Manager, Enterprise Payments Product Development

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?

The core of our company is not just the products we offer, but the personal connections our customers have with our brand. You can create digital experiences– from payments to rewards to servicing– that keep us connected to our customers and serve them at every touchpoint. From digital servicing and lifestyle features to secure, frictionless payment options, you can make a meaningful difference in our customers’ lives and help set us apart in the industry.

About Network & Acquiring Solutions

As part of the Global Merchant & Network Services group (GMNS), the Network & Acquirer Solutions (NAS) team is at the core of American Express, uniquely positioned to support every business unit and customer across the Enterprise. The American Express Network enables over $1.6 trillion in annual spend, serving our Issuers and Acquirers in more than 170 markets worldwide. We are driving a strategic, multi-year Enterprise Payments program to bring all payments together into a centre of excellence to drive operational excellence for payment execution, enable innovative payment products, services, and capabilities to be built effectively and efficiently, support our BU strategies more closely, and deliver on our customers’ evolving payment needs.

About the Role

The role of Manager, Enterprise Payments Product Development is an exciting opportunity for a talented product manager to drive modernization and development of new payment capabilities. The incumbent will be a central member of the Enterprise Payments COE that is tasked with driving an enterprise critical multi-year Multi-Rail Payments program established to (1) accelerate the development of our enterprise payment services and (2) redesign the operating model surrounding it to drive excellence in payment execution. Reporting to the Director, Enterprise Payments Product Development, this role will help to reshape and transform how payment products are built and delivered at American Express. The Manager, Enterprise Payments Product Development will collaborate with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to bring the product vision to life.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Management teams to translate product strategies and roadmaps into technical capabilities and actionable delivery plans.
• Develop capability release plans with key stakeholders, e.g., Product Management, Engineering, Operations, business owners, market teams, etc.
• Participate in the discovery and envisioning of new payment flows and bank integration capabilities that power key customer journeys across American Express.
• Drive the definition and refinement of capabilities, features, user stories and associated success criteria.
• Define market specific platform requirements for inclusions in global platforms and market expansion release plans.
• Develop the delivery strategy for modernization, establishing a playbook for enablement expansion and scaling of modern payment capabilities across the globe.
• Prioritize and sequence the delivery of payment capabilities within scrums and participate in cross team/train delivery planning
• Monitor and assess delivery and performance metrics to identify opportunities to improve delivery predictability, time to market, delivery of iterative value to