Protein Design Product Owner

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

2d • $134,168 - $181,522

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients. 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. Within Amgen’s Research and Development organization, the Therapeutic Protein Design (TPD) team supports the broad goal of advancing and applying computational protein design to revolutionize how biologic therapeutics are made. In this vital role you will own protein design as a product, building the planning structures and workflow organization tools required to support a cross-functional team of scientists and engineers that are engaged in building and applying frontier models for protein design.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree OR Master’s degree and 2 years of product ownership experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of product ownership experience OR Associate’s degree and 8 years of product ownership experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with product ownership related to machine learning or therapeutic development, and advanced education in one of the following: Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computational Biology
• A strong background in workflow planning
• Experience building automations for workflow tracking tools like Jira
• Familiarity with UNIX/Linux, Python, PyTorch, Git, and cloud computing platforms
• Experience working with biological data, and in applications of machine learning to computational biology
• Familiarity with protein design workflows
• Strong communication, project management and technical leadership skills with an enthusiasm for working in an interdisciplinary team environment.

Responsibilities

• Take big picture responsibility, capturing requirements and building roadmaps to ensure the team knows exactly what to build next.
• Balance team resources between two critical types of deliverable: the platform tools we use, and the therapeutic molecules we develop for patients.
• Build automations to capture, organize, and communicate work both for the team and for leadership.
• Collaborate with computational and experimental scientists to establish these processes as a foundation of the discovery pipeline.
• Work towards individual ownership and a leadership role in building how Amgen delivers results.

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: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree