Associate Director, Marketing AI - Foster City, CA
Gilead Sciences
September 03, 2026
Remote friendly (San Francisco Bay Area)
United States
Marketing
Job Description
This role leads and coordinates Agentic AI capabilities to enable effective marketing strategy, insights, and activation decisions for HCP and patient-focused tactics.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and develop the US marketing AI decisioning capability roadmap aligned to US commercial priorities and enterprise capabilities.
- Establish and lead a multi-year roadmap of agentic AI capabilities for HCP and patient-focused tactics.
- Prioritize agentic AI capabilities by business need and impact, scalability, feasibility, and Responsible AI guidelines.
- Establish and manage governance with stakeholders to ensure transparency, timely prioritization, and roadmap implementation.
- Drive implementation of AI agents with functional and technology partners.
- Develop therapeutic area/brand context, business rules, and structured/unstructured data needed to configure AI agents for use cases.
- Integrate/connect marketing AI decisioning agents with cross-functional AI agents under Responsible AI guidelines.
- Build cross-functional alignment (US Digital & AI strategy/ops, commercial insights/analytics, Commercial IT, global decision science/data management).
- Define an operating model across business and technology teams for scalability and sustainability.
- Partner with IT to scope and deliver scalable agentic AI solutions.
- Lead end-to-end delivery, balancing speed with quality; define quarterly priorities/milestones; ensure measurable business outcomes.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s + 10 years’ experience OR Master’s + 8 years OR PhD + 2 years.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years pharma commercial experience; strong analytical and communication skills.
- Deep expertise building agentic AI for marketing strategy, insight generation, and activation workflows.
- Experience with pharmaceutical data (patient-level claims; HCP/patient engagement from sales, marketing, and patient support).
- Ability to navigate commercial data/analytics/technology environments; translate complex problems into measurable outcomes.
- Strong organizational, planning, project management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
People Leader Accountabilities
- Create Inclusion; Develop Talent; Empower Teams.
Application Instructions
- For current employees/contractors: apply via the Internal Career Opportunities portal in Workday.
This role leads and coordinates Agentic AI capabilities to enable effective marketing strategy, insights, and activation decisions for HCP and patient-focused tactics.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and develop the US marketing AI decisioning capability roadmap aligned to US commercial priorities and enterprise capabilities.
- Establish and lead a multi-year roadmap of agentic AI capabilities for HCP and patient-focused tactics.
- Prioritize agentic AI capabilities by business need and impact, scalability, feasibility, and Responsible AI guidelines.
- Establish and manage governance with stakeholders to ensure transparency, timely prioritization, and roadmap implementation.
- Drive implementation of AI agents with functional and technology partners.
- Develop therapeutic area/brand context, business rules, and structured/unstructured data needed to configure AI agents for use cases.
- Integrate/connect marketing AI decisioning agents with cross-functional AI agents under Responsible AI guidelines.
- Build cross-functional alignment (US Digital & AI strategy/ops, commercial insights/analytics, Commercial IT, global decision science/data management).
- Define an operating model across business and technology teams for scalability and sustainability.
- Partner with IT to scope and deliver scalable agentic AI solutions.
- Lead end-to-end delivery, balancing speed with quality; define quarterly priorities/milestones; ensure measurable business outcomes.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s + 10 years’ experience OR Master’s + 8 years OR PhD + 2 years.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years pharma commercial experience; strong analytical and communication skills.
- Deep expertise building agentic AI for marketing strategy, insight generation, and activation workflows.
- Experience with pharmaceutical data (patient-level claims; HCP/patient engagement from sales, marketing, and patient support).
- Ability to navigate commercial data/analytics/technology environments; translate complex problems into measurable outcomes.
- Strong organizational, planning, project management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
People Leader Accountabilities
- Create Inclusion; Develop Talent; Empower Teams.
Application Instructions
- For current employees/contractors: apply via the Internal Career Opportunities portal in Workday.