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Executive Director, Optimization & Measurement, Targeting & Recommendation Product Suite

Genentech
relocation assistance
United States, California, South San Francisco
May 23, 2025
The Position

Why Genentech

We're passionate about delivering on Our Promise to improve the lives of patients and create healthier communities for all. We foster a culture of inclusivity, integrity and creativity while boldly pursuing answers to the world's most complex health challenges and transforming society.

Who We Are

Our Analytics & Insights team is dedicated to solving complex healthcare challenges and improving patient outcomes. This empowers business partners across Commercial, Medical, and Government Affairs (CMG) to make impactful decisions by leveraging data, analytics, and AI/ML to enable fast, targeted actions in rapidly evolving business contexts.

The team fosters a unified understanding of customers, actions, and outcomes by integrating analytics and insights seamlessly into CMG's evolving digital, data, and automation platforms, creating scalable solutions and eliminating silos.

You will work as a trusted, objective advisor and expert, recommending critical decisions and actions to be taken with credibility and a focus on driving measurable impact. You will be part of a diverse, inclusive team that reflects the world we serve, thriving in a welcoming culture built on collaboration and innovation.

This role will report to the Head of Analytics & Insights.

The Opportunity
The Executive Director for Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation Suite is a visionary and entrepreneurial leader who will set the strategic direction of our Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation Portfolios. As a pivotal team member, you will deliver innovative, scalable digital solutions across the enterprise. You'll drive product initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities to maximize business impact. Partnering with end-user activation groups, you'll capture business needs, implement cross-product strategies, and ensure successful product adoption.

  • Define, and be accountable for executing, a strategic roadmap for the Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation Product Suites, establishing and ensuring adherence to business product and technology policies and standards while collaborating with senior leadership and key stakeholders.

  • Set the strategic direction for the suite of Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation products, aligning with organizational priorities to maximize business impact and deliver innovative, scalable solutions across the enterprise..

  • Partner with the Field Analytics team to streamline national/regional-level analytics (e.g., targeting and call planning optimization, next best action, sizing, field effectiveness analysis and performance reporting), and prioritize high-impact use cases for product suites.

  • Develop measurement and optimization product strategies and roadmap (e.g., campaign effectiveness, omnichannel engagement analytics, and marketing ROI optimization).

  • Partner with the Data Science team and deploy machine learning models and AI solutions to supercharge analytics products.

  • Partner with the Informatics (IX) team to define the roadmap and prioritize the development of analytics products.

  • Partner with the Digital Experience, Field Analytics, Field, and other functional teams to define and deploy business analytics products that optimize omnichannel customer engagement.

  • Define and oversee the full lifecycle strategy for the Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation Suites from identifying and integrating new products to sunsetting legacy offerings, optimizing for suite performance and evolving marketing and business priorities.

  • Accountable for resource allocation and investments both in the near-term and long-term across the Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation suites of business products; work with other Suite Leads to make resourcing tradeoff decisions across all Analytics product suites.

Adoption Enablement, Experimentation & Performance Optimization

  • Serve as the executive champion for the Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation Suites, articulating its strategic value to senior stakeholders, influencing enterprise decision-making, achieving enterprise objectives, communicating value to stakeholders, and fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and excellence.

  • Partner with relevant Genentech Activation teams in order to develop a structured change management strategy, inclusive of stakeholder engagement, communication plans, and ongoing support.

  • Define hypotheses, design experiments, and conduct tests in collaboration with other IT, analytics, and product teams.

  • Set and track performance and adoption metrics across the business product suite, in partnership with Genentech Activation teams, including regularly reporting on efficiency gains and business impact.

Cross-Functional Leadership

  • Lead enterprise-wide initiatives to promote cross-product understanding and collect feedback through orchestrated rituals.

  • Collaborate with peers, VP and SVP level leaders across Genentech through regular cross-functional meetings to align external and internal business requirements, insights, and trends to refine the Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation Portfolio strategies & roadmaps.

  • Drive CMG cross-functional alignment, collaborating seamlessly with other leaders across Commercial, Medical, Access and Informatics to align business product strategies with business objectives, make necessary tradeoffs, ensure rapid product development, drive adoption, and track progress of the Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation Portfolios.

  • Ensure that Optimization & Measurement and Targeting & Recommendation business products are developed with an eye towards scaling the capabilities across Roche Pharma globally by working with counterparts in Global Product Strategy, IX, and elsewhere.

Governance & Compliance Partnership

  • Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and policies, upholding the integrity of Genentech's activities and product stewardship.

People & Culture

  • Attract, lead, and develop highly-connected, highly-motivated and high-performing teams.

  • Provide guidance, training, and career development opportunities for team members.

  • Drive a culture of employee engagement and accountability through performance management, incentive alignment, and rewards and recognition of all team members.

Minimum Candidate Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in business, healthcare, customer experience, or a related field.

  • 12+ years of experience in customer or product-focused roles, with a strong emphasis on targeting, segmentation, next best action, operational efficiency, performance tracking, and/or business optimization

  • Strong leadership and team management abilities, with experience in coaching, developing, and inspiring talent

  • Proven ability to own and manage the full product lifecycle, including visioning, roadmap creation, execution, and impact measurement.

  • Understanding of how to design and evolve user & customer-centric experiences to drive customer satisfaction.

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with demonstrated success in facilitating cross-functional collaboration.

  • Proven success in building and scaling analytics platforms or products (dashboards, modeling pipelines, tools) and deploying at enterprise level.

  • Deep expertise in field analytics (e.g., targeting and call planning optimization, next best action, sizing, field effectiveness analysis and performance reporting).

  • Extensive experience in marketing ROI measurement and optimization (e.g., marketing mix modeling, channel mix optimization, resource allocation)

  • Experience in media (paid, owned, earned) analytics and digital analytics is a plus.

  • Proven track record of driving change management and user adoption in complex matrixed environments.

  • Extensive experience working with data science, machine learning, and AI teams and supercharge analytics capabilities and impact.

  • Experience working in an standard DevOps agile setting or bringing agile best-practice mentorship to the team

Preferred Qualifications & Experience

  • Advanced degree (e.g., MBA or related graduate-level qualification).

  • Experience with a focus on implementing product strategy, preferably in healthcare, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industries

  • Familiarity with industry best practices and benchmarks for customer experience design.

  • This position is based in South San Francisco, CA and relocation assistance is available

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of South San Francisco, CA is $227,500 - $422,500 USD Annual. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law. A discretionary annual bonus may be available based on individual and Company performance. This position also qualifies for the benefits detailed at the link provided below.

Benefits

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Genentech is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.

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