Director, Marketing AI Capabilities

Thousand Oaks, CA (Remote)

$213K/yr – $288K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the future of Amgen's marketing AI strategy by monitoring external landscape, shaping capability roadmaps, piloting and scaling AI-enabled initiatives, and leading cross-functional change across commercial teams.

  • Define external landscape monitoring and strategy translation
  • Lead pilots and partnerships with AI vendors
  • Drive organizational enablement and talent development for AI-enabled marketing

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • External Landscape & Strategic Foresight: Monitor and assess the evolving AI, digital marketing, data, and customer engagement landscape, including emerging technologies, platforms, partners, and competitive trends
  • Identify disruptive shifts in customer behaviors, content consumption, channel dynamics, and personalization expectations
  • Translate external market developments into actionable marketing capability strategies
  • Future of Marketing Design, Development and Implementation: Work across functions to lead the execution of the Future of Marketing strategy, including the development and implementation of new technology, operating models, and innovative external partnerships
  • Lead the design and development of critical technology initiatives, including the Marketing Command Center, and play an advisory role to enabling Neural Nexis initiatives
  • Design future-state marketing operating models, workflows, governance structures, and processes that embed AI into day-to-day execution
  • Ensure talent initiatives align with the future marketer vision and AI-enabled capabilities
  • External Enterprise Partnerships & Innovation Pilot Management: Manage existing strategic enterprise partnerships and evaluate new 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

Requirements

  • Doctorate degree and 4 years of marketing, digital, technology, or commercial operations experience OR
  • Master’s degree and 6 years of marketing, digital, technology, or commercial operations experience OR
  • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of marketing, digital, technology, or commercial operations experience
  • In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have at least 5 years' experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation or resources.

Preferred

  • Understanding of the evolving AI ecosystem, including generative AI, agentic workflows, personalization, content automation, and marketing technology platforms
  • Strong understanding of omnichannel marketing, customer engagement, and commercial operations
  • Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives that span business and technology organizations
  • Experience evaluating and managing strategic enterprise partnerships
  • Strong track record of inspiring change and driving internal and external impact
  • Strong executive communication and stakeholder influence skills
  • Ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution
  • Enterprise mindset with strong strategic foresight
  • Builder mentality with a bias toward execution and scalability
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and emerging technologies

Benefits

  • 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, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

Amgen

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Thousand Oaks, California, USA
37K employees (1,491 in marketing)
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89% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$213K/yr – $288K/yr

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$152K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
1,259 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
24

Funding

Total Funding
$28.5B
Last Raise
Post IPO Debt, 3 years ago

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
512K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.7%
Direct
42.4%
Referral
7.2%
Social
9.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~38.1K

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