Associate Vice President - Digital Product Management

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JOIN AMGEN’S MISSION OF SERVING PATIENTS

At Amgen, if you feel like you are a 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.

Live

What you will do

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

We’re on the hunt for a bold, visionary leader to shape the future of Amgen’s technology and AI portfolio. As our head of Digital Product Management, you’ll report directly to the SVP of AI and Data, and you’ll play a critical role in advancing the technology transformation of Amgen’s leading biotechnology stack, with accountabilities for enabling everything from better protein structure prediction to automated tools to power our manufacturing centers to creating the next generation of digital medicine capabilities for patients and providers. This role will own the implementation of the digital product operating model across the technology and AI & data organizations and our business units, creating common ways of working and accelerating the velocity and impact of our technology efforts. This role is built for someone who thrives in high-velocity environments, understands what it takes to ship great software, and leads with both heart and precision. You should be willing to challenge the status quo but also have a keen eye for key intersections for compliance and regulatory considerations in software development.

You’ll be responsible for:

Strategic Leadership: Set the vision. Define the strategy. Lead the charge. In this role, you won’t just steer digital product strategy—you’ll architect the future of how Amgen builds and delivers technology. You'll lead from the front, championing a bold, user-centered vision that aligns with business priorities and redefines what’s possible in a complex, fast-moving environment. You will be the driving force behind the digital product operating model that connects every technology team and business function. From how we prioritize work to how we build, ship, and scale—your playbook becomes the playbook. You’ll standardize and evolve our rituals, tools, and traditions to unlock greater speed, clarity, and impact across the board. Most critically, you’ll accelerate our ability to deliver data- and AI-powered solutions with precision and velocity. This is about enabling high-performance product development at global scale—and doing it in a way that creates measurable business value. You’ll lead a world-class, globally distributed team and operate as a force multiplier across the organization.

Transform Ways of Working: Own the design and rollout of the digital product operating model across the AI & data and Technology organizations, establishing clear decision rights, ways of working, education and training, and monitoring and support. Drive improvements to executional velocity, impact, and budgetary ROI across the technology and AI portfolio, while developing standards for measurement, tracking, and adherence.

Product Portfolio Management: Own the full lifecycle of a diverse digital product portfolio, including establishing KPIs and measurement systems across our technology portfolio. Prioritize ruthlessly, balancing innovation with business impact. Ensure every product in flight is solving real problems, delighting users, and moving the needle. Make key decisions on trade-offs between cost, scope, and timelines for product delivery. 

Stakeholder Collaboration: Be the connective tissue between business, tech, design, and operations. Navigate complexity, translate vision into execution, and ensure customer needs are front and center in every decision.

Execution and Delivery: Lead product development through modern Agile practices. Roll up your sleeves when needed. Drive accountability, ship on time, and ensure quality. Use data and feedback loops to fine-tune products post-launch.

Compliance: Establish clear product launch and lifecycle management policies to ensure compliance, security, and regulatory and organizational standards, including ethnical AI and data privacy policies, partnering with our infrastructure and cybersecurity, legal, and other key teams.

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What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree & 7 years of product management experience OR

• Master’s degree & 10 years of product management experience OR

• Bachelor’s degree & 12 years of product management experience AND

• 7 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Business Administration (MBA), Technology Management, or a related field

• Certification in Product Management (e.g., Pragmatic Institute, AIPMM, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager)

• Product Management Experience: 12 or more years in product management, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles

• Digital Transformation Expertise driving digital innovation and managing digital product portfolios

• Agile and Lean Practices: Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Agile and Lean methodologies

• Industry Experience: Familiarity with the industry (e.g., life sciences, healthcare, technology) to align products with business needs and regulations

• Experience managing large-scale product portfolios or leading multi-regional teams

• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements in the industry

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to define and articulate a clear product vision and strategy aligned with organizational goals

• Data-Driven Decision Making: analytical skills with experience in leveraging data, KPIs, and insights to guide product strategies

• Leadership and Collaboration: ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, and manage executive-level relationships

• Verbal and written communication skills, including experience presenting to executive audiences

• Technical Acumen: understanding of digital technologies, platforms, and tools relevant to product management

Thrive

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 annual base salary range for this opportunity in the U.S. is $275,524 to $343,032. 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:

• 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 and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns

• Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible

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. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 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. 

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