Target Validation Sr Director

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. 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.

Let's do this. Let's change the world. In this vital role as Senior Director, Global Research – Target Discovery you will have the opportunity to shape and lead Amgen's Target Validation Unit within Research Biology.

This research based Senior Director role will be responsible for building, leading and developing a multidisciplinary team that implements the most cutting-edge experimental and computational science and technologies to address and solve complex biological problems related to target discovery for multiple therapeutic areas.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary organization of ~25 scientists within Research Biology
• Integrate diverse experimental disciplines and workflows to ensure coordinated execution and efficient delivery of novel molecular insights
• Establish platform priorities, resource allocation, and capacity planning in alignment with Research Biology and Therapeutic Area priorities
• Define clear roles, responsibilities, and seamless handoffs across teams and partnering organizations
• Drive adoption of automated experimental workflows, and integration of AI/ML to enable efficient experimentation across programs
• Serve as a senior scientific partner to Target Discovery and Therapeutic Areas
• Set clear expectations and enable scientists with diverse skill sets to collaborate effectively and contribute to early research pipeline
• Serve as a core member of Target Discovery Advisory Forum, and play a key role in target discovery, validation and prioritization. Engage, influence, and align therapeutic area stakeholders.
• Guide team members in synthesizing and communicating complex scientific and data-driven insights to key stakeholders and advisory forum.
• Contribute to fostering a highly collaborative, creative, dynamic and cutting-edge research environment

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The candidate we seek is an experienced scientific leader with the following qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

Doctorate degree PhD in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, computational biology, immunology, oncology, metabolism or a relevant discipline and 7 years of scientific leadership experience in biotech, pharma or equivalent research environments

OR

Master's degree in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, computational biology, immunology, oncology, metabolism or a relevant discipline and 10 years of scientific leadership experience in biotech, pharma or equivalent research environments

OR

Bachelor's degree in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, computational biology, immunology, oncology, metabolism or a relevant discipline and 12 years of scientific leadership experience in biotech, pharma or equivalent research environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading mechanistic discovery research programs and
  -omics platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate experimental science with enterprise data, analytics, or AI/ML capabilities.

• Appreciation for and experience with application of genetics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, structural and AI/ML approaches to biological research.
• Proven track record of scientific impact in molecular,…