Director, Digital Product Management Catalysts

Career CategoryInformation SystemsJob DescriptionJoin Amgen’s Mission of Serving PatientsAt 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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, 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. 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, Digital Product Management CatalystsWhat you will doLet’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will lead a team of product managers who embed with priority products, product groups, and enterprise initiatives to accelerate Amgen’s adoption of the Digital Product Operating Model (DPOM). Reporting to the Executive Director, Product Management Hub, this leader will help Amgen move from output-driven delivery to outcome-driven product management through direct product work, coaching, and hands-on capability building.This role is not a traditional advisory or training role. The Director and their team will work directly with product teams, business functions, digital product leadership, and technology leaders to improve how products are defined, prioritized, measured, and delivered. Catalyst product managers will perform product management responsibilities while embedded with teams, including clarifying user and business problems, shaping product strategy, improving roadmaps, defining OKRs and KPIs, supporting discovery, strengthening prioritization, and connecting delivery work to measurable outcomes.The Director will be accountable for both product outcomes within embedded engagements and DPOM adoption outcomes across supported teams. This leader will also hire, develop, coach, and deploy a team of 3–5 product managers.Responsibilities:Catalyst Team Leadership and DeploymentBuild, lead, and develop a high-performing team of product management catalysts who embed with priority products, product groups, and enterprise initiatives.Define and operationalize the Catalyst engagement model, including how teams are selected, engagements are scoped, success is measured, and learnings are scaled.Deploy Catalyst team members against high-priority opportunities to improve product outcomes and accelerate DPOM adoption.Coach Catalyst team members through real product work, including discovery, strategy, prioritization, roadmaps, OKRs, stakeholder alignment, and value measurement.Create a team culture grounded in product craft, coaching excellence, enterprise impact, and measurable outcomes.Embedded Product Leadership and Product OutcomesLead the Catalyst team in performing hands-on product management responsibilities while embedded with product teams and product groups.Help teams clarify business and user problems, define measurable outcomes, and make value-based prioritization decisions.Support teams in developing strong product strategies, roadmaps, OKRs, KPIs, discovery practices, and value realization plans.Partner with business functions, digital product leadership, and technology leaders to align product work to enterprise priorities and measurable business value.Create lighthouse examples of strong product management, outcome orientation, discovery, prioritization, and DPOM adoption.DPOM Adoption and Capability BuildingAccelerate adoption of DPOM through hands-on coaching, embedded execution, and practical application of product standards.Help teams move from feature/output roadmaps to outcome-oriented product strategies and success measures.Upskill product managers, product owners, business partners, technology leads, and cross-functional team members through real product work.Identify recurring capability gaps, adoption barriers, and product management anti-patterns, and partner with Product Management Hub leadership to address them.Contribute insights from embedded engagements to improve DPOM playbooks, training, tools, standards, and operating rhythms.Stakeholder Partnership and Enterprise InfluencePartner closely with business functions, digital product leadership, technology leaders, and enabling teams to support adoption of product ways of working.Influence senior stakeholders to shift from project-based delivery and stakeholder-request roadmaps toward empower