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Director, Global Commercial Learning Strategy & Curriculum

Gilead Sciences

Foster City, CAHybridPosted 17 days ago$210,375.00 - $272,250.00
Full TimeDirector & AboveCommercial & Pharma SalesPharmaceutical
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Summary

We are seeking a Director, Global Commercial Learning Strategy & Curriculum, who provides strategic leadership for how commercial learning is designed, developed, governed, and scaled globally. This role brings together curriculum strategy, instructional design, and content operations to create connected, high-impact learning experiences that address business priorities while balancing global consistency with local market needs. The Director works across a complex global organization to advance scalable, innovative, and future-ready approaches to commercial capability development.

Job description

Key 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.

Minimum Education and Years of Experience

Bachelor's Degree and Twelve Years' Experience OR Masters' Degree and Ten Years' Experience OR PhD and Eight Years' Experience

Qualifications

  • 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, pharma content approval, and content lifecycle management.
  • Experience improving learning quality, speed, scalability, or impact through content reuse, automation, AI, or new operating models.

People Leader Accountabilities

  • Create Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.
  • Develop Talent - understand the skills, experience, aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employees are receiving the feedback and insight needed to grow, develop and realize their purpose.
  • Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals, purpose, and organizational objectives, and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree and Twelve Years' Experience OR Masters' Degree and Ten Years' Experience OR PhD and Eight Years' 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, pharma content approval, and content lifecycle management.
  • Experience improving learning quality, speed, scalability, or impact through content reuse, automation, AI, or new operating models.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental & Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • Paid Time Off
  • Annual Bonus
  • Stock-Based Long-Term Incentives

Company overview

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a leading American biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Foster City, California, that specializes in researching, developing, and commercializing innovative medicines for life-threatening diseases. Founded in 1987, Gilead has grown into a global healthcare leader with approximately 17,600 employees worldwide. The company's primary therapeutic focus areas include HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis (hepatitis B and C), oncology, inflammation, and respiratory diseases. Gilead is renowned for its groundbreaking antiviral therapies, including Sovaldi and Harvoni for hepatitis C, and its comprehensive portfolio of HIV treatments such as Truvada, Atripla, and Biktarvy. The company also developed Veklury (remdesivir) for COVID-19 treatment. Gilead operates as a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ (GILD) and is a component of both the Nasdaq-100 and S&P 100 indices. Through strategic acquisitions like Kite Pharma and Immunomedics, Gilead has expanded into cell therapy and oncology, demonstrating its commitment to advancing medical science and improving patient outcomes globally.

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