[Hiring] Senior Director, Launch Excellence @CG Oncology

Role Description

The Senior Director, Launch Excellence leads integrated launch planning and execution, serving as the central orchestrator across all functions to ensure full organizational readiness for Day 1 and beyond. This role owns the integrated U.S. launch plan for cretostimogene, aligning various departments into a cohesive execution model.

• Establishes launch governance and maintains the roadmap as the single source of truth.
• Drives accountability to milestones, deliverables, and critical path across functions.
• Ensures risks are proactively identified and mitigated.
• Embeds operational excellence through structured processes, tools, and frameworks.
• Ensures alignment of budgets, resource allocation, and organizational readiness in partnership with Finance and HR.
• Serves as the central hub for launch execution, ensuring seamless coordination from pre-launch through post-launch performance tracking and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, life sciences, business, or related field required.
• Ten (10) years of experience in pharmaceutical/biotech, including launch readiness, launch management, commercial operations, or product marketing.
• Demonstrated track record leading successful US product launches.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization without direct authority.
• Strong experience developing and managing integrated launch plans, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, and risk mitigation.
• Experience establishing governance, tracking execution, and reporting progress to senior leadership.
• Strong commercial foundation, including brand planning, HCP/patient segmentation, and launch execution.
• Experience translating strategy into operational execution, including Day 1 readiness and field readiness.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive alignment, and resolve competing priorities.
• Experience identifying and managing launch risks and driving mitigation plans.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, and Supply Chain.

Requirements

• Owns the integrated US launch plan for cretostimogene, encompassing brand strategy, HCP and patient engagement, omnichannel activation, field readiness, and operational execution.
• Maintains the launch roadmap as the single source of truth, ensuring alignment across various functions.
• Establishes and leads launch governance forums with clear escalation pathways.
• Identifies, tracks, and mitigates key launch risks.
• Ensures Day 1 launch readiness across field force, materials, systems, and operational processes.
• Drives alignment across Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, and HR.
• Aligns supply, distribution, and patient support readiness with commercial timelines and demand expectations.
• Defines, tracks, and reports launch readiness KPIs and execution metrics to senior leadership.
• Oversees external partners and vendors supporting launch execution.
• Implements launch excellence frameworks, tools, and best practices to improve execution discipline.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries.
• Annual performance/merit reviews.
• Annual performance bonuses.
• Equity.
• Special recognition.
• Fully remote work environment.
• Unlimited flexible time off.
• 14 observed holidays in 2026.
• 401K with 100% company Safe Harbor match up to 4% of base salary.
• Health (medical, dental, vision) – PPO & HDHP – Cigna/Principal.
• Health spending accounts - HSA (with annual company contribution), FSA, FSA-DC.
• Company paid LTD coverage + voluntary plans for illness & disability protection.
• Company paid life insurance 1 x base salary + voluntary plans.
• Additional exclusive benefits - voluntary legal, pet, plus more.