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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.

How will you make an impact in this role?

Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management (EPPM) is a team within Technology responsible for managing multi-year strategic programs that cut across multiple product teams as well as accelerating strategic alignment and planning across Enterprise Centers of Excellence (COE) and Technology to elevate transparency and drive business and customer outcomes.

As Senior Manager, Program Management, you will be supporting the successful co-creation and implementation of this strategy which will re-imagine the relationship between the customer and Amex. You will be responsible for managing the Program’s multiple workstreams including Envisioning & Discovery, Solutions Management, Communications, Roadmap Ideation, Outcome Definition and Critical milestones and dependency management.

The successful candidate must have a keen focus on the customer journey, advanced process design techniques, a proven ability to collaborate on a scale, enjoy a fast-paced environment and can influence key partners into action, all while maintaining a positive attitude in the face of challenges.

The ideal candidate for this role will be a skillful communicator who enjoys a fast-paced environment, operates cross-functionally, has a strong aptitude for process innovation and influences key stakeholders into action – all while maintaining a positive attitude and sense of humor in the face of challenges. This role reports into the Director, Digital Program Management.

Key Responsibilities - (Digital Program Management):

• Support highly visible Enterprise Digital (ED) and cross-COE strategic initiatives, working cross- functionally to structure problems, analyze opportunities, and develop actionable recommendation

• Manage recurring communications and support executive materials creation to ensure transparency and collective understanding

• Collaborate and partner across ED and cross-COE and enable a best-in-class operating model

• Support multi-year roadmap, managing dependencies and proactively mitigating risk

• Manage the broader program roadmap with priorities clearly aligned to business objectives

• Partner closely with leadership to refine stakeholder communications and manage partner expectation

• Demonstrate a willingness to continually learn and continuously implement frameworks and process improvements within a dynamic and highly matrixed environment

• Contribute to a strong team culture of collaboration and excellence

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience working across product development and engineering teams

• Possesses an “MVP” mindset and strong understanding in Agile product development methodologies, platform and channel interdependencies and can influence a broad set of stakeholders leveraging enterprise collaboration too

• Highly skilled at managing multiple priorities, adhering to strict deadlines and collaborating well across different areas of the organization to deliver outcomes

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire partners to support collaboration and alignment

• Operates with a customer-centric mentality with the ability to understand as well as articulate & evangelize the customer’s needs

• Resilient problem solver that is comfortable managing shifting priorities and navigating through ambiguity

• Demonstrates a creative and highly collaborative approach to solving problems

• Ability to maintain a positive attitude and sense of humor in the face of challenges

Qualifications

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 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 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: Technology

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25015870