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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.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The Technology organization enables and accelerates the company’s growth strategies, delivering global capabilities and services in support of Amex’s customers and colleagues, while maintaining 24/7 servicing and availability to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality customer experience. Technology provides the foundation for everything we do in the company while driving differentiation through building and leveraging innovative technology and data insights.

The Enterprise CRM Solutions team was created in 2024 as part of the company’s Framework for Winning. Core to our purpose is reimagining the platform solution-delivery model to dramatically improve our strategic agility, speed to market, effectiveness of delivery and transparency. The Enterprise Customer Relationship Management Solutions (ECRMS) team creates solutions for the Sales and Customer Domain via respective platforms by harnessing the power of Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence to offer powerful selling and re-selling engines to acquire new clients and expand existing client relationships for Sales, Account Development, and Marketers across the Enterprise.

Role Summary

The Director role will lead the Platform Owner (PO) team supporting US-based Salesforce development teams within the Sales Domain Product Organization. This leader will be accountable for embedding POs directly into scrum teams (ensuring 100% PO-to-scrum alignment), driving backlog quality, and ensuring scalable, enterprise-aligned delivery of CRM capabilities. They will partner closely with Product Managers to translate business strategies into executable work, maintain velocity and quality across sprints, and enforce agile best practices and delivery standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Platform Owners, fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and delivery excellence.

• Oversee backlog quality and execution across multiple scrum teams, ensuring sprint commitments are clear, feasible, and aligned to enterprise architecture.

• Partner with Product Managers to ensure technical delivery ladders into business strategy and enterprise priorities.

• Monitor and report on velocity, quality, adoption, and risks, ensuring backlogs remain healthy and delivery is consistent.

• Uphold agile best practices, backlog hygiene, and release quality standards.

• Serve as a trusted partner to engineering, ensuring scalable, dependable, and well-documented platforms.

Qualifications:

• 8 years in product/platform management, agile delivery, or engineering leadership.

• Experience managing distributed teams across multiple geographies.

• Strong background in Salesforce platforms (Service Cloud, Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud) or equivalent CRM ecosystems preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across product, tech, and business.

• Skilled in backlog management, agile delivery, and connecting execution to strategic business outcomes.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $150,000.00 to $225,000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) 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: Product

Primary Location: US-New York-New York

Other Locations: US-Florida-Sunrise, US-Georgia-Atlanta

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25017119