Strategic Product Manager - Knowledge Integration & Articulation (Hybrid)

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at  . Follow @abbvie on  X ,  Facebook ,  Instagram ,  YouTube ,  LinkedIn and  Tik Tok .

Job Description

As a Strategic Product Manager in the AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS) organization, you contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better. 

This position will be onsite 3 days a week and virtual 2 days a week. 

About our team:

The Knowledge Integration & Articulation (KIA) team delivers technologies and content to advance company-wide understanding and re-use of knowledge. This includes sub-teams covering:  

• controlled vocabularies & ontologies and related systems 

• translation and multilingual content generation capabilities 

• published content and formalized internal insights which integrate with AbbVie’s enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform and other business solutions & processes. 

KIA is part of AbbVie's Enterprise Knowledge Accelerator (EKA), the trusted knowledge partner for clients across AbbVie, with a focus on R&D and the Corporate Business & Strategy Office (CBSO). EKA drives decision making and fuels AbbVie’s AI with published and internal knowledge. The team is global, with presences at the Lake County, Illinois headquarters; Boston, Massachusetts area (US); and Ludwigshafen site (Germany). EKA leverages leading technologies and methods to provide AbbVie with industry-best capabilities in extracting insights from published content, and as part of AbbVie's global Information Research (IR) group shares its mission to unlock information that makes cures possible. 

Your role:

As a Strategic Product Manager, you drive the success of knowledge integration solutions by bridging business goals with technical delivery. 

You will coordinate key programs focused on ontologies, language solutions, and published knowledge integration, facilitating the process to develop product direction and orchestrate delivery. You will develop long-term strategies, coordinate cross-functional teams, and implement process improvements to enhance enterprise knowledge with our KIA team leads. Your daily focus includes facilitating collaboration, advancing strategic projects, and promoting ongoing improvement to maximize customer and business value in a fast-paced data-driven environment. 
Closely working with our central Artificial Intelligence team (EPIC), you ensure that AbbVie’s enterprise AI frameworks are leveraged to deliver our services and that the knowledge we manage is closely integrated and consumable through chat and agentic workflows. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and communicate product vision and strategy for knowledge integration initiatives, aligning team efforts with business and customer needs to deliver business value 

• Work with team leads to surface opportunities leveraging advanced GenAI approaches 

• Build and prioritize product roadmaps, backlogs, and epics, translating business and technical requirements into clear tasks and acceptance criteria 

• Coordinate the execution of ongoing software development and service projects, ensuring effective allocation of resources and timely delivery 

• Track project progress and report outcomes, developing and utilizing KPIs to measure success and identify areas for improvement in team coordination and customer engagement. 

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) and support team alignment on product goals 

• Build cooperative relationships with customers, partners and other stakeholders across the enterprise, serving as the key point-of-contact for KIA in the US 

• Identify opportunities for expanding language and translation product reach, especially in key regions like US & LATAM, supporting onboarding and customer engagement strategies to increase ecosystem adoption 

• Serve as the contact point for stakeholder updates, project transparency, and feedback loops 

• Advocate for efficient knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across the teams 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 7 years’ experience OR Master’s degree with 6 years' experience OR PhD with 2 years' experience in product management, product ownership, or project coordination in technical/data-centric environments 
• Experience leading Agile teams, coach others in Agile methodologies, and drive organizational change towards the product operating model. 
• Working knowledge of ontology design, FAIR principles, and data/metadata standards 
• Basic understanding of terminology management preferred 
• Experience working with language/translation solutions preferred, including translation management systems 
• Excellent communication skills — capable of translating complex concepts for different audiences 
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities 
• Understanding of and respect for cultural differences, especially with the global nature of the team's work and the focus on the US market. 
• Deep familiarity with Agile/Scrum processes and tools (Jira, Confluence) 
• Proficiency with MS 360 tools (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, PowerPoint) 
• Experience within pharmaceutical R&D or scientific domains a plus 

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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