[Hiring] Executive Director, Digital Product Management @Amgen

Role Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. In this vital role, the Executive Director, Digital Product Management - Research will be the senior digital technology leader for Research. The Executive Director will translate Research strategy and portfolio priorities into a coherent technology, data and AI agenda that accelerates science, improves the quality and reuse of scientific data, and creates durable advantage in how Amgen discovers medicines.

As a member of the Research Leadership Team, the Executive Director will help transform how science is done, and shape investment priorities to ensure that digital technologies are actively moving the portfolio forward from disease understanding and target selection through molecule design and synthesis, and translational safety. Success would include evidence of better scientific decisions and faster experimental learning.

The Executive Director will own the technology environment for Research, including benchtop environment, electronic lab notebooks, scientific workflows, and the data products and platforms that connect Research disciplines. The successful candidate will lead a talented organization and serve as a trusted thought partner to scientific leaders, ensuring that Research teams have dependable, well-designed capabilities that enable better and faster science.

Responsibilities include:

• Research strategy, portfolio impact, and executive leadership
• Set and continuously evolve the multi-year Research Technology, Data & AI strategy in partnership with Research.
• Serve on the Research Leadership Team as a strategic advisor and decision-maker.
• Own portfolio prioritization and investment recommendations across the function.
• Establish clear outcomes, OKRs and value measures.
• Scientific technology, laboratory workflows, and data products
• Own the technology foundation that enables Research scientists to do their best work.
• Deliver reliable, scalable products that scientists want to use.
• Lead the modernization and integration of scientific data workflows.
• Build a coherent portfolio of governed, reusable data products.
• Advance digital capabilities across the Research portfolio.
• Ensure platforms and workflows are designed around scientist needs.
• Technology, data, and operating leadership
• Lead and develop a high-performing organization.
• Build strong partnerships with Research scientific leaders and external collaborators.
• Demonstrate robust technology investment discipline.
• Create a culture that combines scientific curiosity with accountability.
• Communicate strategy, investment decisions, performance, risks, and opportunities clearly to executive audiences.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree & 6 years of technology experience OR
• Master’s degree & 10 years of technology experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of technology experience AND
• 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience, including direct leadership of senior leaders.
• Experience leading technology, data, digital, informatics or computational capabilities in a research-intensive, life sciences environment.
• Scientific credibility that they can earn the trust of scientists.
• Understanding of drug discovery research lifecycle.
• Experience setting multi-year strategy in partnership with business functions.
• Experience in creating and scaling scientific data products.
• Technology and data judgment across cloud platforms, architecture, laboratory systems, data engineering, analytics, and vendor ecosystems.
• Ability to influence senior executives and lead through ambiguity.
• Executive communication and storytelling skills.
• Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical research or another highly regulated, technology-intensive environment strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan.
• A discretionary annual bonus program.
• Stock-based long-term incentives.
• Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns.
• Flexible work models where possible.