Director, Talent Acquisition: Global Employer Brand & Talent Attraction Lead

Director, Talent Acquisition: Global Employer Brand & Talent Attraction Lead 

The Company: 

At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. 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.   

We empower our leaders to step up, share ideas, listen, learn, and lead. We’re welcoming bright, diverse, and imaginative minds; we’re nurturing them to foster an environment of inclusion and growth where innovation is encouraged. We expect our people leaders to model that environment, and to focus on creating inclusion, developing talent, and enabling teams.  

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. Join Gilead and help create possible, together.   

The Opportunity: 

Reporting to the Gilead Vice President Global Talent Acquisition, the Director Global Employer Brand will be the strategic employer brand expert across the enterprise, setting the global employer branding and content strategy to ensure competitive positioning in a highly competitive talent market. The Brand Director will hold responsibility for designing and leading all aspects of Gilead’s global employer brand strategy, recruitment marketing, communications & design such as Gilead’s reputation as an employer, and our value proposition to our employees and prospective employees. With a savviness for employer brand marketing, you will use advertising and marketing to articulate Gilead’s EVP in a way that resonates externally to attract talent and partnering internally to retain the right talent. The Brand Director is will be an individual contributor leading teams, initiatives and projects across the matrix. 

This is an onsite role based at our Foster City, CA campus (three days onsite and two days offsite.

The Role: 

The Employer Brand Director will: 

• Define, develop and evolve the employer branding framework and the brand segmentation (including Kite EVP) and go-to-market tools, aligning the approach with various HR & talent functions, brand and Public Affairs and key business units and leaders. 
•  Lead targeted global recruitment marketing campaigns and equip local teams with the skills, tools and guardrails to create and drive best in class campaigns. 
•  Design and implement the global social media ecosystem for Talent Acquisition and establish the Gilead digital footprint for recruitment marketing, drawing upon best practice knowledge, experience and collaboration with external recruitment branding partner. 
•  Manage the creative design, communications and embedding of toolkits, templates, guidance and assets for global and local teams, ensuring impactful and consistent execution of brand experience & messaging. 
•  Partner with Public Affairs on guidelines and governance around the creation and maintenance of careers websites, Talent Acquisition social media channels and recruitment campaign microsites. 
•  Collaborate with various internal stakeholders on the effectiveness, design and communication of program materials and collateral that impact key moments that matter in the employee journey in alignment with our EVP. 
•  Act as a trend-spotter and influencer in innovative employer brand strategy and design 
•  Define and consistently measure KPIs for employer branding and recruitment marketing effectiveness. 

Basic Qualifications 

Master’s Degree and 12+ years of related experience 

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