Associate Product Owner - Digital Authoring Platform

Amgen Inc. (IR); Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen is seeking an experienced Feature Owner to bridge business needs and Agile delivery for an automated report authoring platform within the PDAP portfolio. You will define and refine features, coordinate with product owners, engineers, data teams, and stakeholders, and guide delivery with quality and clear acceptance criteria.

The role emphasizes translating requirements into actionable user stories, driving backlog refinement, and ensuring UAT and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience in Agile delivery, business analysis, feature ownership, product support, or a related role.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and process requirements.
• Experience working with digital products, analytics solutions, or data-centric platforms.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple work items and follow through on delivery details.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the product owner and stakeholders to clarify business needs and shape them into well-defined features and user stories.
• Own feature-level backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, and readiness for Agile sprint planning.
• Coordinate with engineering, data, QA, and business teams to resolve questions, dependencies, and delivery blockers.
• Support prioritization decisions by surfacing tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies at the feature level.
• Participate in solution discussions to ensure business requirements are translated accurately into implementable outcomes.
• Support UAT planning, business validation, and release readiness activities.
• Track feature progress, risks, and decisions and communicate status clearly to stakeholders.
• Help document workflows, business rules, and process changes associated with delivered features.
• Gather user feedback and operational insights to inform continuous improvement.
• Contribute to team ways of working, documentation standards, and Agile best practices.

Skills

Agile delivery

Business analysis

Feature ownership

Product support

Stakeholder communication

Backlog management

Issue tracking

Release coordination

Biotech/pharma familiarity

Education

PhD

MS/MA

BS/BA

Associate degree

High school diploma

Job description

Career Category Engineering Job Description

How might you defy imagination? At Amgen, our shared mission to serve patients drives all that we do. In this vital role, you will join Amgen's Transformative Digital Capabilities (TDC) organization and support delivery of digital and data capabilities within the PDAP portfolio.

What you will do

As a Feature Owner for an automated report authoring platform, you will bridge business needs and Agile delivery by owning the definition, refinement, and successful execution of features within a broader product or program roadmap. You will work closely with product owners, business stakeholders, engineers, data teams, and end users to ensure features are clearly defined, prioritized appropriately, and delivered with quality. This role is best suited for an experienced professional who works under general direction, applies knowledge of product and delivery practices to problems of diverse scope, contributes to project milestones, and provides day-to-day guidance within a workgroup.

Job Requirements

• Partner with the product owner and stakeholders to clarify business needs and shape them into well-defined features and user stories.
• Own feature-level backlog refinement, acceptance criteria, and readiness for Agile sprint planning.
• Coordinate with engineering, data, QA, and business teams to resolve questions, dependencies, and delivery blockers.
• Support prioritization decisions by surfacing tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies at the feature level.
• Participate in solution discussions to ensure business requirements are translated accurately into implementable outcomes.
• Support UAT planning, business validation, and release readiness activities.
• Track feature progress, risks, and decisions and communicate status clearly to stakeholders.
• Help document workflows, business rules, and process changes associated with delivered features.
• Gather user feedback and operational insights to inform continuous improvement.
• Contribute to team ways of working, documentation standards, and Agile best practices.

Basic Qualifications

Doctorate OR Master's degree OR Bachelor's degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR Associate's degree and 6 years of relevant experience OR High school diploma / GED and 8 years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Agile delivery, business analysis, feature ownership, product support, or a related role.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and process requirements.
• Experience working with digital products, analytics solutions, or data-centric platforms.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple work items and follow through on delivery details.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional collaboration and clarifying requirements across technical and business teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with tools and practices for backlog management, issue tracking, and release coordination.
• Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, or other regulated environments preferred.

About Amgen

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology. Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its biologics manufacturing expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential. For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on www.twitter.com/amgen