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Description

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.

About American Express Ventures

American Express Ventures (“Amex Ventures”) is the corporate venture capital arm of American Express focused on early-stage (primarily Seed – Series B) investments across fintech, commerce, consumer services and enterprise software. With a global mandate, Amex Ventures invests in game-changing startups with strategic relevance to American Express. The team also works with portfolio companies and startups to commercialize partnerships with American Express business units.

Amex Ventures has backed more than 100 category-defining founders in its 10 year history. Notable investments include Biocatch, Blackbird Labs, Galileo, Melio, Menlo Security, Nekuda, Plaid, Stripe, Toast and Wonder among others.

The Amex Ventures Business Development (BD) team amplifies and accelerates Amex Ventures’ mission by engaging in core BD activities across the investment funnel to differentiate in the startup ecosystem. The BD team is seeking a highly motivated individual to develop, manage, and drive execution of key business development (BD) processes & programs.

The role is based in New York, NY or San Francisco, California.

Job Scope & Responsibilities

In this exciting opportunity, the Business Development and Operations Senior Analyst will be an integral part of Amex Ventures, playing a key role in the day-to-day core business development activities including startup partnership program management, process management, reporting, VC engagement, and marketing & event support. The Business Development and Operations Senior Analyst will support our investor teams on startup & business unit engagement and reporting.

Primary responsibilities

• Support ongoing management of our formal startup partnership program, working closely with investors to solidify and track commercialization

• Serve as startup partnership expert across our team, including defining, tracking, analyzing results across our portfolio

• Own all end to end reporting and tracking against all BD workstreams, including but not limited to startup engagement, VC network, event performance

• Lead evaluation and potential adoption of AI tools & processes to drive efficiencies & learning within Ventures team

• Provide executional support across BD programs (events, marketing)

• Manage BD team playbook documenting processes around key team initiatives

• Assisting in development of content for senior leadership and external facing meetings

• Build out startup/ VC ecosystem network to support team objectives

• Support development of strategically relevant investment areas via startup sourcing from VCs, participating in startup & American Express business meetings, partnership idea generation

Qualifications

• The role is a multi-faceted one and requires both analytical, strategic, and interpersonal skill sets

• Displays program management excellence with experience & interest in working with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, accountability, and tracking

• Strong quantitative skills with ability to interpret, manipulate, and derive insights from data

• Strong proficiency in leveraging AI tools to enhance day to day work and interest in engaging with new AI technologies

• Natural problem solver who enjoys building systems and processes

• Excellent research skills with experience conducting in-depth market, industry, and competitor analysis.

• Strong interpersonal skills with a proven ability to build and maintain relationships across various levels of an organization and externally. Existing relationships in the tech/ startup ecosystem preferred but not required.

• Track record of working independently and as part of a team in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• At least 1 years previous experience in a role with quantitative analysis, research, technological understanding and/or business development

• Strategic skills, with the ability to identify and assess key points, implications and recommendations and to provide thought leadership

• Interest in the venture capital and startup ecosystem

• A deep passion and appetite to contribute to a company with a rich legacy of innovation

• Ability to understand and synthesize technical information related to the startup ecosystem, such as cloud computing, GenAI, DevOps, and infrastructure is a plus

• Experience using CRM & portfolio support tools including, Affinity, Cobalt a plus

• Bachelor’s degree required

Qualifications

Salary Range: $78,000.00 to $124,750.00 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% 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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Job: Marketing

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-California-San Francisco

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25017831