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Every 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.
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Job Description
The 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.
As 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.
The 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.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy and Product Leadership
Define and execute the enterprise commercial DAM vision, strategy, roadmap, objectives, and measurable business outcomes.
Serve as the business product owner for DAM, translating business needs into prioritized capabilities, investments, requirements, and backlog decisions.
Align DAM with the broader content supply chain, Veeva Vault PromoMats, rights management, localization, and AI roadmaps.
Evaluate emerging DAM capabilities, content intelligence frameworks, semantic search, generative AI, and automation capabilities for responsible enterprise adoption.
AI and Content Automation Enablement
Establish DAM as a trusted source of approved, reusable, and machine-readable content for enterprise AI applications.
Define the metadata, taxonomy, content relationships, claims associations, rights information, and governance needed for AI-assisted content creation, retrieval, reuse, and localization.
Partner with Legal, Regulatory, AI, and technology teams to implement appropriate controls, traceability, and guardrails for generated or adapted content.
Enable AI-assisted MLR prechecks for approved claims and references, content consistency, expiration, required statements, rights restrictions, and market-specific requirements.
Measure the impact of automation on content cycle time, first-time-right quality, reuse, reviewer effort, and compliance.
DAM Operations and Governance
Establish global standards for metadata, taxonomy, naming conventions, asset relationships, lifecycle management, retention, and content stewardship.
Ensure assets are accurately classified, searchable, reusable, current, and compliant with applicable promotional content, legal, records, and digital rights requirements.
Develop scalable service delivery processes for asset…