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# Director - Safety Strategy at Veeva Systems

- **Company:** Veeva Systems
- **Location:** Shanghai, China
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/veeva/3e6d2384-418b-4a52-85ca-ac556104675e

## Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

## The Role

As Director, Safety Strategy, you’ll lead the expansion of Veeva’s Safety business across China — helping Pharmacovigilance modernize case intaking, processing, safety submission, analyzing, signal detection and safety operations through a unified, cloud-based platform. We’re looking for a strategic, customer-facing leader who understands the realities of Pharmacovigilance business in pharmaceutical sector. You’ll connect the dots between product, marketing, sales, and services to shape a clear vision for digital transformation in Safety business — and turn that vision into measurable growth. In this role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor and industry thought leader, building executive relationships, guiding customers on their journey to modernization, and positioning Veeva Safety as the category-defining solution for next-generation lab management.

## What You'll Do

- Drive growth for Veeva’s Safety solutions and increase market share in China.
- Provide Pharmacovigilance expertise to capture business opportunities across the product development lifecycle
- Develop localized messaging and marketing strategies to drive adoption of Safety applications for new and existing customers
- Direct resources across the customer lifecycle from sales to project delivery and beyond to ensure success in the market
- Present at industry conferences, lead webinars, and author articles for industry publications

## Requirements

- 10+ years of experience working in or consulting for the Pharmacovigilance department of a life sciences company or Pharmacovigilance related solution company (Argus, ArisG, PV related solutions)
- Mastery of NMPA GVP Regulations & Global (MRCT) Compliance.
- Proven track record in advising customers on the adoption of SaaS/Cloud solutions, specifically helping them navigate the transition to modern Safety technologies
- Confident in presenting to and influencing senior Safety, Medical and R&D executives to shape modernization strategies
- A results-oriented leader with a “founder mindset” to drive outcomes, build a business from scratch

#LI-Director

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.

## About Veeva Systems

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Veeva Systems builds the industry cloud for life sciences — cloud software, AI, industry-specific data, and consulting that help pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies bring therapies to market faster.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: VEEV), converted to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) in February 2021 — the first public company to do so
- **Headquarters**: Pleasanton, California, USA (4280 Hacienda Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Peter Gassner and Matt Wallach

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Life sciences technology / healthcare IT — serving R&D, clinical, regulatory, quality, safety, and commercial functions
- **Target customers**: B2B enterprise — pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies; over 1,000 customers globally
- **Mission/purpose**: "Building the Industry Cloud for Life Sciences" — helping the industry become more efficient and effective so it can focus on creating quality products in shorter time frames while maintaining compliance

## Products & Services
- **Veeva Vault Platform**: The core cloud platform with applications for Clinical, Regulatory, Quality, and Safety — consolidating critical processes in one central system to accelerate study timelines, streamline regulatory processes, and unify quality and safety operations.
- **Veeva AI**: Agentic AI added to the Veeva Vault platform, with deep, industry-specific agents for Veeva applications — designed to connect sponsors, sites, patients, and regulators more effectively and increase industry productivity.
- **Commercial Solutions**: Applications, data, and analytics for marketing and commercial teams to maximize campaign performance.
- **Consulting Services**: Business consulting alongside software, data, and AI to support customers' most critical business processes from R&D through commercialization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Publicly traded (NYSE: VEEV); specific market cap not stated in cited sources.
- **Key Metric**: 975+ customers (careers site) / 1,000+ customers (corporate site); close to 8,000 employees at end of fiscal 2026.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not disclosed in cited sources; as a public company with an extensive partner ecosystem supporting its cloud solutions.
- **Growth Signals**: Added a net 637 employees in fiscal 2026, ending the year with close to 8,000 employees; launched Veeva AI as a major portfolio expansion; has grown steadily "without the need for significant layoffs historically"; product hubs span Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Industry-specific depth**: Unlike generic enterprise software, Veeva is built exclusively for the highly regulated life sciences industry, covering the full value chain from clinical through commercial.
- **Public Benefit Corporation structure**: Legally obligated to balance shareholder interests with customers, employees, partners, the life sciences industry, and communities — a durable differentiator in talent and customer trust.
- **Scale and switching costs**: Deep integration across R&D, quality, regulatory, and commercial workflows for over 1,000 customers creates significant lock-in.
- **No non-compete agreements**: Veeva does not require employees to sign non-competes and has taken legal action to fight their unfair use — a strong cultural and recruiting advantage.
- **Clear values in priority order**: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, Speed.

## Strategic Focus
- **Industry cloud expansion**: Continuing to build out the full industry cloud — software, AI, data, and consulting — to become "essential to and appreciated by" the life sciences industry.
- **Veeva AI rollout**: Making agentic AI a transformative layer across the Vault platform to increase innovation and productivity from drug development through commercialization.
- **High-quality job creation**: Investing in people with tech-enabled hiring tools, manager training (with direct CEO involvement), and fair, flexible employment — while maintaining steady, measured growth without significant layoffs.
- **Long-term durable growth**: Operating as a PBC with a commitment to the life sciences industry's critical functions.

## Why Work Here
- **Work Anywhere policy**: Employees can work from home or the office on any given day; product teams are organized in regional hubs (Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, Toronto) with regular in-person collaboration.
- **Culture and values**: Collaborative environment where employees are "treated with respect" and supported to "captain their own ship" toward growth; values are explicitly prioritized: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, Speed.
- **Giving back**: 1% Veeva Giving program — each employee receives an amount equal to 1% of their base salary annually to donate to non-profits of their choice; giving is entirely employee-driven.
- **Equity for employees**: Equity program designed so the vast majority of employees participate and benefit financially in the company's growth.
- **No non-compete clauses**: Employees are free to work where they choose, and the company actively fights unfair non-compete practices in the industry.
- **Stability with growth**: "Measured and thoughtful" hiring that has historically avoided significant layoffs, with net headcount growth of 637 in fiscal 2026.
- **Meaningful work**: Directly supports life sciences companies in their mission to improve and extend life.

## Sources
1. [veeva.com](https://www.veeva.com/)
2. [careers.veeva.com](https://careers.veeva.com/)
3. [careers.veeva.com — Why Veeva](https://careers.veeva.com/why-veeva/)
4. [veeva.com — Corporate Citizenship](https://www.veeva.com/corporate-citizenship/)
5. [2026 Public Benefit Corporation Report (PDF)](https://www.veeva.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-PBC-Report.pdf)

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