Director-Digital Product Management Amex Digital Labs
Job Summary
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
Support for financial-well-being and retirement
Comprehensive medical dental vision life insurance and disability benefits (depending on location)
Flexible working model with hybrid onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
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
Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check subject to applicable laws and regulations.
At American Express our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation sharedvaluesand Leadership Behaviors and an unwavering commitment to back our customers communities and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service weoperatewith a strong risk mindset ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust security and service.
As part of Team Amexyoullexperience 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.
Amex Digital Labs is responsible for catalyzing digital innovation at American Express by originating incubating and managing emerging products and platforms that can be essential to our customers digital lives. We strive to emphasize creativity customer centricity and innovation. Focus areas include crafting industry-leading digital payment solutions using our outstanding servicing network and lifestyle assets to build digital experiences and defining new products and services based on emerging technologies and trends.
Amex Digital Labs is hiring a Product Director to lead the advancement of our membership recommendation platform. This role will define and scale how American Express delivers personalized recommendations across channels including Resy Travel & Lifestyle Services (TLS) and the Amex App-- ultimately shaping how Card Members engage with their membership.
The platform powers a broad and growing set of use cases across multiple products including emerging generative and agentic experiences. This role will advance the platforms intelligence versatility and scalability to deliver near-term high-impact use cases while shaping the long-term evolution of recommendations at Amex. You will work across teams to shape product needs evolve the platform to meet them and scale recommendations as a foundational capability embedded across Amex experiences.
How will you make an impact in this role
Product Strategy: Define a compelling strategy for our membership recommendation platform and the role it plays in powering discovery and engagement across Amex digital experiences. Ground the strategy in customer needs business priorities and advancements in AI/ML.
Product Roadmap: Set and drive a roadmap that advances the recommendation platform and its applications across products balancing investments across foundational platform capabilities while delivering on near-term priorities and building toward long-term scale.
Personalization Leadership: Lead the adoption and expansion of the recommendation platform across Amex establishing it as a core driver of personalized discovery-led experiences.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment: Partner closely with engineering data science and front-end product teams to bring recommendation capabilities to life across products. Help incubate and ideate new product constructs shape their design and architecture and drive strong execution from concept through launch.
Team Leadership & Talent Development: Build and lead a high-performing team. Set clear goals create focus and ensure the team is set up for success. Provide coaching and support to help individuals grow and deliver their best work.
Minimum Qualifications
Experienced product leader with a track record of building and scaling customer-facing products and platforms; experience with personalization recommendations or ML-powered products is preferred.
Ability to think strategically and creatively to develop winning product strategies that align with broader company goals and deliver measurable customer and business outcomes.
Strong leadership skills and commitment to colleague development with experience managing and developing product teams; able to coach mentor and guide direct reports.
Exceptional stakeholder and partner management skills with a history of fostering productive accountable and trusted relationships across business units technology teams and risk teams.
Technically fluent with a deep appreciation for engineering and data science disciplines and the ability to engage in solutioning trade-off discussions and roadmap prioritization with technical teams.
Highly analytical and data-driven experienced in defining metrics analyzing KPIs and using data and experimentation to identify opportunities diagnose problems and inform product decisions particularly in the context of personalization and customer engagement.
Outstanding communication and influencing skills capable of clearly conveying product strategy and complex concepts to senior leaders and colleagues at all levels.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
Required Experience:
Director
About Company
American Express offers world-class Charge and Credit Cards, Gift Cards, Rewards, Travel, Personal Savings, Business Services, Insurance and more.