Digital Product Strategy and Innovation Lead
US - California - Thousand Oaks - Field/Remote
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.Career Category
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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. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. 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.
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. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. 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.
Digital Product Strategy and Innovation Lead
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will focus on ensuring successful progression of high value AI and other technology initiatives, placing a strong emphasis on acceleration to value within Amgen’s Technology Innovation Lab, part of AI & Data function. This role will work with the Director, Digital Product Management within the Technology Innovation Lab and will work with various multi-functional partners as well as external collaborators and play a pivotal role in driving value towards Amgen’s AI strategic imperatives and digital transformation, ensuring timely and effective delivery.
This Director position will:
- Lead Product Ownership for AI and Technology Solutions: Act as the Product Owner within an Agile framework, ensuring that AI and technology products meet the needs of collaborators and align with the organization’s strategic goals. This includes defining the vision, roadmap, and priorities for the AI portfolio.
- Bridge Technical and Business Strategy: Serve as a key liaison between cross-functional teams, including Business, ATMOS, and external partners. Translate business needs into technical requirements and prioritize initiatives to increase impact.
- Facilitate AI Initiative Progression: Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of AI and machine learning initiatives, ensuring alignment with process standards and timely delivery.
- Champion Value Acceleration and Scalability: Lead initial scaling process for AI products aligned with Amgen’s scaling operating model, implementing standard methodologies in product and platform scaling to ensure AI solutions are enterprise-ready.
- Develop Strategic Insights: Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the technology landscape as applied to relevant initiatives, and provide guidance on technology identification, selection, and roadmap
- Navigate Project Hurdles: Actively identify and resolve issues and risks, ensuring seamless progression and continuity across AI projects.
- Master User Adoption: Maintain deep understanding of end user needs, translated into optimal feature prioritization as well as change management strategy and deliver to drive maximum, sustained adoption of technology
- Communicate with Transparency: Represent projects and deliver insights to key collaborators (e.g., Technology Innovation Lab, ATMOS Governance, etc.) to ensure transparency, alignment, and understanding of project status, priorities, and impact.
What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The product management professional we seek is a strategic problem solver with these qualifications.
Basic Qualifications:
- Doctorate degree and 3 years of technology and/or product management experience
- Masters degree and 5 years of technology and/or product management experience
- Bachelor degree and 7 years of technology and/or product management experience
- Associate degree and 9 years of technology and/or product management experience
- High school diploma / GED and 13 years of technology and/or product management experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Aligns Product Vision with Business and Technical Requirements: Translates organizational goals into clear product requirements, ensuring alignment between technical capabilities and business objectives.
- Foundational Technical Competencies: Working knowledge in one or more of the following areas—data science, machine learning, coding (Python, R, or similar), or MLOps. Ability to engage with data scientists and machine learning engineers to guide project scope and technical feasibility.
- Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical abilities to address complex challenges in AI development and to derive insights for strategic decision-making.
- Effective Communication Skills: Demonstrable ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical collaborators and communicate priorities, status updates, and outcomes effectively across all levels.
- Project and Relationship Management: Excellent project management skills with a record of building strong partnerships across multi-functional teams and managing diverse workloads to meet deadlines.
- Independent and Collaborative Working Style: Ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance and know when to seek input, combined with a collaborative approach to achieve alignment and support project goals.
- AI and Digital Transformation Competence: Understanding of AI-focused solutions and digital transformation trends, particularly in life sciences
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. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.
The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is $175,437 - $219,249. 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 other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:
- A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
- A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans
- Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible
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Application deadline
Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.
As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
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