---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-002851"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZYME"
cik: "0001937653"
company_name: "Zymeworks Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T03:32:21.592146+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Zymeworks amends CEO employment to allow UK-based work, removes Vancouver relocation requirement

## Summary
- CEO Kenneth Galbraith's principal place of employment changed to UK home, no longer required to relocate to Vancouver or Seattle.
- Company will reimburse travel and lodging for one trip per year for Galbraith and immediate family to Vancouver/Seattle.
- Company will continue to secure and pay rental costs for temporary housing in Vancouver, grossed up for tax withholding.
- Amendment dated January 3, 2024; effective immediately.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-002851
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZYME
- cik: 0001937653
- company_name: Zymeworks Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1937653/000119312524002851/0001193125-24-002851-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1937653/000119312524002851/d657602d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-002851.txt

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