Protein Design Product Owner

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. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity 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.  

Protein Design Product Owner 

What you will do 

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Within Amgen’s Research and Development organization, the Therapeutic Protein Design (TPD) team supports the broad goal of advancing and applying computational protein design to revolutionize how biologic therapeutics are made.  

In this vital role you will own protein design as a product, building the planning structures and workflow organization tools required to support a cross-functional team of scientists and engineers that are engaged in building and applying frontier models for protein design. You will:   

• Take big picture responsibility, capturing requirements and building roadmaps to ensure the team knows exactly what to build next.  

• Balance team resources between two critical types of deliverable: the platform tools we use, and the therapeutic molecules we develop for patients. 

• Build automations to capture, organize, and communicate work both for the team and for leadership . 

• Collaborate with computational and experimental scientists to establish these processes as a foundation of the discovery pipeline.  

• Work towards individual ownership and a leadership role in building how Amgen delivers results. 

What we expect of you 

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The driven professional we seek is a highly collaborative and confident researcher with these qualifications.  

Basic Qualifications: 

Doctorate degree  
OR 
Master’s degree and 2 years of product ownership experience 
OR 
Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of product ownership experience  
OR 
Associate’s degree and 8 years of product ownership experience  
 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with product ownership related to machine learning or therapeutic development, and advanced education in one of the following: Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computational Biology 

• A strong background in workflow planning 

• Experience building automations for workflow tracking tools like Jira 

• Familiarity with UNIX/Linux, Python, PyTorch, Git, and cloud computing platforms 

• Experience working with biological data, and in applications of machine learning to computational biology 

• Familiarity with  protein design workflows 

• Strong communication, project management and technical leadership skills with an enthusiasm for working in an interdisciplinary team environment. 

What you can expect from us  

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.  

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.  

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities that may include:  

• 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 where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies. 

Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team.  

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Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.