Executive Director, Digital Product Management – Research
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Executive Director leading Amgen’s research digital technology, data, and AI strategy. Advancing laboratory systems, scientific workflows, and data products for biotech medicine discovery.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the senior digital technology leader for Research
- Translate Research strategy and portfolio priorities into a coherent technology, data and AI agenda
- Accelerate scientific discovery, improve scientific data quality and reuse, and create durable advantage in medicine discovery
- Serve on the Research Leadership Team as a strategic advisor and decision-maker
- Shape technology investment priorities from disease understanding and target selection through molecule design, synthesis, and translational safety
- Own the Research technology environment, including benchtop environment, electronic lab notebooks, scientific workflows, data products and platforms
- Set and evolve the multi-year Research Technology, Data & AI strategy
- Link capability investments to the Research portfolio, scientific priorities and measurable outcomes
- Own portfolio prioritization and investment recommendations
- Establish OKRs and value measures; redirect investment, retire low-value solutions and scale effective solutions
- Own benchtop and instrument-adjacent technology, electronic lab notebooks, LIMS and integrated scientific workflows
- Deliver reliable, scalable products that improve scientific workflows and demonstrate measurable value
- Modernize and integrate scientific data workflows from source capture through analysis, reuse and decision-making
- Build governed, reusable data products connecting experiments, observations, models and knowledge across Research
- Advance digital capabilities across disease understanding, target selection, small molecule discovery, large molecule discovery, DNA-encoded libraries and antibody-drug conjugates
- Ensure platforms and workflows are designed around scientist needs and continuously improve user experience
- Lead and develop an organization spanning research informatics, laboratory and benchtop technology, digital products and scientific data enablement
- Build partnerships with Research leaders, Technology and AI & Data organizations, and external collaborators
- Manage platform rationalization, build-versus-buy decisions and technical debt
- Set standards for product and delivery excellence, architecture, vendor management, operations, adoption, lifecycle management and realized value
- Communicate strategy, investment decisions, performance, risks and opportunities to executive audiences
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
- 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 preferred, 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 and ability to earn scientists’ trust
- Understanding of drug discovery research lifecycle across relevant disciplines such as small molecules, biologics, DELs, ADCs, disease biology, or translational science
- Experience setting multi-year strategy and leading enterprise-scale changes across laboratory technology, scientific software, data platforms, scientific workflows, 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, resolve consequential cross-functional trade-offs, and create alignment without relying solely on formal authority
- Executive communication and storytelling skills
- Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical research or another highly regulated, technology-intensive environment strongly preferred
Benefits:
- Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions
- Group medical, dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- A discretionary annual bonus program
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans
- Bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
- Flexible work models where possible
- Career development opportunities
- Work/life balance
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