Senior Director, R&D Strategic Communications

Senior Director, R&D Strategic Communications

Join Amgen's Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, 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.

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.

What You Will Do

We're seeking a bold, strategic, and forward-thinking Senior Director, R&D Strategic Communications, to lead a newly established team that will function as an internal communications agency, responsible for both external and internal audiences, amplifying the voice of our science, enhancing our innovation reputation, and connecting our people to purpose.

This Thousand Oaks-based role sits at the intersection of R&D strategy, scientific storytelling, employee engagement, and external reputation-building.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-paced, high-performing Strategic Communications team that brings together content creators, internal comms experts, science writers, and digital strategists to the entirety of the R&D organization from discovery to development.
• Architect a compelling, unifying R&D narrative that brings clarity to our work, drives reputational value externally, and strengthens culture internally.
• Oversee content strategy and editorial planning across platforms—web, social, video, executive communications, internal channels, events, and more.
• Drive alignment and editorial consistency across functions, channels, and geographies.
• Champion innovation in how we communicate—leveraging AI, data insights, and emerging tools to elevate storytelling, refine strategies, optimize content delivery, and measure impact.

What We Expect Of You

You are both a strategist and a doer. You see what's coming next and prepare your team accordingly. You're credible with scientists, respected by executives, and creative enough to reinvent how we tell the story of science.

Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate degree and 5 years of communications or public affairs experience
• Or Master's degree and 8 years of experience
• Or Bachelor's degree and 10 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent scientific or medical training strongly preferred—you'll be leading a team that interacts with world-leading scientists and researchers at Amgen to communicate scientific innovation.
• Demonstrated leadership in strategic communications, within a life-sciences, medical, or innovation-led organization.
• Proven success in building and scaling communications functions or teams.
• Experience crafting narratives that drive external reputation while building internal connection and pride.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.