At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

How will you make an impact in this role?

We are looking for a unique individual who is customer-focused and can both think strategically and execute successfully.  This individual will need to excel at conceptual thought leadership, effectively influence partners to align behind a vision, and thrive in a fast paced and ever-changing environment to bring these concepts to life.  A broad spectrum of skills is required, including strategy and concept development, process design, project management, implementation experience, building and leveraging relationships partners to drive results.

This is a great opportunity to shape the future direction of American Express’ value to our commercial customers while learning our core business, marketing, and technology functions through close partnerships with all the teams required to launch products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the launch of new products, benefits, and marketing capabilities working across all card products

• Provide thought leadership during concept development, end-to-end user experience design, and feasibility assessment
• Manage key operational processes and integrations by collaborating and managing relationships with partners in Product Management, Marketing, Technology, Risk, Servicing, Legal and Compliance
• Understand business objectives and customer needs and identify creative ways to leverage technological capabilities and/or other creative solutions to meet those needs
• Lead GCS-wide strategic initiatives to drive business results, improve customer experiences, and increase agility in product development

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to identify and understand business needs and turn them into technology requirements; ability to understand the details of complex processes and an orientation toward process improvement and innovation
• Extremely strong project management, collaboration, communication and presentation skills
• Motivated self-starter with a sense of urgency, positive attitude, and the ability to excel in a fast paced and dynamic environment
• Creative and innovative thinker who is comfortable with ambiguity and evolving strategies
• Demonstrated ability to drive results in a highly matrixed organization, capable of influencing and building internal alignment across multiple lines of business and support groups
• Passion for doing what is right for the customer

• Embodies a "team" mentality in all that you do, with a validated ability to take ownership for progressing project delivery

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to manage end-to-end product development process in a highly disciplined fashion
• Prior experience with payments and agile product development / delivery

Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries 
• Bonus incentives 
• 6%25 Company Match on retirement savings plan 
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits 
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need 
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy 
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location) 
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program 
• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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