Associate Director, New Product Strategy

How you’ll make an impact

• As a program core team member, own early commercial strategy for assigned programs.
• Develop disease and market landscapes covering patient journey, treatment paradigms, unmet needs, stakeholder decision drivers, and sources of market disruption.
• Partner with Clinical Development, Medical, Regulatory, Research, and Program Leadership to shape target product profiles and evidence-generation priorities that drive differentiation.
• Lead indication prioritization and sequencing, weighing scientific rationale, epidemiology, competitive intensity, feasibility, market access, and commercial attractiveness.
• Build market models, revenue forecasts, and risk-adjusted assessments to inform portfolio planning, investment decisions, and long-range planning.
• Design and run primary and secondary market research with physicians, payers, and patients; translate findings into decision-ready recommendations.
• Support evaluation of new targets, pipeline, lifecycle, and business development opportunities through integrated scientific and commercial assessment.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of competitors, mechanisms, clinical programs, and emerging scientific trends relevant to Kymera's portfolio.
• Identify key intelligence questions and competitive scenarios, distinguishing signal from noise and flagging implications for Kymera's programs.
• Deliver concise news-flow updates and landscape syntheses to program teams and leadership, interpreting what changed, why it matters, and what should follow.
• Attend key medical and scientific meetings to capture competitive data, synthesize in real time, and produce post-congress readouts.
• Use Kymera's AI-enabled intelligence tools to accelerate monitoring, triage, and synthesis, while maintaining rigorous source validation and traceability.
• Help improve CI processes, templates, taxonomies, and AI-supported workflows to deliver insights faster with less manual effort.
• Serve as a trusted strategic partner to program teams and functional leaders, bringing an external market and competitor lens into development decisions.
• Translate complex scientific, clinical, and financial information into crisp executive narratives and presentations.
• Frame ambiguous business questions, define the analytical approach, and drive projects to clear decisions.
• Contribute to Corporate Strategy priorities — portfolio strategy, long-range planning, investor analyses — as business needs evolve.

Skills and experience you’ll bring

• Advanced degree in a scientific or engineering discipline strongly preferred (e.g., PhD or MS in biology, immunology, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, bioengineering, chemical engineering, or a related field).
• 6+ years of relevant experience in biopharma strategy, new product planning, commercial strategy, competitive intelligence, market research, or life-sciences consulting; exceptional candidates with a PhD and somewhat fewer post-degree years may be considered.
• Strong preference for experience at a boutique life-sciences strategy consultancy, with hands-on responsibility for new product planning, indication strategy, market opportunity assessment, competitive intelligence, forecasting, and/or portfolio strategy engagements.
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly understand complex biology, mechanisms of action, clinical trial design, endpoints, and therapeutic landscapes and connect them to strategic and commercial implications.
• Fluency in primary and secondary market research and comfort managing external vendors and expert interviews.
• Experience building or critically evaluating patient-based forecasts, epidemiology models, scenario analyses, and commercial opportunity assessments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create concise, executive-ready PowerPoint materials and communicate effectively with scientific and senior business audiences.
• High level of proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint; strong comfort adopting AI-enabled research, synthesis, and knowledge-management tools and using them responsibly.
• Highly analytical, intellectually curious, organized, and proactive, with strong judgment and the ability to manage multiple evolving priorities in a small, fast-moving organization.

Compensation

• Anticipated base salary range: $195,000 – $275,000
• Eligibility for annual bonus, equity participation, and comprehensive benefits
• Actual salary based on a holistic evaluation of the specific role/level as well as each candidate’s depth of experience and the capabilities they bring to the position