Director, Digital Product Management, Commercial IT

About This Role: 

As the Director of Digital Product Management within our BNA Commercial IT team, you will hold a strategic leadership position pivotal to establishing enterprise-grade digital product management capabilities. Your role involves scaling modern agile delivery frameworks, specifically SAFe, to drive operational excellence across highly complex commercial platforms. You will be the premier authority on digital product lifecycle execution, bridging high-level business strategy with technical execution. Leading a dedicated team of Solution Delivery Leads and techno-functional analysts, your focus will be on eliminating operational inefficiencies, optimizing business workflows, and fostering a delivery ecosystem that maximizes platform value and commercial readiness. This position is integral to our organizational switch to a SAFe delivery model, ensuring alignment with our overarching business strategy.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead, develop, and coach Solution Delivery Leads and techno-functional analysts, ensuring performance and delivery accountability.
• Define product vision, roadmap priorities, backlog management, and strategies for value realization as the Product Owner for Patient Engagement platforms.
• Drive business process assessments and workflow optimization to improve efficiency and user experience in patient services and commercial operations.
• Establish and mature SAFe delivery practices, governance standards, KPIs, and continuous improvement disciplines.
• Act as a strategic liaison, aligning business stakeholders, digital strategy teams, delivery organizations, and external vendors.
• Lead platform stabilization, business readiness, adoption initiatives, and post-launch optimization.
• Govern product management best practices across the portfolio.
• Coordinate platform delivery, architecture decisions, vendor management, and release planning.
• Establish governance, operating models, portfolio performance measures, and business readiness frameworks.
• Balance competing priorities across various teams while maintaining delivery commitments.
• Drive organizational transformation through SAFe adoption and modernization of legacy delivery frameworks.

Who You Are: 

You are a visionary leader with a knack for translating business strategy into actionable product management execution. Your ability to balance competing priorities across multiple teams while maintaining a laser focus on delivery commitments makes you an asset. You thrive on optimizing large-scale platforms and vendor-integrated ecosystems, ensuring seamless business operations. Your expertise in driving organizational transformation through agile methodologies showcases your dedication to continuous improvement. You excel in fostering strong collaborative relationships, aligning cross-functional teams towards achieving strategic objectives.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related technical/scientific discipline.
• 12+ years of progressive IT leadership and digital product management experience.
• Demonstrated experience within Life Sciences, Biotech, or Pharmaceutical industries.
• Proven experience implementing and scaling SAFe methodologies.
• Expertise with Salesforce Health Cloud, Patient Engagement platforms, CRM ecosystems, and related healthcare technology solutions.
• Strong leadership experience in leading multi-disciplinary product and delivery teams.
• Demonstrated success in driving product ownership, delivery governance, and operational transformation.

Preferred Skills:

• Highly preferred certifications include SAFe, Scrum, and Salesforce certifications.
• Experience in strategic roadmap development and execution excellence.

Additional Information

Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.

Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance. 

In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
• Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement 
• Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
• A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
• Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance 
• 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit 
• 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan 
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year 
• Employee Resource Groups participation

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about Biogen.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.