Director of Growth Hub

At Gilead were creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years weve tackled diseases such as HIV viral hepatitis COVID-19 and cancer working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the worlds biggest health challenges and our mission requires collaboration determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

Every member of Gileads team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions and were looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible together.

Job Description

At Gilead our pursuit of a healthier world for all people has yielded a cure for hepatitis C revolutionary improvements in HIV treatment and prevention as well as advancements in therapies for viral and inflammatory diseases and certain cancers.

We set and achieve bold ambitions in our fight against the worlds most devastating diseases united in our commitment to confronting the largest public health challenges of our day and improving the lives of patients for generations to come.

About & the Growth Hub

is a multi-year enterprise-wide initiative to accelerate employee growth career mobility and capability building across all levels of the organization. Central to the initiative is the creation of a Growth Hub; a unified intelligent access point for all employees people leaders and executives to access growth opportunities feedback learning and internal mobilitypowered by AI integrated systems and a seamless user experience.

The Growth Hub will harness generative and predictive AI integrated data systems and human-centered design to create adaptive experiences that evolve with user behavior and business needs. This role will lead the transformation from a static HR platform into a living intelligence system that connects growth learning and opportunity in real time.

As a Director of Growth Hub at Gilead you will:

Role Summary

As the Director of Growth Hub you have the opportunity to create a vision strategy and roadmap with your key partners. You will be the core architect and driver of how we bring this vision to life. Its an exciting complex ambiguous challenge that requires someone with the passion motivation and enthusiasm to creating a guiding coalition and build a strong x-functional team committed to the needs of our employees and achieving business outcomes.

You will partner extensively with the Talent & Growth leadership team (vision and strategy alignment) IT and People Technology (technology build integration) Talent Management (annual talent processes) and Learning (enablement for employees and people leaders) to deliver a single intuitive and measurable growth experience for all Gilead employees.

This is an opportunity to design how AI data and human insight converge to empower every employees career journey. The ideal candidate is an AI-literate systems thinker who thrives on ambiguity designs with empathy and uses experimentation to turn possibilities into measurable outcomes.

This role reports to the Global Head of Talent & Growth.

What Youll Do

Shape the Vision & Roadmap: Define and operationalize the Growth Hub strategy in partnership with Talent Management Learning and ITprioritizing AI-driven experiences that scale with user feedback and business impact.

• Design Adaptive Employee Journeys: Deliver end-to-end growth pathways powered by AI insightsconnecting goals skills feedback and opportunities in real time.

• Orchestrate Intelligent Integrations: Unify Workday LXP/LMS and talent marketplace data into a coherent ecosystem that enables continuous learning and role-based recommendations.

• Champion opportunity parity and safe-to-fail learning embedding transparent equitable access to gigs projects mentoring and career paths.

• Embed AI guidance (nudges coaching summaries) across journeys to accelerate growth and reduce friction.

• Drive adoption and change through enablement communications feedback and amplification of success stories.

• Measure and communicate value: Define and operationalize success metrics and dashboards linking growth activity to business outcomes.

• Run a rigorous backlog and operating cadence: Prioritize based on ROI run experiments and close the loop on user/system feedback.

• Govern with Confidence: Partner with Legal Compliance InfoSec and Data Governance to ensure responsible AI usage and ethical data practices.

AI Strategy & Experimentation

• Prototype the Future: Build and evaluate emerging AI applicationsfrom conversational copilots to skills inference enginesthat redefine employee growth and learning.

• Establish a Growth Hub Lab: Create a rapid experimentation environment to test measure and scale generative and retrieval-augmented AI models in partnership with internal data and IT teams.

What Success Looks Like

• Adoption & engagement: High monthly active usage and improved employee sentiment on growth and career opportunities.

• Capability-to-value speed: Faster time from skill acquisition to application in role; improved capability readiness for strategic initiatives.

• Internal mobility & retention: Higher internal fill rates faster time-to-productivity and improved retention of high performers.

• Equity & access: Reduced variance in opportunity access across populations; transparent auditable patterns.

• Innovation throughput: Increased conversion of experiments to implemented solutions and measurable business value.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 12 years of relevant experience leading complex cross-functional digital or talent/HR technology initiatives or 10 years of experience with a masters degree.

• Proven experience integrating HR systems (Workday LXP/LMS) data/taxonomies and role-based access at scale.

• Demonstrated success driving adoption and behavior change through enablement and in-experience guidance.

• Expertise in defining and instrumenting metrics and executive dashboards.

• Experience with AI-enabled experiences and ethical AI governance.

• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with internal talent marketplaces skills frameworks and opportunity curation.

• Background in performance/learning separation and psychological safety practices.

• Experience building leader learning communities and operationalizing leader behaviors.

• Experience and comfort with AI technologies and usage.

Why This Role Matters

This role is central to realizing the visionco-creating a unified measurable experience that accelerates capability building internal mobility and innovation while ensuring opportunity parity and a culture of continuous growth for all.

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.

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Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

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