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About the Role

Amgen is seeking an Executive Director, Digital Product Management - Research to serve as the senior digital technology leader for Research. This role will translate Research strategy into a technology, data, and AI agenda to accelerate scientific discovery and create a durable advantage in medicine discovery. The Executive Director will own the technology environment for Research, lead a talented organization, and partner with scientific leaders to ensure dependable capabilities for faster and better science.

Responsibilities

Set and 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, 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, OKRs and value measures; 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: 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.
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.

Requirements

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.
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.

Skills

Digital Product Management
Technology Strategy
Data Strategy
AI Strategy
Research Technology
Laboratory Workflows
Data Products
Scientific Data
Electronic Lab Notebooks
LIMS
Data Governance
Cloud Platforms
Architecture
Data Engineering
Analytics
Vendor Management
Product Management
Agile Methodologies

Location

Work Type

Flexible work models where possible

Experience Level

Executive Director
Senior Leadership

Education Level

Doctorate degree
Master's degree
Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

$249,042 to $336,940

Benefits

Comprehensive employee benefits package
Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
Group medical, dental and vision coverage
Life and disability insurance
Flexible spending accounts
Discretionary annual bonus program
Stock-based long-term incentives
Award-winning time-off plans
Bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

About the Company

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.
Amgen's award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based.
Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients.

Equal Opportunity

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer.
We make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We provide reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities, consistent with legal requirements.
Amgen will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.