Director, Digital Product Management

Career Category

Information Systems

Job Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Director, Digital Product Management

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will focus on ensuring successful progression of high value AI and other technology initiatives, placing a strong emphasis on acceleration to value within Amgen’s Technology Innovation Lab, part of AI & Data function. This role will report to the Executive Director, Technology Strategy & Innovation and will work with various multi-functional partners as well as external collaborators and play a pivotal role in driving value towards Amgen’s AI strategic imperatives and digital transformation, ensuring timely and effective delivery.

This Director position will:

• Lead Product Ownership for AI and Technology Solutions: Act as the Product Owner within an Agile framework, ensuring that AI and technology products meet the needs of collaborators and align with the organization’s strategic goals. This includes defining the vision, roadmap, and priorities for the AI portfolio.
• Bridge Technical and Business Strategy: Serve as a key liaison between cross-functional teams, including Business, ATMOS, and external partners. Translate business needs into technical requirements and prioritize initiatives to enhance impact.
• Facilitate AI Initiative Progression: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of AI and machine learning initiatives, ensuring alignment with process standards and timely delivery.
• Champion Value Acceleration and Scalability: Lead initial scaling process for AI products aligned with Amgen’s scaling operating model, implementing standard methodologies in product and platform scaling to ensure AI solutions are enterprise-ready.
• Develop Strategic Insights: Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the technology landscape as applied to relevant initiatives, and provide guidance on technology identification, selection, and roadmap
• Navigate Project Hurdles: Actively identify and resolve issues and risks, ensuring seamless progression and continuity across AI projects.
• Master User Adoption: Maintain deep understanding of end user needs, translated into optimal feature prioritization as well as change management strategy and execution to drive maximum, sustained adoption of technology
• Communicate with Transparency: Represent projects and deliver insights to key collaborators (e.g., Technology Innovation Lab, ATMOS Governance, etc.) to ensure transparency, alignment, and understanding of project status, priorities, and impact.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The strategic professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of technology and/or product management experience
• Masters degree and 8 years of technology and/or product management experience
• Bachelor degree and 10 years of technology and/or product management experience

In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 4 years experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above

Preferred Qualifications:

• Aligns Product Vision with Business and Technical Requirements: Translates organizational goals into clear product requirements, ensuring alignment between technical capabilities and business objectives.
• Foundational Technical Competencies: Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas—data science, machine learning, coding (Python, R, or similar), or MLOps. Ability