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You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let’s lead the way together.

The core of our company is not just the products we offer, but the personal connections our customers have with our brand. You can create digital experiences–from payments to rewards to servicing–that keep us connected to our customers and serve them at every touchpoint. From digital servicing and lifestyle features to secure, frictionless payment options, you can make a meaningful difference in our customers’ lives and help set us apart in the industry. Find your place in digital product on #TeamAmex.

Amex Digital Labs is responsible for catalyzing digital innovation by originating, incubating, and managing emerging products and platforms that can be essential to our customers’ digital lives. We strive to emphasize creativity, customer centricity, and innovation. Focus areas include crafting industry-leading digital payment solutions, using our outstanding servicing network and lifestyle assets to build digital experiences, and defining new products and services based on emerging technologies and trends.

This Senior Manager role will focus on supporting product governance across Amex Digital Labs. The successful candidate will serve as the central business contact to lead audits and drive process improvement efficiencies, while balancing the critical need for controls and risk mitigation, for key strategic projects on behalf of Amex Digital Labs. This person will develop a deep understanding of product governance and exhibit strong subject matter expertise in key Amex policies and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Support audit program management across Digital Labs

• Coordinate audit-related inquiries and exams, including Internal Compliance Testing (ICT), Internal Audit Group (IAG), and other ad hoc audit needs

• Partner with all relevant product owners and stakeholder teams to satisfy requests timely and comprehensively

• Facilitate readiness and knowledge share activities across Labs

• Lead process improvement projects focused in centralized governance function, in partnership with Control Management and Compliance, on the following programs:

• Data retention and declaration

• Regulatory Change Management

• Operational Risk Events Program framework

• Contribute to process improvement by identifying gaps, developing toolkits and resources, and reengineering activities to optimize efficacy of the product and business control environment

• Proactively anticipate risks/issues and ensure appropriate mitigation planning is in place to avoid compromising delivery

Minimum Qualifications:

• Outstanding interpersonal, communication, and negotiation sills with the ability to influence partners across a wide variety of functions

• Strong agency, can handle ambiguity in a fast-moving organization, and thrives on a high level of autonomy and responsibility

• Ability to drive results against timelines, prioritize, and execute flawlessly

• Demonstrated strategic, critical, and creative thinking to problem-solve obstacles and develop winning solutions

• Self-starter that can excel in a dynamic environment by driving decision-making, working well under pressure, and adapting to frequent change

• Excellent relationship-building with partners and across internal stakeholders

• Proven track record in crafting and storytelling via PowerPoint presentations

• Possess intellectual curiosity about the evolving digital, mobile, and alternatives payments space and innovative membership experiences

• Bachelor's Degree required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience in leading audit-related inquiries or exams a plus

• MBA a plus

Qualifications

Salary Range: $90,000.00 to $165,000.00 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 our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% 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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• Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

Job: Product

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25007627