Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amgen is a biotech company dedicated to serving patients with serious illnesses. The Executive Director of Marketing AI Capabilities will lead the development and scaling of AI-enabled marketing capabilities, ensuring alignment with emerging trends and internal transformation to drive business impact.
Responsibilities
- Continuously monitor and assess the evolving AI, digital marketing, data, and customer engagement landscape, including emerging technologies, platforms, partners, and competitive trends. This includes novel LLM solutions as well as AI advances in the media ecosystem
- Develop and maintain an understanding of how AI is changing the HCP and Patient workflow and identify the shifts in customer behaviors, content consumption, channel dynamics, and personalization expectations
- Translate external market developments into actionable enterprise capability strategies and roadmaps
- Serve as a thought leader and strategic advisor to senior leadership on the future of AI-enabled marketing
- Define and lead the enterprise roadmap for scalable AI-enabled marketing capabilities across the commercial organization
- Design future-state marketing operating models, workflows, governance structures, and processes that embed AI into day-to-day execution
- Establish enterprise relationship management models for preferred partners and drive coordination of initiatives across functions
- Establish frameworks for capability prioritization, experimentation, scaling, and adoption
- Partner with business, technology, data, legal, compliance, and operations teams to ensure capabilities are enterprise-ready and compliant
- Drive alignment between AI capabilities and broader commercial, omnichannel, and customer engagement strategies
- Evaluate and manage strategic partnerships with AI vendors, platform providers, agencies, consultancies, and emerging technology companies
- Lead pilot programs and proof-of-concept initiatives to assess new capabilities and accelerate innovation
- Build scalable approaches for integrating external solutions into Amgen’s marketing ecosystem
- Represent Amgen externally with industry groups, innovation forums, and strategic partners
- Drive organizational readiness and adoption of AI-enabled ways of working
- Develop enablement strategies, talent models, and capability-building programs to increase AI fluency across marketing teams
- Foster a culture of experimentation, agility, and responsible innovation
- Lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders across commercial, digital, medical, technology, and operations organizations
- Establish governance models, standards, and guardrails for responsible and compliant AI usage in marketing
- Define KPIs and measurement frameworks to evaluate capability effectiveness, adoption, efficiency gains, and business impact
- Ensure alignment with enterprise data privacy, legal, regulatory, and ethical AI requirements
- Drive continuous optimization and scaling of successful AI-enabled capabilities
Skills
- Doctorate degree & 6 years of marketing experience OR
- Master's degree & 10 years of marketing experience OR
- Bachelor's degree & 12 years of marketing experience AND
- 6 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs or directing the allocation of resources
- Understanding of the evolving AI ecosystem, including generative AI, agentic workflows, personalization, content automation, and marketing technology platforms
- Experience building and scaling enterprise capabilities, operating models, or transformation programs within complex organizations
- Understanding of omnichannel marketing, customer engagement, and commercial operations
- Leading cross-functional transformation initiatives that span business and technology organizations
- Experience evaluating and managing strategic technology and innovation partnerships
- Executive communication and stakeholder influence skills
- Ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution
- Ability to inspire change, driving internal and external impact
- Enterprise mindset with strategic foresight
- Builder mentality with a bias toward execution and scalability
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and emerging technologies
- Collaborative and highly influential across functions and levels
- Curious, pragmatic, and outcome-oriented
- Passion for innovation, transformation, and continuous learning
Benefits
- 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 and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
- Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies
Company Overview
Amgen is a biotechnology company that develops and manufactures human therapeutics for various illnesses and diseases. It was founded in 1980, and is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.amgen.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Amgen has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 42 in 2026, 429 in 2025, 485 in 2024, 485 in 2023, 540 in 2022, 460 in 2021, 444 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.