Kite Pharma

Oncology Therapeutics · Cell & Gene Therapy
22open roles
$207kmedian advertised pay
$272.8Mraised in 4 rounds
38H-1B filings in 12 months

Overview

Kite Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Santa Monica, California, that develops and manufactures personalised CAR T-cell therapies for blood cancers and runs research on next-generation cell therapies. Founded in 2009 and acquired by Gilead Sciences in 2017, it operates as an independent Gilead company with manufacturing in El Segundo, Frederick, Maryland, and Hoofddorp in the Netherlands, and plans to move Santa Monica staff to El Segundo and Thousand Oaks from 2027. It hires process development, quality and IT quality engineers, clinical data managers, regulatory and pharmacovigilance managers, sales analytics staff and field cell therapy directors.

How Kite Pharma hires

Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
34 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
75%
Reposted roles
0%

Kite Pharma scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 4 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 75% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 34 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Jobs

$56k – $72k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · High School Diploma · Santa Monica
GMP
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$75k – $97k per year · In office · Full-Time · 2+ years exp · High School Diploma · Philadelphia
Flow Cytometry
Cell Culture
GLP
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$115k – $149k per year · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Santa Monica
JMP
Management
Smartsheet
Life Sciences
qPCR
PCR
Flow Cytometry
ELISA
Cell Culture
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$75k – $97k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 1+ year exp · High School Diploma · Santa Monica
Copilot
DevOps
GCP
Analytics
Power BI
Management
Monday.com
Smartsheet
Jira
Life Sciences
LIMS
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$133k – $172k per year · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Santa Monica
Mass Spectrometry
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$133k – $172k per year · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · High School Diploma · Santa Monica
Python
SQL
Copilot
Prompt Engineering
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
RAG
Hallucination
Agentic Workflows
Copilot Studio
Machine Learning
Life Sciences
Next-Generation Sequencing
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$147k – $190k per year · In office · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Foster City
PCR
Chromatography
Design of Experiments
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$178k – $230k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · PhD · El Segundo · Foster City · Thousand Oaks
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$124k – $160k per year · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · United States
GMP
MedTech
CAPA
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≈ $67k – $111k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Hoofddorp
AutoCAD
Life Sciences
GMP
MedTech
CAPA
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$165k – $214k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · El Segundo
Power BI
Management
Smartsheet
SharePoint
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$191k – $248k per year · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · United States
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All 22 jobs at Kite Pharma salaries, cities, levels and how long each has been open

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$207k
Typical range
$72k – $331k
Open positions
44
44 Jobs
Junior 11.4%
Middle 9.1%
Senior 45.5%
Staff 2.3%
Architect 31.8%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 5 $97k $72k – $172k
Middle 4 $88k $72k – $160k
Senior 20 $194k $149k – $331k
Staff 1 $199k $199k
Architect 14 $260k $214k – $286k
Highest paying role Senior Director, Patient Safety (MD) $331k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Kite Pharma By role, level and city, against the market · 44 jobs with pay

Visa sponsorship

Top 7% of 8,998 sponsors
United StatesUS 38
38 ▼ 46%
H-1B filings in 12 months
16
Green card filings
$154k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Statisticians
7
Data scientists
4
Biochemists and biophysicists
4
9 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits
In the register as Kite Pharma Inc., Foster City, CA (+4 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
Legend Biotech 26 filingsBioNTech 12 filingsImmunityBio 9 filingsIovance Biotherapeutics 3 filings
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 30, 2026 · Visa details by country

Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
47
28 opened / 67 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
34 days
faster than 39% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~10 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
HR
28% ▲
Biotech
14% ▲
Early Careers
13% ▼
Industrial Engineering
12% ▲
Science & Research
7%
Marketing
6% ▲
Actively hiring for HR (+11 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+13 jobs in a week Nov 2026
Added Monday.com to stack Nov 2026
Added Jira to stack Nov 2026
Added Mass Spectrometry to stack Nov 2026
Added RAG to stack Nov 2026
Added Prompt Engineering to stack Nov 2026
Added Next-Generation Sequencing to stack Nov 2026
Added Multimodal AI to stack Nov 2026
Added Hallucination to stack Nov 2026
Added Copilot Studio to stack Nov 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack Nov 2026
+10 jobs in a week Nov 2026

Financials

Total raised
$272.8M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $100M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $10M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2021 $120M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2019 $42.8M Details

People

David Hilbert
Executive Officer, Director
SEC Form D
Han Lee
Executive Officer
SEC Form D
Rami Elghandour
Executive Officer, Director
SEC Form D
Lance Thibault
Executive Officer
SEC Form D
Michelle Gilson
Executive Officer
SEC Form D
Christopher Heery
Executive Officer
SEC Form D
Ali Behbahani
Director
SEC Form D
Lewis T. Williams
Director
SEC Form D
Jill Carroll
Director
SEC Form D
Roger Sawhney
Director
SEC Form D
Hugo Beekman
Director
SEC Form D
Tiba Aynechi
Director
SEC Form D
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Kite Pharma over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
72
Postings analysed
60
Stack modernity
62/100
Languages
Python12%
SQL10%
SAS7%
Bash2%
Databases
Oracle3%
MS SQL2%
PostgreSQL2%
Cloud & platforms
GCP22%
Power BI7%
Azure3%
Tableau3%
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Connections

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Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Same group
1
Shared investors
4
Same group1
Gilead SciencesLikely
gilead.com
Same ATS account
seen Oct 29, 2026 · evidence: 1 Show evidence
Shared investors4
Two RiverVia a fund
8 portfolio companies: Vida Ventures, Cookiedatabase.org, Symbiotic Capital and 5 more
PontifaxVia a fund
55 portfolio companies: Climb Bio, CadenSee, Crystalys Therapeutics - Passionate. Dedicated. We improve lives. and 52 more
LG Technology VenturesVia a fund
95 portfolio companies: BigHat Biosciences, Tandem Health, Peak Energy and 92 more
NEAVia a fund
672 portfolio companies
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
11
Hiring now
11
Countries
2
Busiest office
Santa Monica
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Santa Monica United States
HQ
US - CA - Santa Monica
19 open roles 42 posted in 90 days 37% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $192k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Science & Research, Biotech
Santa Monica, CA 90404
seen since Aug 2026 company site, job postings
El Segundo United States
Corporate office
US - CA - El Segundo
20 open roles 37 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $203k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Biotech, Operations
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Foster City United States
Regional office
US - CA - Foster City
13 open roles 31 posted in 90 days 8% engineering 200-500 est. staff $240k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Biotech, Analytics
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Thousand Oaks United States
Corporate office
US - CA - Foster City
13 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 8% engineering 200-500 est. staff $236k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Biotech, Analytics
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Hoofddorp Netherlands
Plant / site
NL - Hoofddorp
4 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, QA, Biotech
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Frederick United States
Regional office
US - MD - Frederick
2 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $104k Avg Salary
hires for HR, Education
9021 Bennett Creek Blvd, Frederick, MD 21704 USA
seen since Jul 2026 company site, job postings
Parsippany United States
US - NJ - Parsippany
2 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $308k Avg Salary
hires for HR
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Philadelphia United States
US - PA - Philadelphia (IBT)
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $97k Avg Salary
hires for Biotech
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
New York United States
US - US - offsite
1 open roles 10-50 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Jul 2026 job postings
Minneapolis United States
US - US - offsite
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Portland United States
US - US - offsite
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Earlier presence
Oceanside, United States 4 open roles · last posting Oct 2026
Los Angeles, United States 1 open roles · last posting Oct 2026
London, United Kingdom 1 open roles · last posting Oct 2026