Sr Digital Product Manager - R&D Commercialization & PPM

Overview

Serve as Digital Product Owner for a defined portfolio of R&D Commercialization technology products and systems, and as the Amgen India (AIN) technology lead for R&D Commercialization and PPM, with direct people leadership for AIN-based technology staff.

What you'll do

• Serve as Product Owner for a defined portfolio of R&D Commercialization digital products, applications, data solutions, and technology capabilities.
• Develop and maintain product roadmaps aligned to R&D Commercialization priorities, business outcomes, enterprise technology strategy, and DPOM principles.
• Translate business needs and strategic priorities into clearly defined product capabilities, value drops, features, and prioritized backlogs.
• Own ongoing prioritization of demand within the assigned product portfolio, balancing business value, operational needs, technical sustainability, risk, dependencies, and available capacity.
• Partner with business stakeholders, Business Analysts, Technical Leads, and delivery teams to define product outcomes, requirements, acceptance criteria, and measures of success.
• Serve as a primary technology relationship leader for designated R&D Commercialization business stakeholders and capability areas.
• Develop a deep understanding of Commercialization business processes, strategic priorities, operational challenges, and emerging technology, data, and AI opportunities.
• Facilitate prioritization discussions that balance stakeholder demand with product strategy, technology capacity, enterprise standards, and expected business value.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap progress, delivery status, risks, dependencies, investment needs, and key decisions to business and technology leadership.
• Directly manage assigned AIN Information Systems staff, including goal setting, performance management, coaching, career development, engagement, and talent planning.
• Recruit, interview, onboard, develop, and retain talent needed to support Commercialization's evolving digital product portfolio.
• Support workforce and capacity planning across Commercialization product teams, including alignment of skills and resources to product demand.
• Foster strong collaboration between AIN and US-based staff and create an integrated global team operating model.
• Champion adoption of Amgen's Digital Product Operating Model (DPOM) within the assigned Commercialization product portfolio.
• Support annual and ongoing technology planning, budgeting, forecasting, and investment management for the assigned product portfolio.
• Develop and maintain business cases and investment recommendations for new capabilities, enhancements, lifecycle needs, and technology modernization.
• Participate actively in PI Planning, roadmap planning, backlog refinement, product reviews, and other key product and Agile ceremonies.
• Monitor roadmap execution and adjust priorities based on business needs, capacity, risk, dependencies, and learning.
• Ensure appropriate ownership of production health, incidents, lifecycle needs, and operational sustainability for assigned products.
• Partner closely with Technical Leads and enterprise architecture teams to ensure product roadmaps account for enterprise technology strategy, architecture standards, security, interoperability, and technical sustainability.
• Promote effective data management and FAIR data principles within product roadmaps and solution design.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities to apply automation, advanced analytics, AI, and emerging technologies to Commercialization business challenges.

What you'll need

• Significant experience in Information Systems, digital technology, product management, technology delivery, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience owning or leading enterprise technology products, applications, platforms, or a portfolio of digital capabilities.
• Experience translating business strategy and stakeholder needs into product roadmaps, priorities, and technology outcomes.
• Demonstrated people-management experience, including coaching, performance management, talent development, and workforce planning.
• Strong business stakeholder relationship and influencing skills, including experience working with senior business and technology leaders.
• Experience working with Agile technology delivery teams and strong understanding of Product Owner responsibilities, backlog management, prioritization, and iterative delivery.
• Ability to balance competing business priorities, operational needs, technical considerations, risk, and finite technology capacity.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading or collaborating with globally distributed teams.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity and organizational change.

Nice to have

• Experience within R&D, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or another highly regulated environment.
• Experience with Digital Product Operating Models (DPOM) or transformation from project-oriented to product-oriented technology delivery.
• Experience operating as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Relationship Manager, or similar client-facing technology leader.
• Experience with SAFe Agile, Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, and scaled product delivery.
• Experience managing technology portfolios spanning applications (Salesforce), data (Databricks), analytics, automation, and AI capabilities.
• Experience with technology investment planning, budgeting, business cases, and portfolio governance.
• Experience managing globally distributed teams, particularly teams operating across United States and India locations.
• Product Owner, SAFe, Agile, or related product management certification is beneficial.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.