Executive Director, Digital Product Management -Research

Amgen; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 249,000 - 337,000; Full time

Job summary

Amgen seeks a senior leader to serve as Executive Director, Digital Product Management - Research, shaping technology, data and AI across the Research portfolio. You will translate strategy into an actionable agenda, lead a high-performing team, and drive investments aligned with scientific priorities to accelerate medicine discovery.

You will build reusable data products, modernize laboratory workflows, and partner with global leaders to deliver measurable value and robust governance across

Qualifications

• Basic qualifications describe required degrees with experience in technology leadership.
• Advanced degrees plus years of managerial experience are expected.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale digital, data and AI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead research technology, data and AI strategy in partnership with Research.
• Own portfolio prioritization and investment recommendations.
• Partner with leadership to ensure value-driven platforms and workflows.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Biotech domain knowledge

Education

Doctorate degree

Master’s degree

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline and portfolio of medicines to treat heart disease, obesity and obesity-related conditions, rare diseases, inflammatory conditions, and cancer. 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.

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. 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.

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, linking capability investments to the Research portfolio, scientific priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Serve on the Research Leadership Team as a strategic advisor and decision-maker; bring 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, OKRs and value measures; use evidence to redirect investment, retire low-value solutions and scale what demonstrably advances the science.
• Scientific technology, laboratory workflows, and data products
• Own the technology foundation that enables Research scientists to do their best work: benchtop and instrument-adjacent technology, electronic lab notebooks, LIMS, and integrated scientific workflows.
• Deliver reliable, scalable products that scientists want to use, improve workflows, and demonstrate measurable value.
• 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, terminology, and fit-for-purpose governance.
• Build a coherent portfolio of governed, reusable data products that connect experiments, observations, models, and knowledge across Research, making data discoverable, trustworthy, and ready for analytical reuse.
• Advance digital capabilities across the Research portfolio, including disease understanding, target selection, small molecule discovery, large molecule discovery, DNA-encoded libraries, and antibody-drug conjugates, while enabling productive collaboration across scientific domains.
• Ensure platforms and workflows are designed around scientist needs and continuously improve the end-to-end user experience.
• Technology, data, and operating leadership
• Lead and develop a high-performing organization spanning research informatics, laboratory and benchtop technology, digital products, and scientific data enablement.
• Build strong partnerships with Research scientific leaders, the Technology and AI & Data organizations, and external collaborators; resolve cross-functional dependencies and material trade-offs.
• Demonstrate robust technology investment discipline across platform rationalization, build-versus-buy decisions, and managing technical debt.
• Set a high bar for product and delivery excellence: clear problem framing, scientist co-design, strong architecture, rigorous vendor management, reliable operations, adoption, lifecycle management, and realized value
• Create a culture that combines scientific curiosity with accountability; one that moves quickly, learns from evidence, anticipates risk, and delivers dependable services to laboratories and research teams
• Communicate strategy, investment decisions, performance, risks, and opportunities clearly to executive audiences, translating complex scientific and technical choices into decisive action

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The candidate we seek is an experienced leader with the following qualifications.

Amgen leadership attributes which are:

• Inspire: Create a connected, inclusive, and inspiring work environment that empowers talent to thrive
• Accelerate: Enable speed that matches the urgency of patient needs by encouraging progress over perfection
• Integrate: Connect the dots to amplify the collective power of Amgen to drive results for patients, staff, and shareholders
• Adapt: Lead through change by adapting to an ever-changing environment and defining a clear course of action to deliver results

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience, including direct leadership of senior leaders and/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 that they can earn the trust of scientists and enable existing assumptions to be challenged
• Understanding of drug discovery research lifecycle and builds credibility with scientists across relevant disciplines, such as 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, scientific workflows, or research informatics
• Experience in creating and scaling scientific data products, FAIR data practices, metadata and terminology capabilities, and integrated data-to-insight workflows
• Technology and data judgment, with the ability to make informed decisions across cloud platforms, architecture, laboratory systems, data engineering, analytics, and vendor ecosystems
• Ability to influence senior executives, lead through ambiguity, resolve consequential cross-functional trade-offs and create alignment without relying solely on formal authority
• Executive communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex scientific, technical and investment choices into clear recommendations and action
• Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical research or another highly regulated, technology-intensive environment strongly preferred

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $249,042 to $336,940. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or