Executive Director Digital Product Management

Amgen; United States; Remote; USD 249,000 - 337,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Stock-based incentives

Comprehensive health benefits

Retirement and savings plan

Job summary

Amgen seeks an Executive Director, Digital Product Management - Research to translate strategy into technology, data, and AI agendas, accelerating science and improving data reuse across Research. The role owns the full technology environment from benchtop systems to data platforms, ensuring governance and high-quality data.

The position leads a cross-functional team spanning informatics, laboratory tech, digital products, and data enablement, with heavy emphasis on executive communication and

Qualifications

• Doctorate or Master's or Bachelor's with extensive technology experience.
• 6+ years of technology experience for Doctorate; 10+ for Master’s; 12+ for Bachelor’s.
• Plus 6 years of managerial experience leading teams or programs.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary research technology and data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-year Research Technology, Data and AI strategy aligned to science priorities.
• Advise Research leadership on portfolio choices, plans, and investment risk.
• Prioritize portfolio investments balancing value, risk, and capacity.
• Define outcomes and OKRs; scale high-value data products and governance.
• Oversee benchtop tech, ELN, LIMS, and integrated scientific workflows.
• Lead modernization of data workflows from capture to insight.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic advisor

Portfolio management

Data governance

Research informatics

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Doctorate degree

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amgen is a global biotechnology company that has been developing medicines for serious illnesses since 1980. Its pipeline and portfolio span heart disease, obesity, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions, and cancer. Amgen researches, manufactures, and delivers medicines with the mission of helping patients live longer, fuller lives.

The role

The Executive Director, Digital Product Management - Research is the senior digital technology leader for Amgen's Research function. The role sits on the Research Leadership Team and is responsible for translating Research strategy and portfolio priorities into a coherent technology, data, and AI agenda. The goal is to accelerate science, improve the quality and reuse of scientific data, and create durable advantage in how Amgen discovers medicines. The role owns the full technology environment for Research, from benchtop systems and electronic lab notebooks to scientific workflows and the data products and platforms that connect Research disciplines.

What you would do

• Set and continuously evolve a multi-year Research Technology, Data and AI strategy in partnership with Research leadership, linking capability investments to scientific priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Serve on the Research Leadership Team as a strategic advisor, bringing technology and data insight to portfolio choices, operating plans, capital decisions, and risk discussions.
• Own portfolio prioritization and investment recommendations across the function, balancing scientific value, urgency, adoption, technical dependencies, risk, cost, and organizational capacity.
• Establish clear outcomes and OKRs; use evidence to redirect investment, retire low-value solutions, and scale what demonstrably advances the science.
• Own the technology foundation that enables Research scientists to do their best work, including benchtop and instrument-adjacent technology, electronic lab notebooks, LIMS, and integrated scientific workflows.
• Lead the modernization and integration of scientific data workflows from capture at source through analysis, reuse, and decision-making, with a strong emphasis on data quality, metadata, and governance.
• Build a coherent portfolio of governed, reusable data products that connect experiments, observations, models, and knowledge across Research.
• Lead and develop a high-performing organization spanning research informatics, laboratory and benchtop technology, digital products, and scientific data enablement.
• Communicate strategy, investment decisions, performance, risks, and opportunities clearly to executive audiences.

What they are looking for

Basic qualifications (one of the following):

• Doctorate degree and 6 years of technology experience
• Master's degree and 10 years of technology experience
• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of technology experience
• Plus 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people or leading teams, projects, or programs

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 or more years of progressive leadership experience, including direct leadership of senior leaders or responsibility for a substantial, multi-disciplinary organization
• Experience leading technology, data, digital, informatics, or computational capabilities in a research-intensive life sciences environment
• Scientific credibility sufficient to earn the trust of scientists and challenge existing assumptions
• Understanding of the drug discovery research lifecycle across relevant disciplines (small molecules, biologics, DELs, ADCs, disease biology, or translational science)
• Experience setting multi-year strategy in partnership with business functions and leading enterprise-scale changes across laboratory technology, scientific software, data platforms, or research informatics
• Experience creating and scaling scientific data products, FAIR data practices, metadata and terminology capabilities, and integrated data-to-insight workflows
• Technology and data judgment across cloud platforms, architecture, laboratory systems, data engineering, analytics, and vendor ecosystems
• Ability to influence senior executives, lead through ambiguity, and create alignment without relying solely on formal authority
• Executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex scientific and technical choices into clear recommendations
• Background in biotechnology, pharmaceutical research, or another highly regulated, technology-intensive environment strongly preferred

Working arrangements

The role is listed as Remote. Locations associated with the posting are South San Francisco, California and Thousand Oaks, California. Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

Pay and benefits

The expected annual salary range in the US (excluding Puerto Rico) is $249,042 to $336,940. Actual salary will vary based on relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. Amgen also offers a Total Rewards Plan that may include a discretionary annual bonus, stock-based long-term incentives, comprehensive health and welfare plans (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance), a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, flexible spending accounts, award-winning time-off plans, and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns.