Director of Digital Product Management

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

10d

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. 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 of Digital Product Management, Central Product Management Hub What you will do Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a part of a central digital product management team and report to the Sr Director Digital Product Management Hub, serving as the enterprise center for enablement, standards, and adoption of the Digital Product Model. You will be responsible for c hampioning and driving Amgen’s shift from projects to products, embedding product ways of working, outcome driven delivery, and scalable digital enablement across teams through both enterprise leadership and hands on product execution. In addition to be a member of the Hub, this role retains direct product execution responsibilities when needed for one or more priority digital products or product groups, operating as a player coach. You will partner closely with the Sr Director Digital Product Management Hub to translate enterprise digital and AI strategy into scalable product management standards, capabilities, and success measures.You will execute and operationalize the tracking of enterprise level OKRs and KPIs related to adoption, maturity, and scaling of the Digital Product Operating Model. You lead and provide training, upskilling, governance, and measurement required to embed product ways of working across all business functions and enabling organizations.

Requirements

• Product Mindset & Experience: Proven “T-shaped” digital product leader, equally fluent in business strategy, customer experience, and digital technology.
• Experience embedding AI-enabled, data-driven, and outcome-oriented PDLC practices
• Operates with a strong customer-first mindset, balancing insight, creativity, and evidence-based decision-making.
• Advanced knowledge of Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies and tools, with experience embedding agile practices at scale.
• Skilled in designing and evolving end-to-end product strategies, from discovery through launch, ensuring usability, feasibility, and viability
• Strong understanding of technology ecosystems, data platforms, and digital architecture principles.
• Leadership & Interpersonal: Demonstrated ability to lead and scale product teams or product groups.
• Experience setting product strategy and aligning executive stakeholders across functions
• Demonstrated strength in stakeholder management, with the ability to influence senior leaders and align diverse teams toward a common vision
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to translate complex technical topics into clear business narratives.
• Experience mentoring or managing product managers and developing future leaders in digital product disciplines.
• Education: Doctorate degree and 4 years of technology and/or product management experience
• Masters degree and 8 years of technology and/or product management experience
• Bachelor degree and 10 years of technology and/or product management experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience: 8+ years of product management experience,.
• Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of clinical trial operations, regulatory pathways, and biopharma commercialization strategies.
• Demonstrable ability to define and meet KPIs with AI/ML driven capabilities.
• Fluency in AI-native product development , including generative AI workflows, structured grounding, agentic capabilities, and responsible AI principles.

Responsibilities

• Product Operating Model Execution & Product Leadership Operationalize and continuously improve Amgen’s Digital Product Operating Model within assigned domains, product groups, or functions
• Implement enterprise standards, playbooks, lifecycle practices, and governance within product teams
• Act as a senior practitioner and role model for Digital Product Management, leading by example
• Translate enterprise digital and AI strategy into actionable roadmaps, delivery plans, and team-level operating structures
• Partner with business and enabling functions to embed product practices in local teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards
• Lead one or more digital products or product groups, accountable for delivery outcomes, value realization, and adherence to product standards
• Identify gaps or friction in current operating practices and provide structured feedback to evolve standards
• Training, Upskilling & Capability Development Lead implementation of product training, onboarding, and upskilling programs for Digital Product Managers (DPMs)
• Coach Senior DPMs and DPMs through discovery, prioritization, AI-enabled delivery, and outcome measurement
• Facilitate product reviews, roadmap critiques, and working sessions to reinforce best practices
• Contribute to and actively participate in the Product Community of Practice
• Use owned products as demonstration examples of strong discovery, prioritization, AI-native delivery, and measurable outcomes
• Identify capability gaps and recommend enhancements to enterprise training programs
• Adoption, Measurement & Performance Management Drive adoption of the Digital Product Operating Model across assigned product groups
• Track product-level OKRs and KPIs aligned to enterprise standards
• Monitor product maturity, adoption metrics, delivery velocity, and value realization
• Surface insights and risks to Senior Director and leadership, with data-backed recommendations
• Support portfolio investment discussions through structured performance reporting
• Leadership & Change Enablement Champion outcome-driven, product-centric ways of working within business and technology teams
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders to adopt product thinking and data-driven prioritization
• Model strong prioritization, decision-making, and trade-off management in active product work
• Support enterprise change initiatives by translating strategy into practical implementation

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, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director