Senior Executive Assistant, Commercial

Senior Executive Assistant, Commercial

San Diego, CA

Are you ready to join a team committed to making a meaningful impact on cancer treatment through the discovery and development of precision medicines? At Kura Oncology, you have an opportunity to be a part of something bigger, with a lasting impact that you can be proud of.

At Kura Oncology, we are working to change the paradigm and improve the science of cancer treatment. As an organization, we strive to cultivate a diverse and talented professional culture driven to develop precision medicine therapeutics.

As we continue to build a leading biotech organization with a strong culture, a patient-focused mindset and a team focused on relentless execution, we are looking for innovative, passionate professionals to join us and make our vision a reality.

To succeed at Kura, you will need to have a demonstrated ability for excellence in drug discovery and development and a roll-up your sleeves attitude. The ideal candidate will possess a values-driven work style where integrity and grit drive all behaviors, decisions, and actions.

Essential Job Functions

The Senior Executive Assistant, Commercial is a highly trusted partner responsible for providing exceptional support to the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) and broader Commercial Leadership Team. This individual helps maximize leadership effectiveness through strong organization, judgment, discretion, and proactive coordination across the Commercial organization.

The successful candidate anticipates needs, manages competing priorities, facilitates communication and follow-through, and helps ensure leaders remain focused on the priorities that have the greatest impact on the business.

This individual is highly resourceful, technologically savvy, and comfortable leveraging technology, AI, and emerging tools to improve productivity and ways of working.

• Provide high-level executive support to the Chief Commercial Officer and administrative and coordination support to members of the Commercial Leadership Team.
• Strategically manage the CCO's complex and dynamic calendar, anticipating priorities, conflicts, preparation needs, and follow-up.
• Coordinate calendars and scheduling across Commercial leadership to facilitate effective decision-making, collaboration, and execution.
• Coordinate complex domestic and international travel, itineraries, logistics, and expenses for the CCO and Commercial leaders as needed.
• Plan and coordinate Commercial Leadership Team meetings, offsites, conferences, team meetings, and key Commercial events.
• Prepare meeting agendas, briefing materials, presentations, and other communications; ensure decisions, commitments, and action items are captured and tracked to completion.
• Help establish and maintain effective operating rhythms across the Commercial Leadership Team, including recurring meetings, planning activities, and key milestones.
• Identify and adopt technology, including appropriate AI-enabled tools and automation, to improve executive and Commercial team efficiency.
• Proactively identify scheduling conflicts, competing priorities, and potential obstacles and take appropriate action to resolve them.
• Support selected Commercial projects and initiatives, coordinating stakeholders, timelines, logistics, and deliverables as appropriate.
• Coordinate contracts, purchase orders, expenses, and other administrative processes in partnership with internal functions.
• Manage sensitive and confidential business and personnel information with exceptional discretion and sound judgment.
• Build strong relationships across Commercial, other functions, and the administrative team to enable effective collaboration and execution.

Job Specifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 8+ years of executive administrative experience, including experience supporting senior executives; biotech/pharmaceutical industry experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to be onsite in the San Diego office 2-3 times per week
• Exceptional organizational, project management, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate needs, manage multiple priorities, and operate independently in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Excellent judgment, discretion, emotional intelligence, professionalism, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong technological fluency with demonstrated curiosity and aptitude for adopting AI and emerging productivity tools.
• Resourceful, proactive, detail-oriented, and committed to delivering with excellence.
• Ability to work flexibly across time zones and changing priorities.

What Excellence Looks Like:

The exceptional Senior Executive Assistant creates executive leverage. They anticipate what the CCO and Commercial Leadership Team need, surface issues early, close open loops, and create organization and structure that allow leaders to operate more effectively.

They are proactive, highly resourceful, and continually look for smarter ways to work; including thoughtful use of technology, AI, and automation.

Success means the CCO and Commercial leaders are prepared, connected, organized, and able to spend their time on the work that creates the greatest value for patients and the Company.

The base range for a Senior Executive EA is $124,000 - $155,000. Individual pay may vary based on additional factors, including, and without limitation, job-related skills, experience, work location, and relevant education or training. Kura's compensation package also includes generous benefits, equity, and participation in an annual target bonus.

Kura's Values that are used for candidate selection and performance assessments:

• We work as one for patients
• We are goal-focused and deliver with excellence
• We are science-driven courageous innovators
• We strive to bring out the best in each other and ourselves

The Kura Package:

• Career advancement/ development opportunities
• Competitive comp package
• Bonus
• 401K + Employer contributions
• Generous stock options
• ESPP Plan
• 20 days of PTO to start
• 18 Holidays (Including Summer & Winter Break)
• Generous Benefits Package with a variety of plans available with a substantial employer match
• Paid Paternity/Maternity Leave
• In-Office Catered lunches
• Home Office Setup
• Lifestyle Spending Stipend
• Commuter Stipend (Boston Office)
• Regular employee social activities, including happy hours, monthly birthday celebrations, Kura Koffee Talks, and much more!

Kura Oncology is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering and developing innovative precision medicines to help patients with cancer lead better, longer lives.

Through our deep understanding of cancer biology and decades of experience in precision oncology, we are studying the underlying causes of treatment resistance. This enables us to design smart combination regimens with other cancer therapies to target tumors from multiple directions, with the goal of improving long-term clinical benefit.

Kura developed and is commercializing KOMZIFTI (ziftomenib), the FDA-approved once-daily, oral menin inhibitor for the treatment of adults with relapsed or refractory NPM1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia, and continues to pioneer advancements in menin inhibition and farnesyl transferase inhibition.

Kura Oncology is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.