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For more than 35 years, we’ve 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 world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.\nEvery member of Gilead’s 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 we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.\nWe 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.\nJob Description\nThe Associate Director, Digital Asset Management (DAM) leads the strategy, product vision, governance, operations, and continuous evolution of Gilead's enterprise, global DAM capability for commercial content. The role ensures that approved digital content and assets are governed, discoverable, reusable, compliant, and scalable across global teams and affiliates.\nAs the product owner for DAM, the Associate Director defines the roadmap and operating model while partnering with Commercial Operations, Legal, Regulatory, IT, Data and AI, Procurement, and affiliate stakeholders. The role advances DAM from a content repository into a strategic content foundation that enables global-to-local reuse, AI-assisted content creation, automated MLR prechecks and autonomous workflows.\nThe Associate Director is a people leader responsible for building, coaching, and managing a high-performing team of content librarians who oversee metadata quality, taxonomy, asset stewardship, platform support, and service delivery.\nKey Responsibilities\nStrategy and Product Leadership\nDefine and execute the enterprise commercial DAM vision, strategy, roadmap, objectives, and measurable business outcomes.\nServe as the business product owner for DAM, translating business needs into prioritized capabilities, investments, requirements, and backlog decisions.\nAlign DAM with the broader content supply chain, Veeva Vault PromoMats, rights management, localization, and AI roadmaps.\nEvaluate emerging DAM capabilities, content intelligence frameworks, semantic search, generative AI, and automation capabilities for responsible enterprise adoption.\nAI and Content Automation Enablement\nEstablish DAM as a trusted source of approved, reusable, and machine-readable content for enterprise AI applications.\nDefine the metadata, taxonomy, content relationships, claims associations, rights information, and governance needed for AI-assisted content creation, retrieval, reuse, and localization.\nPartner with Legal, Regulatory, AI, and technology teams to implement appropriate controls, traceability, and guardrails for generated or adapted content.\nEnable AI-assisted MLR prechecks for approved claims and references, content consistency, expiration, required statements, rights restrictions, and market-specific requirements.\nMeasure the impact of automation on content cycle time, first-time-right quality, reuse, reviewer effort, and compliance.\nDAM Operations and Governance\nEstablish global standards for metadata, taxonomy, naming conventions, asset relationships, lifecycle management, retention, and content stewardship.\nEnsure assets are accurately classified, searchable, reusable, current, and compliant with applicable promotional content, legal, records, and digital rights requirements.\nDevelop scalable service delivery processes for asset ingestion, metadata application, quality control, publishing, localization, reuse, expiration, and archival.\nLead governance forums with agency partners and marketing stakeholders that oversee priorities, standards, risks, exceptions, dependencies, and cross-functional decisions.\nPlatform and Cross-Functional Leadership\nPartner with IT and platform teams to deliver DAM enhancements, integrations, migrations, releases, and roadmap priorities.\nDefine system-of-record responsibilities and reliable data flows across DAM, Veeva Vault PromoMats, authoring, review, localization, rights, CRM, web, media, and channel platforms.\nLead business requirements, backlog prioritization, user acceptance testing, release readiness, adoption, and post-launch optimization.\nBuild trusted partnerships across global and affiliate teams, agencies, procurement, and external service providers.\nPeople, Service, and Vendor Leadership\nLead, coach, and develop a team of DAM professionals and content librarians, establishing clear goals, accountabilities, development plans, and performance expectations.\nOversee content librarianship, metadata stewardship, asset quality, taxonomy maintenance, user support, and operational service delivery.\nPlan team capacity and capabilities to support business growth, affiliate onboarding, increasing content volumes, and new technology-enabled use cases.\nManage strategic suppliers and service providers, including service levels, quality, cost, capacity, risk, and continuous improvement.\nLead organizational change management, communications, training, and champion networks to increase DAM adoption and consistent ways of working.\nKey Leadership Competencies\nEnterprise and portfolio mindset with the ability to balance global scale, affiliate needs, compliance, user experience, and long-term value.\nData-driven decision-making and a strong focus on measurable outcomes.\nAbility to mobilize cross-functional teams, navigate ambiguity, and resolve complex dependencies.\nCommitment to developing people, building inclusive teams, and creating a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.\nMeasures of Success\nExecuting the DAM strategic vision and roadmap through successful deployment and adoption of new capabilities that advance content operations, AI enablement, and global-to-local content strategies.\nEnabling AI readiness and automation by establishing DAM as the foundational content layer for AI-powered content creation, personalization, content reuse, and automated MLR prechecks.\nDriving DAM adoption and business value across global brands, affiliates, agencies, and content teams by establishing DAM as the trusted enterprise platform for content storage, discovery, reuse, and activation.\nDelivering measurable cost savings through increased content reuse, reduced duplication, and decreased reliance on agencies and external partners for adapted and derivative content creation.\nStrengthening compliance and governance by ensuring traceability of assets, claims, rights, licensing, and content lifecycles, reducing risk and supporting compliant content creation and reuse.\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor's Degree and Ten Years' Experience\nOR\nMasters' Degree and Eight Years' Experience\nOR\nPhD / PharmD and Two Years' Experience\nPreferred Qualifications:\n10 or more years of relevant experience in Digital Asset Management, Commercial or Marketing Operations, Content Operations, Product Management, or a related field.\n5 or more years of people leadership experience, including responsibility for team development, performance management, and delivery through direct reports and matrixed teams.\nDeep expertise in DAM, metadata, taxonomy, content lifecycle management, digital rights, and enterprise content governance.\nDemonstrated experience managing enterprise technology products or platforms from strategy and roadmap development through implementation, adoption, and value realization.\nExperience with Veeva Vault PromoMats and regulated promotional content environments required.\nUnderstanding of claims and references, localization, global-to-local workflows, semantic search, generative AI, and workflow design & automation.\nStrong executive communication, business acumen, change management, vendor management, and ability to influence across a complex global organization.\nPeople Leader Accountabilities:\nCreate Inclusion - knowing the business value of diverse teams, modeling inclusion, and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.\nDevelop 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 feedback and insight needed to grow, develop and realize their purpose.\nEmpower 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\nThe salary range for this position is: $195,670.00 - $253,220.00. Gilead considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation, including experience, qualifications, and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role), paid time off, and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans*.For additional benefits information, visit:\nhttps://www.gilead.com/careers/compensation-benefits-and-wellbeing\n* Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.\nFor jobs in the United States:\nGilead Sciences Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive work environment comprised of diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Employment decisions regarding recruitment and selection will be made without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, geneticinformation or characteristic, gender identity and expression, veteran status, or other non-job related characteristics or other prohibited grounds specified in applicable federal, state and local laws. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants who require accommodation in the job application process may contact  for assistance.\nFor more information about equal employment opportunity protections, please view the 'Know Your Rights' poster.\nNOTICE: EMPLOYEE POLYGRAPH PROTECTION ACT\nYOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT\nGilead Sciences will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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