Senior Director, Launch Excellence

About the role

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 Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, and HR into a cohesive execution model. The leader establishes launch governance, maintains the roadmap as the single source of truth, and drives accountability to milestones, deliverables, and critical path across functions. Operating at the center of the launch, this role drives cross-functional alignment, accelerates decision-making, and ensures risks are proactively identified and mitigated. The position also embeds operational excellence through structured processes, tools, and frameworks that enable execution discipline, speed, and scalability. In close partnership with Finance and HR, this role ensures alignment of budgets, resource allocation, and organizational readiness, including hiring, onboarding, training, and performance alignment. The role serves as the central hub for launch execution, ensuring seamless coordination from pre-launch through post-launch performance tracking and continuous improvement. This position is critical to delivering a successful commercial launch outcome, advancing patient access, and establishing a repeatable launch capability for future pipeline assets.

Location: Remote

Essential Functions

• Integrated Launch Planning & Ownership
• • Owns the integrated US launch plan for cretostimogene, encompassing brand strategy, HCP and patient engagement, omnichannel activation, field readiness, and operational execution
  • Owns and maintains the end-to-end launch plan, including milestones, dependencies, risks, and critical path across all functions
  • Maintains the launch roadmap as the single source of truth, ensuring alignment across Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Finance and HR
  • Ensures full integration of financial plans, resource allocation, and workforce readiness into the launch plan
• Launch Governance & Execution Leadership
• • Establishes and leads launch governance forums, including core team, cross-functional working teams, and executive updates, with clear escalation pathways
  • Drives cross-functional alignment, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities, and interdependencies
  • Holds teams accountable to commitments, timelines, and deliverables, reinforcing a culture of ownership and execution discipline
  • Serves as the central orchestrator of launch execution, ensuring no gaps across functions
• Risk Management, Prioritization & Decision Support
• • Identifies, tracks, and mitigates key launch risks, including supply, access, regulatory, financial, and field readiness challenges
  • Proactively surfaces risks and develops mitigation and contingency plans • Forces prioritization and trade-off decisions when cross-functional objectives conflict, ensuring alignment to enterprise goals
  • Supports leadership decision-making by providing clear framing of options, risks, and impacts
• Day 1 Readiness & Field Execution
• • Ensures Day 1 launch readiness across field force, materials, systems, and operational processes
  • Coordinates field readiness, including hiring alignment, training, tools, deployment planning, and execution support in partnership with Commercial and HR
  • Partners with Marketing and Market Access to ensure operational readiness of campaigns, materials, and access pathways
  • Aligns field execution plans with broader launch strategy and timelines
• Cross-Functional Integration
• • Drives alignment across Commercial, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, and HR
  • Partners with Finance to ensure budget alignment, launch spend visibility, and resource prioritization
  • Partners with HR to ensure organizational readiness, including hiring waves, onboarding, training, and incentive alignment
  • Ensures all functions operate within a cohesive, integrated launch model
• Supply, Access & Operational Alignment
• • Aligns supply, distribution, and patient support readiness with commercial timelines and demand expectations
  • Ensures coordination between manufacturing, distribution, and access strategies to support seamless product availability
  • Identifies and resolves operational bottlenecks that could impact launch execution
• Performance Tracking & Continuous Improvement
• • Defines, tracks, and reports launch readiness KPIs and execution metrics to senior leadership
  • Establishes post-launch performance tracking frameworks and dashboards
  • Integrates insights from market research, field feedback, and competitive intelligence into execution adjustments
  • Drives continuous improvement, capturing lessons learned to enhance future launches and operational capabilities
• Communication, Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement
• • Serves as the central hub for launch status, providing clear, consistent communication to executives and functional leaders
  • Delivers concise, transparent updates on progress, risks, and key decisions
  • Ensures alignment and engagement across all stakeholders through structured communication cadence
  • Supports executive forums with data-driven insights and recommendations
• External Partner & Vendor Management
• • Oversees external partners and vendors supporting launch execution
  • Ensures alignment of external activities with internal priorities, timelines, and quality standards
  • Manages vendor performance to ensure delivery against launch objectives
• Launch Excellence & Operational Capability Building
• • Implements launch excellence frameworks, tools, and best practices to improve execution discipline
  • Embeds operational excellence (OPEX) principles, driving efficiency, consistency, and scalability
  • Builds repeatable launch capabilities to support future indications and pipeline expansion
  • Promotes a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement aligned with CG Oncology Values.

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

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Total Rewards

CG Oncology offers very competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards, helping to support and reward our global team of high-performing employees focused on developing bladder-saving therapeutics for patients afflicted with bladder cancer.

• HIGHLY COMPETITIVE SALARIES   
• ANNUAL PERFORMANCE/MERIT REVIEWS
• ANNUAL PERFORMANCE BONUSES
• EQUITY
• SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Well-Being Benefits

In addition to our Total Rewards, CG Oncology offers a variety of Well-Being Benefits to meet the majority of the needs of our unique and growing workforce.  These benefits are designed to support our team to achieve a healthy balance between work and their personal lives to remain refreshed, engaged, and creating an environment where each person can find a deeper meaning and purpose in their work.

Well-Being Benefits eligibility begins the 1st of the month after hire.  While a majority of these benefits are for our US-based workforce, we continue to assess comparable levels of benefits for our international team members that are aligned with country-specific regulations and their national programs offered.

• FULLY REMOTE WORK ENVIRONMENT
• REST AND RECHARGE BENEFITS - Unlimited Flexible Time Off
• HOLIDAYS –In 2026 we will observe 14 holidays
• RETIREMENT – 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
• ILLNESS & DISABILITY PROTECTION – Company Paid LTD Coverage + Voluntary Plans
• LIFE INSURANCE – Company Paid 1 x base salary + Voluntary Plans
• ADDITIONAL EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS – Voluntary Legal, Pet, Plus More

CG Oncology is an Equal Opportunity Employer:

All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.  At CG Oncology, we are building a community of intelligent and passionate team members that share our Vision, Mission and Values, and while the biotechnology space can feel limited in BIPOC, non-binary and even female representation, we endeavor to make hiring decisions that will continue to grow and support our team in the direction of maintaining cultural diversity and sustainability.