Director, Strategic Consulting (Tech Strategy and Business Development)

You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

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.

The Chief Technology Officer Organization’s vision is to raise the bar for technical excellence, talent, strategy, and standards across Technology. It also seeks to cultivate and foster technical innovation, as well as elevate and amplify the technical heartbeat of the organization.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives.  Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems.  American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source.  And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development.  Find your place in technology of 

Our Team: Tech Strategy

Are you passionate about creating the world’s best customer experience and winning in the digital economy? Do you want to accelerate our digital transformation by connecting the dots between business strategy, customer journeys, disruptive technologies, capabilities, and platforms?

The Tech Strategy team is an internal consulting team within the Technology organization. We focus on three types of projects:

1. Strategy/Management Consulting – Our team plays a critical role to provide strategic support for the CIO and Technology Leadership Team. As a team with a strong consulting mindset, leadership and executives call on us to help with a variety of special, high-visibility projects such as: developing mid to long term Technology Strategy for Amex, investment planning, creating the groundwork for Technology’s internal modernization efforts, Investor Day content and presentation etc.

2. Platform Strategy – Partnering closely with Business, Product, Architecture, and Engineering teams across the enterprise, our team ensures Amex will meet our customer needs over the next 3-5 years in this continually evolving FinTech landscape by creating cohesive platform strategies and roadmaps.  This includes forming recommendations to invest in strategic and emerging capabilities (including build vs. buy analysis), enhance / mature existing capabilities, and rationalize redundant capabilities across all platforms to drive business model evolution, growth, and innovation.

3. Mergers & Acquisition Advisory - Our team