About the role

The Associate Director, Field Training is responsible for designing and delivering high-impact training programs that enable the commercial field organization to execute with excellence. This role serves as the strategic link between Commercial Leadership, Marketing, Medical, and the field-ensuring that all training is aligned, compliant, and directly tied to business outcomes. As CG Oncology prepares for launch and scale, this role will build and lead a best-in-class, modern training ecosystem that drives readiness, reinforces critical capabilities, and sustains long-term field performance in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Essential Functions

Field Training Strategy & Execution

• Develop and execute the enterprise field training strategy aligned to commercial priorities and launch readiness
• Translate brand and commercial strategies into field-facing curricula, learning journeys, and role-based programs
• Lead new hire onboarding and continuous learning across field roles
• Build capabilities across disease state, product, clinical, selling skills, and account management

Launch Readiness & Enablement

• Own training strategy and execution for product launches
• Partner with Marketing and Medical to ensure compliant and differentiated messaging
• Design and deploy certification programs and readiness assessments
• Identify and mitigate field readiness risks and gaps

Training Design, Innovation & Delivery

• Develop high-impact training content across formats
• Lead adoption of AI-enabled role play, simulations, and microlearning
• Own the commercial learning technology ecosystem, including Brainshark, Microsoft Copilot, CRM learning tools, Power BI dashboards, AI coaching platforms, and future learning technologies
• Ensure scalability and quality of training assets
• Deliver national and regional training programs

Field Feedback & Continuous Improvement

• Serve as voice of the field to inform training priorities
• Establish feedback loops with field leadership
• Optimize programs using performance data and insights

Performance Coaching & Manager Enablement

• Develop reinforcement strategies that sustain behavior change through manager coaching, AI insights, field observations, and ongoing performance support
• Design leadership development programs that strengthen Regional Business Director coaching effectiveness and accountability
• Partner with field leadership to create coaching resources that improve commercial execution and customer engagement

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Compliance, HR, and Commercial Operations
• Ensure alignment between training, brand strategy, and field execution
• Support POAs, national meetings, and commercial milestones
• Partner with the Head of Learning & Development to define the long-term vision, priorities, and evolution of the Commercial Learning function

Measurement, Governance & Impact

• Define and track training effectiveness metrics tied to business outcomes, not training completion alone
• Partner with Commercial Operations to link training to performance KPIs
• Develop launch readiness dashboards and performance reporting to monitor organizational preparedness
• Ensure MLR compliance for all training content
• Establish governance for consistent training deployment

Capability Building & Innovation Differentiation

• Drive behavior change and capability development
• Lead AI-enabled training innovation
• Support long-term capability building beyond launch

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred
• 8-12+ years pharma/biotech experience in training, sales, or commercial roles
• Ability to travel approximately 20% to support business meetings, clinical sites, conferences, and other company-related activities.
• Launch/pre-launch experience required
• Experience delivering field training at scale
• Oncology or specialty experience preferred
• Experience leveraging learning technologies, AI-enabled solutions, and performance analytics to improve field capability highly desirable
• Demonstrated success influencing cross-functional leaders without direct authority

Please note that CG Oncology does not accept unsolicited information and/or resumes from search firms or agencies for our job postings. Any resumes or client information submitted to our careers page or any employee of CG Oncology by any search firm or agency without an applicable contract in place will become the property of CG Oncology and no fee(s) will be paid.

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