Executive Director, Talent Acquisition

Who we are

Kymera is a clinical‑stage biotechnology company pioneering the field of targeted protein degradation (TPD) to develop medicines that address critical health problems and have the potential to dramatically improve patients’ lives. Kymera is deploying TPD to address disease targets and pathways inaccessible with conventional therapeutics. Having advanced the first degrader into the clinic for immunological diseases, Kymera is focused on building an industry‑leading pipeline of oral small‑molecule degraders to provide a new generation of convenient, highly effective therapies for patients with these conditions.

Founded in 2016, Kymera has been recognized as one of Boston’s top workplaces for the past several years. For more information about our science, pipeline and people, please visit  or follow us on X (formerly Twitter) or Linked In.

• PIONEER:
  We are courageous, resilient and rigorous in our mission to improve patients’ lives through our revolutionary degrader medicines.
• COLLABORATE:
  We value trust + transparency from everyone. Our goals are shared, our decisions data‑driven and our camaraderie genuine.
• BELONG:
  We recognize our differences, inviting curiosity and inclusivity, so that our people are valued, seen, and heard.

This is not a seat‑warming role. The Executive Director, Talent Acquisition is a mission‑critical hire – the person who will build and own Kymera’s people engine through its most consequential growth phase yet. You’ll work directly with our SVP, People & Culture to architect workforce strategy for a company actively crossing the chasm from clinical to commercial readiness. You’ll own the full talent acquisition function – strategy and execution – leading a high‑performing team that is already delivering results.

The mandate: make it more proactive, more strategic, and more tightly connected to where the business is going.

The TA function has a very strong foundation, and your role will be to enable this team to continue to build a high‑performing company with top talent. Assess where we can create efficiencies, build value‑add initiatives to maximize impact and create strategies that align with our long‑term build.

Take clear, firm ownership of workforce planning – bringing rigor and proactivity to when, how, and who Kymera hires to deliver on its business objectives. Partner closely with People Partners to ensure alignment, while making sure the planning intelligence and hiring strategy is driven by Talent Acquisition.

• Own and lead the annual and rolling workforce planning process in close partnership with the SVP of People & Culture and senior business leaders.
• Create proactive pipelining strategies for Kymera’s most critical and hard‑to‑fill roles, including Medical Directors, late‑stage clinical profiles, and senior leadership succession, well before vacancies become urgent.
• Build forward‑looking commercial hiring playbooks to ensure the team is positioned to move fast when commercialization demands it.
• Develop trust‑based partnerships across all functions and levels; engage directly with leaders to anticipate talent needs rather than react to them.

Lead a talented TA team with the leadership presence that connects the team’s daily work to Kymera’s broader ambitions. Stay close to the work yourself: this role owns requisitions and maintains first‑hand visibility into candidate quality and experience.

• Manage, develop, and grow a strong, flexible TA team that scales to meet evolving hiring needs and organizational design requirements.
• Create the leadership layer that bridges the TA function and executive leadership.
• Evolve interview and assessment methodologies to support faster, more data‑driven, and more equitable talent decisions.
• Drive an exceptional candidate experience as a genuine extension of Kymera’s culture, embodying our values of Pioneer, Collaborate & Belong.

Build the intelligence layer that makes TA a strategic asset to the business, not just a function that fills roles.

• Establish an executive‑ready analytics and…