accelerate adoption of proven approaches and avoid recreating solutions brand by brand.
• Lead the HIV Treatment portfolio business strategy for the continued evolution and integration of NBA/NBE and related precision-engagement capabilities.
• Translate brand and portfolio priorities into capability requirements and use cases, including opportunities to strengthen signals, triggers, decision logic, and personalization.
• Partner with Brand Marketing, DSO, Analytics, Sales, and other stakeholders to advance precision-engagement capabilities and identify optimization opportunities.
• Drive integration and scalability as the portfolio evolves, balancing differentiated brand needs with consistency and efficiency.
• Partner with Customer Engagement & Experience to ensure digital capabilities enable the intended customer journey while that function retains ownership of portfolio customer experience strategy.
• Drive adoption and realization of business value for prioritized digital capabilities, moving successful solutions from pilot to sustained portfolio use.
• Establish business objectives, success criteria, and adoption measures with Brand Marketing, Analytics, DSO, and other stakeholders.
• Use capability performance, adoption, customer insights, and business insights to guide continued investment, optimization, or discontinuation.
• Translate performance and emerging opportunities into decision-ready recommendations for HIV Treatment leadership.
• Build connectivity and learning across brands and functions to strengthen digital acumen, accelerate reuse of successful approaches, and foster disciplined, business-driven innovation.
• Create inclusion by modeling inclusion and embedding the value of diversity in team management.
• Develop talent by understanding employees' skills, experience, aspirations, and potential, and coaching them on current performance and future 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 may be available.
• Discretionary stock-based long-term incentives may be available; eligibility may vary 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