Manager - Business Development, Events & Marketing - Amex Ventures

American Express Ventures ("Amex Ventures"), the corporate venture capital arm of American Express, makes investments in game-changing startups that help accelerate innovation and deliver strategic value to American Express.  With a global mandate, Amex Ventures invests primarily in Seed through Series B companies across fintech, commerce, consumer services, and enterprise software.

In addition to investing, Amex Ventures works closely with portfolio companies, startups, and American Express business units to identify commercial opportunities, support strategic partnerships, and strengthen connectivity across the startup ecosystem. The team has backed more than 100 category-defining founders over its 10+ year history, with notable investments including Biocatch, Blackbird Labs, Decagon, Galileo, Melio, Menlo Security, Nekuda, Plaid, Replit, Stripe, Toast, and Wonder, among others.

The Business Development ("BD") team within Amex Ventures is responsible for deepening connectivity between startups, venture capital firms, and American Express business units.  BD manages startup partnership and pilot tracking, supports connectivity between startups and internal stakeholders, builds relationships across the external venture ecosystem, and amplifies the Amex Ventures brand through events, marketing, and platform development.

About the Role

Amex Ventures' Business Development team is seeking a Manager, Events & Marketing to lead the execution of high-impact events that strengthen Amex Ventures' presence across the startup and venture capital ecosystem.  This role reports to the Head of Business Development and Strategy and will work closely with Amex Ventures investors, the Business Development team, internal communications partners, Ventures' external brand agency, and cross-functional American Express stakeholders.  

This is an external-facing role focused on event operations and execution. The Manager will oversee approximately 15–25 Amex Ventures-owned events per year across various formats, including investor and founder events, demo days and conference activations. Marketing will be a secondary but important part of the role, primarily focused on event-related content, communications, and brand consistency.

Event Planning and Execution:

• Lead end-to-end execution of Amex Ventures ecosystem events, including thematic dinners, VC/startup networking events, demo days, and conference activations.
• Manage the annual events calendar, timelines, run-of-show, budget, logistics, and post-event follow-up.
• Partner with the Head of Business Development and Strategy and Amex Ventures investors to translate event strategy, audience priorities, and programming goals into high-quality execution.
• Coordinate speaker preparation, attendee experience, venue selection, vendor management, branding, approvals, and partner deliverables.
• Manage event-related workflows, including creative briefs, production timelines, contracts, invoices, and execution support.
• Develop post-event reporting that translates event outcomes into actionable insights on relationship development, referral pipeline conversion, attendee engagement, follow-up opportunities, and qualitative feedback.
• Travel 1-2 times per quarter, as needed, to support events on-site.
   

Ecosystem Engagement:

• Help strengthen Amex Ventures’ relationships with venture capital firms, founders, portfolio companies, and broader innovation ecosystem partners.
• Source and support opportunities to connect with other top-tier VC firms and ecosystem partners.
• Support external engagement efforts that increase quality startup connectivity and create opportunities for relationship-building between startups and American Express business units.
• Maintain a polished, relationship-oriented approach with investors, founders, strategic partners, and internal stakeholders.

Marketing and Communications Support:

• Work with internal communications partners and Amex Ventures’ brand agency partner to support event-related marketing and content.
• Help manage external content including LinkedIn posts, website updates, newsletters, event invitations, recap content, and founder or startup spotlights.
• Support the development of event messaging, audience materials, briefing documents, and post-event content.
• Help maintain consiste