Corporate Affairs, Social Media Strategy, Associate Director

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.

Corporate Affairs, Social Media Strategy, Associate Director

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will be a strategic, audience-first and digitally fluent Associate Director, Social Media to help lead the evolution of Amgen’s corporate social media strategy and presence. This role will help define how Amgen shows up across its corporate social channels, building trust, strengthening reputation and engaging priority audiences through compelling, social-first storytelling that supports enterprise business and communications priorities.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Social & Digital Media within the External Engagement team, the Associate Director will lead the ongoing development and execution of Amgen’s corporate social media strategy, channel roadmap, operating model, distribution approach and measurement framework. The role will translate enterprise priorities into clear channel, editorial and engagement strategies; use audience intelligence, social listening, competitive and cultural insights, and performance data to drive decisions;

and continually evolve Amgen’s approach as platforms, technology and online behaviors change.

The Associate Director will partner closely across Corporate Affairs and with Law, Regulatory, Compliance, Privacy, Security, agency and technology partners. This individual will bring strong strategic judgment and a deep understanding of the opportunities and responsibilities of social media in a highly regulated, reputation-sensitive environment, ensuring Amgen’s approach is innovative, audience-relevant and appropriately governed.

Responsibilities

• Lead Amgen’s corporate social media strategy, channel roadmap, and operating model.
• Advise on audience behavior, platform trends, digital culture, AI, and reputational risks.
• Translate audience insights into effective content, channel, and engagement strategies.
• Drive social-first storytelling, content strategy, and paid/organic distribution.
• Integrate social media into enterprise communications, executive thought leadership, and major corporate initiatives.
• Lead the employee social ambassador program and strengthen cross-channel audience engagement.
• Establish social media policies, governance, and compliance standards.
• Oversee channel operations, community management, moderation, and risk escalation.
• Support issues management and crisis communications through social insights and rapid response.
• Lead social listening, competitive intelligence, and audience insights.
• Measure performance and optimize strategy using data-driven recommendations.
• Drive responsible adoption of AI and emerging…