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About Amgen
Amgen is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers innovative human therapeutics, with products addressing conditions such as anemia, bone loss, inflammation, and cancer. Industry: Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
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The Executive Director, Digital Product Management - Research serves as a senior digital technology leader for the Research team. This role involves translating research strategy into a coherent technology, data, and AI agenda to accelerate science and improve the quality of scientific data. The leader will own the technology environment for Research, including benchtop systems, electronic lab notebooks, LIMS, and integrated scientific workflows. Key responsibilities include setting multi-year strategies, managing portfolio prioritization, and leading a high-performing organization spanning research informatics and digital products. The position requires expertise in cloud platforms, data engineering, analytics, and vendor ecosystems to support drug discovery processes such as small molecule discovery, antibody-drug conjugates, and translational safety. The goal is to create durable advantages in medicine discovery through reliable, scalable data products.
Set and evolve the multi-year Research Technology, Data, and AI strategy to align with scientific priorities and measurable outcomes.
Serve as a strategic advisor on the Research Leadership Team to influence portfolio choices, capital decisions, and risk discussions.
Own the research technology environment, including benchtop instruments, electronic lab notebooks, LIMS, and integrated scientific workflows.
Lead the modernization of scientific data workflows to ensure high data quality, metadata standards, and governance.
Build a portfolio of reusable data products that connect experiments and models across different research disciplines.
Lead and develop a high-performing organization spanning research informatics, laboratory technology, and digital products.
Manage technology investment discipline by making build-versus-buy decisions and managing technical debt.
Communicate complex scientific and technical investment choices to executive audiences as clear, actionable recommendations.
What we're looking for
Must have a Doctorate with 6 years of technology experience, a Master’s with 10 years, or a Bachelor’s with 12 years.
Must have 6 years of experience managing people or leading teams, projects, programs, or resource allocation.
5+ years of progressive leadership experience, including direct leadership of senior leaders or a multi-disciplinary organization (preferred).
Experience leading technology, data, digital, informatics, or computational capabilities in a research-intensive life sciences environment (preferred).
Scientific credibility to earn the trust of scientists and challenge existing assumptions (preferred).
Understanding of the drug discovery research lifecycle across disciplines like small molecules, biologics, or translational science (preferred).
Experience setting multi-year strategy and leading enterprise-scale changes in laboratory technology or research informatics (preferred).
Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical research, or another highly regulated, technology-intensive environment (preferred).
Agile
Lean Product Development
Lean Portfolio Management
AI
Automation
Advanced Analytics
Data Analysis
Experience Design
Human Centered Design
Customer Communications Management
CCM
Roadmap Development
Journey Mapping
Process Engineering
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