Director, Digital Product Management Catalysts

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

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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-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. Director, Digital Product Management Catalysts What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead a team of product managers who embed with priority products, product groups, and enterprise initiatives to accelerate Amgen’s adoption of the Digital Product Operating Model (DPOM). Reporting to the Executive Director, Product Management Hub, this leader will help Amgen move from output-driven delivery to outcome-driven product management through direct product work, coaching, and hands-on capability building.This role is not a traditional advisory or training role. The Director and their team will work directly with product teams, business functions, digital product leadership, and technology leaders to improve how products are defined, prioritized, measured, and delivered. Catalyst product managers will perform product management responsibilities while embedded with teams, including clarifying user and business problems, shaping product strategy, improving roadmaps, defining OKRs and KPIs, supporting discovery, strengthening prioritization, and connecting delivery work to measurable outcomes. The Director will be accountable for both product outcomes within embedded engagements and DPOM adoption outcomes across supported teams. This leader will also hire, develop, coach, and deploy a team of 3–5 product managers.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Digital Product Management, Product Leadership or Digital Transformation experience OR Master’s degree and 8 years of Digital Product Management, Product Leadership or Digital Transformation experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of Digital Product Management, Product Leadership or Digital Transformation experience.
• At least 4 years’ experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources.
• Managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of progressive experience in digital product management, including product strategy, discovery, roadmapping, prioritization, delivery, and outcome measurement.
• Demonstrated success leading, coaching, or developing product managers and helping teams improve product management craft.
• Strong product leadership experience in complex, cross-functional environments, with the ability to influence across business, technology, data, design, and operations.
• Proven ability to move teams from output-oriented delivery to outcome-oriented product management.
• Experience embedding with teams or leading transformation through hands-on product execution, coaching, and practical capability building.
• Strong understanding of product operating models, product lifecycle practices, OKRs, KPIs, roadmaps, discovery, prioritization, and value realization.
• Ability to operate as a player-coach: willing to go deep into product work while building capability in others.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including the ability to align business functions, digital product leaders, and technology leaders around product outcomes.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills, including the ability to coach teams and influence senior audiences.
• Experience in healthcare, biotechnology, or other regulated industries preferred; candidates from high-tech, digital, consulting, or product-led organizations are also encouraged to apply.
• Familiarity with AI-native product development, generative AI workflows, responsible AI principles, and the evolving role of AI in product management preferred.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity, building new capabilities, and helping teams adopt new ways of working while maintaining trust and momentum.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of product management catalysts who embed with priority products, product groups, and enterprise initiatives.
• Define and operationalize the Catalyst engagement model, including how teams are selected, engagements are scoped, success is measured, and learnings are scaled.
• Deploy Catalyst team members against high-priority opportunities to improve product outcomes and accelerate DPOM adoption.
• Coach Catalyst team members through real product work, including discovery, strategy, prioritization, roadmaps, OKRs, stakeholder alignment, and value measurement.
• Create a team culture grounded in product craft, coaching excellence, enterprise impact, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the Catalyst team in performing hands-on product management responsibilities while embedded with product teams and product groups.
• Help teams clarify business and user problems, define measurable outcomes, and make value-based prioritization decisions.
• Support teams in developing strong product strategies, roadmaps, OKRs, KPIs, discovery practices, and value realization plans.
• Partner with business functions, digital product leadership, and technology leaders to align product work to enterprise priorities and measurable business value.
• Create lighthouse examples of strong product management, outcome orientation, discovery, prioritization, and DPOM adoption.
• Accelerate adoption of DPOM through hands-on coaching, embedded execution, and practical application of product standards.
• Help teams move from feature/output roadmaps to outcome-oriented product strategies and success measures.
• Upskill product managers, product owners, business partners, technology leads, and cross-functional team members through real product work.
• Identify recurring capability gaps, adoption barriers, and product management anti-patterns, and partner with Product Management Hub leadership to address them.
• Contribute insights from embedded engagements to improve DPOM playbooks, training, tools, standards, and operating rhythms.
• Partner closely with business functions, digital product leadership, technology leaders, and enabling teams to support adoption of product ways of working.
• Influence senior stakeholders to shift from project-based delivery and stakeholder-request roadmaps toward empowered, outcome-driven product teams.
• Serve as a trusted product leader who can operate credibly with executives, product teams, technology teams, and business partners.
• Balance enterprise DPOM consistency with practical implementation in different product and business contexts.
• Represent the Product Management Hub in discussions about product maturity, capability development, adoption barriers, and value realization.
• Define and track success measures for Catalyst engagements, including product outcomes, adoption outcomes, team maturity, and capability growth.
• Monitor engagement impact and use data and qualitative feedback to refine the Catalyst model.
• Surface insights, risks, and recommendations to Product Management Hub leadership.
• Convert learnings from Catalyst engagements into reusable practices, examples, playbook improvements, and enterprise capability-building opportunities.
• Help establish product management as a durable function and leadership discipline across Amgen.

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: Director
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree