Executive Director, Marketing AI Capabilities

Thousand Oaks, CA (Remote)

$289K/yr – $390K/yrDirector/Executive

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the future of AI enabled marketing with a focus on scanning the AI landscape, shaping enterprise capabilities, and piloting external partnerships to accelerate innovation.

  • External Landscape & Strategic Foresight: monitor AI driven marketing shifts and translate them into action for capability roadmaps.
  • AI Capability Development: design enterprise operating models and governance to embed AI into daily marketing work.
  • Innovation & Ecosystem: lead pilots with partners, and architect scalable integrations into Amgen’s marketing stack.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • External Landscape & Strategic Foresight: Continuously monitor AI, digital marketing, data, and customer engagement landscape, including emerging technologies, platforms, partners, and competitive trends; identify shifts in HCP/Patient workflows and customer behavior.
  • AI Capability Development & Operating Model Design: Define the enterprise roadmap for scalable AI-enabled marketing capabilities and design future-state operating models and governance for day-to-day execution.
  • Innovation, Partnerships & Ecosystem Management: Evaluate partnerships with AI vendors and agencies, lead pilots to assess new capabilities, and build scalable integration approaches into Amgen’s marketing ecosystem.
  • Change Leadership & Organizational Enablement: Drive organizational readiness and adoption of AI-enabled ways of working and develop enablement strategies and capability-building programs.

Requirements

  • 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

Preferred

  • 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

Benefits

  • From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.
  • 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

Amgen

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Amgen harnesses the best of biology and technology to fight the world’s toughest diseases, and make people’s lives easier, fuller and longer. We helped establish the biotechnology industry, and we remain on the cutting-edge of innovation, using technology and human genetic data to push beyond what’s known today. Our investment in research and development has yielded a robust pipeline that builds on our existing portfolio of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, inflammatory diseases and rare diseases.Amgen is one of 30 companies comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average®, and part of the Nasdaq-100 Index®. In 2024, Amgen was named one of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company and one of “America’s Best Large Employers” by Forbes.For more information, visit Amgen.com and follow us on X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and Threads. 🔗 Community Guidelines: https://wwwext.amgen.com/community-guidelines🔗Global Privacy Statement Directory: www.amgen.com/dpSpecial Advisory: Please be cautious of scam recruitment offers claiming to be from Amgen. Such scams may come from various sources, including fake websites and/or unsolicited emails and seek to obtain personal data or payment from victims by offering jobs that do not exist. Please be advised that Amgen would never ask for payment to progress a job application. When in doubt, please check to see if the position in question is posted on this website before applying. Additionally, please report any suspicious recruiting activity to https://complaint.ic3.gov/ and thank you for your assistance.

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