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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.

Role Description:

The Senior Product Manager at American Express drives innovation in Enterprise Metadata Management Platforms, owning vision, roadmap, enabling secure, scalable, and compliant data ecosystems. We leverage cutting-edge technology, including AI-driven solutions, to manage metadata across diverse data landscapes, ensuring robust data management, governance, lineage tracking, and quality controls that power data-driven decision-making. You will lead cross-functional efforts to define, develop, and deliver metadata management solutions that align with enterprise data strategies and regulatory requirements and scale adoption. This role partners closely with data governance teams, engineering squads, and business stakeholders to build and evolve platforms that handle complex, high-volume data environments, incorporating AI for enhanced automation and insights.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and deliver the multi-year product strategy with clear OKRs, value metrics.

• Lead cross-functional Agile squads, manage backlog, PRDs/epics/stories, and ship high-quality, iterative releases.

• Build “enterprise metadata management platform” enabling discovery, lineage, data quality, retention and deletion, classification, and policy enforcement across lakes/warehouses/MDM/BI/streaming.

• Drive enterprise-scale harvesting from SQL & No-SQL stores, ETL/ELT, orchestration (Airflow/Control-M), code repos (Java/Python/Go), pipelines (Spark/Beam), cloud services; implement CDC and schema evolution— including embeddings and code-to-lineage inferences .

• Evaluate/integrate vendor and open-source platforms (Collibra/Alation, ATLAN, Foundational.io, Manta/Solidatus, Data Hub. Open Metadata); optimize TCO and make build-vs-buy calls, with AI guardrails and privacy-by-design .

• Define/evolve domain models, taxonomies, glossary, stewardship and certification workflows; enforce RBAC/ABAC, masking, and data minimization with AI suggestion review loops .

• Embed controls aligned maintain audit-ready evidence in products.

• Run adoption/change programs (enablement, docs, office hours, communities of practice) and set guidance on when to trust/review/override AI outputs.

• Manage budgets and portfolio trade-offs; influence senior stakeholders across a complex GSIB landscape.

Qualifications:

• 6 years in technical product management/engineering, including 5 years in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) partnering closely with engineering.

• GSIB/Tier-1 bank experience in data/metadata platforms or data governance with exposure to risk, compliance, and audit examinations.

• Hands-on data/code fluency: strong SQL; RDBMS (Oracle/Postgres/SQL Server) and No-SQL (MongoDB/Cassandra/Bigtable); ability to read/understand Java and Python (Go a plus) and interpret code paths for lineage.

• Deep knowledge of metadata domains: technical metadata, business glossary, lineage, data-quality signals/rules, sensitivity/classification, retention & deletion, stewardship/ownership.

• Proven delivery integrating catalog/lineage/classification tools and building custom connectors/APIs; REST/GraphQL, Kafka/Pub/Sub; microservices on AWS/Azure/GCP with Docker/Kubernetes.

• Practical exposure to AI in metadata (auto-classification/PII, AI-assisted lineage, semantic search) and vector stores (OpenSearch/Elastic/Pinecone/Vertex Matching Engine).

• Demonstrated ability to set OKRs, analyze telemetry, prioritize data-driven roadmaps, and communicate crisply with executives.

• Bachelor’s in computer science, Engineering, or related field (MS/MBA a plus)

Qualifications

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% 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-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25017939