Digital Product Strategy and Innovation Lead

Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen if you feel like youre part of something bigger its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do.

Since 1980 weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds 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 youll 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 youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

At Amgen if you feel like youre part of something bigger its because you are. Our shared missionto serve patients living with serious illnessesdrives all that we do.

Since 1980 weve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the worlds 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 youll 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 youll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

In this critical leadership role you will establish and lead Amgens Portugal-based AI Digital Product Enablement team as part of the AI&D Lab Product Management organization. Reporting to the Executive Director AI&D Lab Product Management you will build a high-performing team that serves as the operational and product bridge between US-based business stakeholders and global development teams including India.

This role is designed to enable a follow-the-sun operating model. You and your team will translate business priorities into execution-ready product work reduce ambiguity across regions accelerate decision-making and improve the quality and consistency of handoffs so product delivery can progress continuously across time zones.

The ideal candidate combines strong product leadership technical fluency operational rigor and team-building experience. This leader must be equally effective with senior business stakeholders product and engineering teams and cross-functional partners for AI delivery excellence.

Establish and lead the Portugal-based enablement team

• Build lead and develop a Portugal-based team responsible for digital product ownership and cross-regional delivery enablement for AI initiatives.
• Define the teams operating model scope processes ways of working and success measures.
• Create a high-accountability high-collaboration culture focused on quality speed and business impact.

Enable follow-the-sun product delivery

• Serve as the leadership bridge between US business teams and global delivery teams including India to maintain momentum across time zones.
• Ensure work is clearly translated prioritized and handed off so teams can execute with minimal delay.
• Improve delivery continuity by reducing blockers clarifying decisions and ensuring work is ready for the next team to advance.

Lead product ownership for AI solutions

• Provide product ownership for AI and digital solutions within Agile delivery models.
• Own and oversee product backlogs including prioritization refinement and readiness for engineering execution.
• Ensure requirements acceptance criteria and dependencies are clearly defined to support high-quality delivery.

Translate business needs into technical execution

• Articulate business requirements into product user stories and engineering requirements.
• Convert business objectives into actionable product requirements and delivery plans.
• Work closely with engineering data science and technical teams to align on scope tradeoffs and execution path.

Improve execution excellence and delivery velocity

• Implement consistent product management and Agile practices across the team.
• Track delivery performance identify bottlenecks and improve team throughput and handoff quality.
• Introduce scalable mechanisms tools and operating rhythms that improve speed transparency and predictability.

Measure product and business outcomes

• Define and monitor product metrics adoption measures delivery KPIs and where applicable model-performance indicators.
• Use data stakeholder feedback and operational insights to inform prioritization and continuous improvement.
• Provide clear decision-ready updates to leadership on progress risks and outcomes.

• Doctorate degree and 3 years of technology and/or product management experience
• Masters degree and 5 years of technology and/or product management experience
• Bachelor degree and 7 years of technology and/or product management experience
• Associate degree and 9 years of technology and/or product management experience
• High school diploma / GED and 13 years of technology and/or product management experience

• 6 years of product management (or related) experience; 4 years in AI/ML or data-driven products.
• Experience with AI platforms MLOps or enterprise AI architecture.
• Familiarity with AI (e.g. LLMs agents NLP) and ML productization at scale.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills with experience communicating to executives
• Familiarity with biotech workflows (e.g. lab automation computational biology clinical data etc).
• Hands-on ability to analyze product usage model output quality or design A/B experiments.

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