Director of Research and Development Emerging Products Chief Technology Officer Organization
Director of Research and Development Emerging Products Chief Technology Officer Organization
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$ 150000 - 225000
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You Lead the Way. Weve 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 youll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey thats unique and meaningful to you with benefits programs and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.
At American Express youll be recognized for your contributions leadership and impactevery colleague has the opportunity to share in the companys success. Together well win as a team striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the worlds best customer experience every day. And well do it with the utmost integrity and in an environment where everyone is seen heard and feels like they belong.
Join Team Amex and lets lead the way together.
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 on #TeamAmex.
The Chief Technology Officer Organizations 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.
This position reports directly to the VP of R&D and will act as a strategic partner and advisor in terms of technology innovation intellectual property knowhow organizational technical core competency R&D strategy product commercialization program as well as being a key member of the CTO leadership team. This role works closely with strategic product technology and venture partners to define the needs being addressed in each R&D program and deliver the concepts capabilities designs and plans to meet these needs. This role will also ensure that R&D projects are delivered on time in budget and that the products meet specifications.
On any given day you might:
- Research emerging technologies such as Quantum Computing PostQuantum Cryptography Metaverse & Web3 AR/VR and AI/ML with a focus on establishing strategies developing impactful experiments launching new products and other earlystage product development activities.
- Partner with Engineering Research to identify emergingtech opportunities to embrace new technologies that will solve future problems.
- As technologies and concepts mature mobilize applicable company teams to experiment with and adopt emerging tech.
- Serve as a subject matter expert and business partner who can educate both technical and nontechnical users across the company.
- Create and test hypothesis with early stage tech that may lead to solutions to meaningful technical and business challenges.
- Partner across the organization to lead R&D efforts and processes in acquiring an indepth understanding of the customer needs and applying both strategic and tactical methods to stay on top of the evolving trends in the competitive landscape.
- Act as both a strategic problem solver and architect for the future technology and capability needs of CTO R&D to implement business strategy
- Drive continuous organizational and leadership development to enable R&D growth.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Science Technology or Engineering related subjects.
- At least 7 years of Product Research Product Development and/or leadership experience in technology roles.
- A deep understanding of the FinTech industry generally.
- Proven track record building launching and driving products through the life cycle.
- Ability to bring innovative thinking couples with practical to solve multidimensional issues.
- Demonstrated leadership and management experience in working with crossfunctional geographically dispersed teams on complex projects.
- Understands team dynamics and experienced at building teams that deliver results. Requires excellent written interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
- Highly focused on delivering products that meet the needs of patients and customers.
- Experience in building and leading teams including talent acquisition and development
- Ability to influence leadership to adopt new ideas products and/or approachesBrings support and positive attributes to a culture that is respectful supportive goal oriented scientific and diverse.
- Must have ability to read and understand complex contracts of the business work with the legal and transaction teams and operate the R&D program in awareness of the foregoing.
Also Critical to your Success
- A passion for creating a fun empathetic work environment where hardworking diverse teams can thrive.
Bonus Points
- Experience building developing integrating with and/or launching new digital products in a highly regulated industry
Salary Range: $150000.00 to $225000.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) benefits
The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay well consider your location experience and other jobrelated factors.
We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic wellbeing. That means we prioritize their physical financial and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Bonus incentives
- 6 Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial wellbeing 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 onsite 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. Thats 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 inperson culture. Depending on role and business needs colleagues will either work onsite in a hybrid model (combination of inoffice and virtual days) or fully virtually.
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Required Experience:
Chief
Employment Type
Full-Time
