Company Profile
Gilead Sciences
Company Overview
For more than 25 years, Gilead has built a culture of excellence. We are committed, hardworking and passionate about improving the lives of the patients who use our products. Our values – integrity, teamwork, accountability and excellence – are evident in everything we do.
Employees at Gilead challenge one another to ever higher standards and accomplishment. Gilead has attracted some of the sharpest minds in biotech and beyond, and the people who thrive in our culture are those who seek opportunities to do their best work beside others who share the same mission.
Being here matters. Together we deliver life-saving therapies to patients in need. With the commitment and drive you bring to the workplace every day, you will be part of a team that is changing the world and helping millions of people live healthier, more fulfilling lives.
Our worldwide staff of more than 6,000 people is a close community where you can see the tangible results of your contributions, where every individual matters, and everyone has a chance to enhance their skills through ongoing development.
Vision
To discover, develop and commercialize innovative therapeutics in the areas of unmet medical need that improve patient care.
Mission
To discover, develop and commercialize therapeutics that advance patient care, while challenging employees to make a difference and building a thriving worldwide enterprise.
Core Values
Integrity – Doing What’s Right
Teamwork – Working Together
Accountability – Taking Personal Responsibility
Excellence – Being Your Best
Focus
Our focus on advancing the care of patients through its research and development efforts directly impacts our relationships with physicians, patients and their caregivers, and our employees.
Physicians – we provide physicians with the resources to better care for their patients by rapidly and efficiently discovering and developing innovative therapeutics.
Patients and caregivers – we collaborate with patient advocates, design drugs to enhance treatment regimens and implement effective patient assistance programs to ensure our efforts help meet the needs of patients and their caregivers.
Employees – we promote team-work, accountability, integrity and excellence. Gilead provides opportunities for career growth, celebrates success and values employee commitment to making a difference in the lives of the patients we serve.
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Company History
Gilead Sciences was founded in 1987 in Foster City, California. In 25 years, Gilead has become a leading biopharmaceutical company with a rapidly expanding product portfolio, growing pipeline of investigational drugs and approximately 5,000 employees in offices across four continents. Today, our research and development effort is the largest it has ever been, with more than 75 Phase 2 and 3 clinical studies evaluating compounds with the potential to become the next generation of innovative therapies for HIV, hepatitis, serious respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic conditions, cancer and inflammation.
In 2013, Gilead’s annual revenues reached approximately $11.2 billion, and in 2009, BusinessWeek ranked Gilead #1 in its annual listing of the 50 Best-Performing Companies.
Benefits
ESPP plan, RSU's, on site gym and daycare, subsidized cafeteria, holiday shut down from Christmas to New Year's and a company culture of people passionate about improving the lives of others.