Senior Director, Digital Product Management

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

4d • Remote

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. Senior Director Digital Product Management What you will do The Sr. Director, Digital Product Management (DPM) will lead and coordinate the strategy, development, and delivery of high-impact digital products that advance Amgen's digital transformation agenda. Reporting to the VP of Digital Product Management, this leadership role will set the direction for a defined “product” or “product area”, coordinating progress across multiple products within that domain and potentially managing a team of junior or deputy product managers. This role serves as the connective tissue between the business, technology, and customer outcomes, owning the end-to-end product lifecycle and driving enterprise transformation through a product approach. This senior DPM will champion Amgen's shift from projects to products, embedding product ways of working, dedicated delivery, and scalable digital enablement across teams. The senior DPM will partner closely with product managers, technology teams, user experience designers, and data scientists to deliver integrated digital solutions that drive measurable value for patients and the business.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree and 4 years of Digital Product Direction experience OR Master's degree and 7 Digital Product Direction experience OR Bachelor's degree and 9 years of Digital Product Direction experience

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of dynamic experience in digital product management, ideally spanning product strategy, product operations, and delivery.
• Experience in healthcare, biotechnology, or other regulated industries preferred; candidates from ‘high tech' industries are also highly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Translate Amgen's digital strategy into actionable product roadmaps with clear outcomes, landmarks, and value measures.
• Manage and prioritize a balanced product backlog, incorporating new feature development, technical debt remediation, and maintenance.
• Partner with the VP of Digital Product Management to ensure that priorities, roadmaps, and resourcing decisions align with enterprise objectives.
• Depending on business needs, oversee multiple digital products within a defined product area, ensuring alignment with the overall digital portfolio and enterprise objectives.
• Champion AI-led tools and practices to accelerate discovery, prototyping, and delivery of digital products.
• Continuously leverage data and AI-focused insights to inform prioritization, product design, and decision-making.
• Partner with Data and Technology teams to evolve Amgen's digital architecture toward modular, future-ready products and platforms.
• Integrate AI-based automation and intelligence into the product lifecycle to improve efficiency, scalability, and user impact.
• Partner with the VP of Digital Product Management and product owners to ensure projects ladder up to overall digital product objectives.
• Lead, mentor, and develop product managers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for executive stakeholders within the product area, providing clear communication on vision, progress, and outcomes.
• Call out barriers to the VP and relevant leadership in a timely and solution-focused manner.
• Define and monitor key performance indicators (critical metrics) and objectives and key results (goals and landmarks) to measure success for the relevant and identified products
• Ensure that all digital initiatives within the area are tracked for outcome-based value realization, measuring impact on business performance, efficiency, and user experience
• Experienced “T-shaped” digital product leader, equally fluent in business strategy, customer experience, and digital technology.
• Experience embedding AI-enabled, data-driven, and focused PDLC practices
• Operates with a strong customer-first approach, 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
• Solid understanding of technology ecosystems, data platforms, and digital architecture principles.
• 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 fields.

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
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees