**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?**

Global Merchant & Network Services (GMNS) brings together American Express' merchant-and-network related businesses to enable a sharp focus on using the power of our network to provide unique value to all our mutual customers. The organization manages the relationships with the millions of merchants around the world that accepts American Express and runs the company’s payment network and manages bank partnerships globally.

Network & Acquirer Solutions (NAS) within GMNS drives the development of new payment services and products for the American Express Global Network Issuers, Acquirers and Merchants and is responsible for the operation of the payment network, safely and securely processing more than ~$1.6 trillion in transaction volume globally each year.

The Acquirer Digital Product & Capability team within NAS organization is at the heart of the proprietary transaction process. We power billions of transactions resulting in merchants being paid and continuing to welcome American Express cardmembers and their cards. The Digital Merchant Experience (DMX) team is dedicated to helping American Express to leverage enterprise-wide capabilities and assets to strengthen our digital servicing products and become an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.

**About the role**

Reporting to the Director of Digital Merchant Experience (Core Servicing Products), the Senior Manager, Digital Product Management will be responsible for delivering the self-servicing experiences that Merchants leverage to manage their Amex relationship. This role is part of a broader team that provides the digital tools, insights and support to help merchants of all sizes manage every aspect of their American Express relationship securely and efficiently.

The Senior Manager, Digital Product Management has ultimate responsibility for delivering the product backlog working with business, markets, compliance, design and engineering to realize the product vision driving a well-managed development roadmap with set release cycles. This role will be integral for transforming the Digital Self-Servicing experience building value-ad capabilities for DMX Customers. This is an evolving space and offers an exciting opportunity to chart a strategic course for Amex to back our merchants through effective and engaging digital products.

You will work among high performing product, process, and engineering teams obsessed with problem solving. You will have a passion to drill down to the core problem statement for our customers and offer digital solutions. Working with our partners you will develop Capability roadmaps and prioritize features that optimize shareholder value while solving customer problems. You will enjoy being challenged in a fun, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive team environment.

**Key Job Responsibilities:**

+ Define product vision, strategy & roadmap understanding end user needs to enable intuitive and value-ad digital experience

+ Continuously engage with partners and stakeholders to review growth opportunities for the product to increase digital engagement

+ Leverage quantitative and qualitative data to understand customer behavior to drive informed product decisions

+ Demonstrate learning agility, ability to make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity

+ Extensive experience developing new product concepts, managing a complex backlog, and working closely with scrum teams to assess development feasibility

+ Managing the product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution closely partnering with business, design and engineering teams

+ Define OKRs, collect and report product metrics that are clear and concise to articulate the impact of decisions and growth projections

+ Partner closely with Technologies to translate Business requirements into solutions that meet customer’s needs.

+ Work closely with your partners and colleagues to create and maintain a feature backlog

+ Assess value, develop use cases and prioritize features and user stories to ensure that work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with the product strategy

+ Craft high quality user stories with robust acceptance criteria

+ Take a leading role in the iteration planning and product release plans, creating clear sprint/increment goals

+ Take a leading role in delivery of features as they progress through the development lifecycle, mitigating impediments and tracking completion against sprint/increment goals

+ In-depth knowledge of Agile processes and principles: backlog refinement, sprint planning, writing user stories, MVP, sprint demos

+ Keep up to date with industry, competitor, Agile/SAFe methodologies and new trends

+ Create and implement go to market strategy working with all stakeholders

**Minimum Qualifications**

+ 5 years’ experience as a product owner or manager within a user-centric, digital product development team

+ Ability to analyze user experience metrics to determine priorities, opportunities, and issues with product

+ Experience building digital products

+ Exceptional interpersonal, leadership and influencing skills with the ability to build positive relationships, and influence decisions with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders (business, engineering, compliance, etc.,)

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills

+ Highly organized with a can-do attitude

+ Ability to put enterprise thinking first, connect the role’s agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders

+ Demonstrated teamwork and excellent collaboration skills

+ Demonstrated ability to self-start, carve opportunities out of ambiguity and operate with a high degree of independence

+ Experience with Agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban and SAFe

+ Demonstrated ability to adapt and lead through changing and conflicting priorities - Self-starter who is highly comfortable with ambiguity

+ Bachelor's Degree preferred or relevant years of professional experience

**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 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-Arizona-Phoenix

**Schedule** Full-time

**Req ID:** 25012566