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You will serve on cross-functional CMC teams and develop comprehensive CMC development plans that support clinical development. This position is integral to the advancement of Cytokinetics’ growing portfolio of drug candidates.\nIn addition to technical leadership responsibilities, this role may have people leadership responsibilities, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, talent development, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing team environment.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nLead formulation and process development activities for early- and late-stage clinical candidates, ensuring alignment with overall development timelines and goals.\n\nLead strategic planning for formulation development, identifying risks, proposing mitigation strategies, and enabling efficient progression to clinical and commercial stages.\n\nAccountable for formulation and process development activities and technical oversight of clinical drug product manufacturing at contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), including management and approval of documentation, planning, scheduling, execution, and person-in-plant support (when required).\n\nProvide coaching, mentorship, and development support to team members as applicable, fostering scientific excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.\n\nSupport employee performance management activities, including goal setting, development planning, and ongoing feedback, when serving in a people leadership capacity.\n\nDevelop and strengthen team capabilities by establishing methodologies, evaluation criteria, and best practices for experimental design, data interpretation, and decision-making.\n\nApply sound formulation development principles to solve complex product development challenges and enable robust, scalable processes.\n\nIdentify, evaluate, and implement innovative formulation technologies to enhance product performance and reduce development cycle time.\n\nProvide subject matter expertise to support global CMC regulatory strategies and cross-functional development plans.\n\nAuthor and review pharmaceutical development and manufacturing sections for clinical and commercial regulatory submissions.\n\nDesign, execute, and analyze laboratory studies to advance scientific understanding of formulation development and address technical challenges.\n\nPrepare technical protocols, reports, and documentation, ensuring high-quality data analysis, interpretation, and communication of results.\n\nContribute to external scientific visibility through publications, presentations, and participation in conferences.\n\nPartner with Legal/IP teams to support patent strategy and ensure appropriate protection of drug product innovations.\n\nBuild and maintain strong cross-functional collaborations with Chemical Development, Analytical Development, Quality, Regulatory, DMPK, and other stakeholders to support integrated program success.\n\nQualifications:\nAdvanced degree (Ph.D., M.S., or equivalent) in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related discipline.\n\nMinimum of 10 years of industry experience in formulation and process development for oral dosage forms, including demonstrated experience in cGMP environments.\n\nPrior people leadership experience, including coaching, mentoring, performance management, and employee development, is preferred.\n\nProven expertise in developing and advancing enabling formulations to improve solubility and bioavailability of poorly soluble compounds.\n\nDeep understanding of pharmaceutical sciences, with demonstrated hands-on experience in formulation development of new chemical entities and optimization of large-scale drug product manufacturing.\n\nStrong track record of cross-functional collaboration with CMC/Technical Operations, Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, and related disciplines.\n\nWorking knowledge of key analytical techniques, including HPLC, UV spectroscopy, dissolution testing, and solid-state characterization.\n\nProficiency in authoring technical reports and CMC sections of regulatory submissions.\n\nDemonstrated ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership, with strong executive presence and the ability to represent the function in high-level forums.\n\nStrong leadership, coaching, and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop talent and foster collaborative working relationships.\n\nPay Range:\nIn the U.S., the hiring pay range for fully qualified candidates is $232,110 - $270,795 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.Our employees come from different backgrounds, and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles, but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at Cytokinetics and believe you can add value to our team, we would love to hear from you.\nPlease review our General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) policy PRIOR to applying.\nOur passion is anchored in robust scientific thinking, grounded in integrity and critical thinking. We keep the patient front and center in all we do - all actions and decisions are in service of the patient and their caregivers. We champion integrity, ethics, doing the right thing, and being our best selves.\nFraud Warning: How to Identify Impersonated Cytokinetics Job Postings and Offers\nRecently, there have been fraudulent employment offers being sent to candidates on behalf of Cytokinetics. Please be advised that all legitimate offers from Cytokinetics will come directly from our official email domain (Cytokinetics.com) and will only be made after completing a formal interview process.\nHere are some ways to check for authenticity:\nWe do not conduct job interviews through non-standard text messaging applications\n\nWe will never request personal information such as banking details until after an official offer has been accepted and verified\n\nWe will never request that you purchase equipment or other items when interviewing or hiring\n\nIf you are unsure about the authenticity of an offer, or if you receive any suspicious communication, please contact us directly at \n\nPlease visit our website at: www.cytokinetics.com\nCytokinetics is an Equal Opportunity Employer","description_format":"text","description_chars":7240,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Biotechnology","Health Care","Biologics & Biosimilars"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T19:55:28Z"}],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.345,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":108,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["conf:7","stale_co","urgency","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":270795,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cytokinetics-director-formulations","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cytokinetics-director-formulations.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-29T04:30:22Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4257,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":743,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-30T00:00:00Z"}}}