Associate Director - Information Systems

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

8d • $171,556 - $232,106

About The Position

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. 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.
Associate Director - Information Systems - Clinical Data Hub
What you will do
Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role, you will serve as the Associate Director and product leader for the Clinical Data Hub (CDH) product team within the Clinical Design and Analysis (CDA) - Digital, Technology & Innovation (DTI) organization. You will set the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for CDH as a trusted, scalable clinical data foundation that enables discovery, integration, governance, and reuse of clinical development data. This role is critical to accelerating study onboarding, improving data availability and quality, enabling analytics and AI-ready data, and increasing the speed and probability of successful product development and commercialization.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
• Or Master’s degree and 8 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
• Or Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
• Or Associate’s degree and 12 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
• Or High school diploma / GED and 14 years of Information Systems and/or Computer Science and/or Biology experience
• In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 4 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, products, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.

Nice To Haves

• Domain knowledge of Clinical Development data and processes, including clinical data management, study execution, data standards, governance, and regulated environments.
• Product Management or Product Owner experience leading enterprise data, analytics, or platform products, with a demonstrated track record of delivering measurable business outcomes, adoption, resilience, and compliance.
• Strong strategic thinking, learning agility, and technical leadership, with the ability to translate complex business, data, and technology challenges into strategy, investment priorities, and actionable plans.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders across Clinical Development and DTI, align priorities, resolve complex issues, and drive decisions and outcomes.
• Experience with product strategy, multi-year roadmaps, portfolio prioritization, resource planning, and Agile product delivery, including discovery, backlog management, release planning, and Scrum or scaled Agile practices.
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture and engineering, including cloud, data lakes/lakehouses, APIs, metadata, data quality and lineage, security, DevOps, and analytics/AI. Experience with AWS, Databricks, Apache technologies, Python, R, SQL, Docker, and GitLab is preferred.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills. Able to communicate strategy, business value, risks, and decisions to diverse audiences. Skilled at delivering impactful presentations and building trusted partnerships across functions, geographies, and organizational levels.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain senior partnerships across Clinical Development, Data Management, Biostatistics, Clinical Operations, Safety, Regulatory, Precision Medicine, and DTI to define and execute the CDH strategic roadmap.
• Own and communicate the CDH product vision, multi-year roadmap, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes in alignment with clinical development and enterprise data strategy.
• Champion scalable data products, common data standards, metadata, governance, security, discoverability, and interoperability capabilities that simplify data access and reuse across studies and functions.
• Lead product portfolio planning, manage and prioritize the product backlog and budget, and make transparent trade-off decisions across platform reliability, regulatory compliance, technical debt, and delivery of new capabilities.
• Provide strategic and people leadership for a cross-functional product team; develop product, technical, and delivery capabilities while creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and execute workforce, capability, and resource strategies, including talent development, succession planning, vendor/partner management, and effective use of internal and external resources to support the CDH strategy.
• Collaborate closely with data, analytics, platform, infrastructure, architecture, security, validation, DevOps/RunOps, and other product teams to deliver end-to-end value and dependable operations.
• Establish effective product governance and performance management practices, using business outcomes, adoption, operational health, cost, quality, and stakeholder feedback to guide investment and strategic decisions.
• Represent CDH in senior leadership forums, communicate strategy, progress, risks, dependencies, and investment needs, and build alignment on decisions that impact the broader clinical data ecosystem.
• Anticipate emerging business and technology needs and translate trends in clinical data, analytics, AI, and digital capabilities into opportunities to evolve the CDH product strategy and long-term roadmap.

Benefits

• 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 where possible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree