About this role
American Express' Risk Management capabilities are central to delivering a strong customer experience while managing credit and fraud risk. The Risk Products & Data Strategy (RPDS) organization is modernizing risk platforms and enabling new business capabilities across a more digital and connected payments ecosystem.
The Manager, Digital Product Development will combine Product Manager and Product Owner responsibilities to help develop and deliver authentication and fraud-risk capabilities supporting AI-assisted and AI-initiated commerce, including customer and agent trust signals. The role will translate business, customer, fraud, identity and technology needs into product requirements, roadmaps, features and controls; partner with Risk, Technology, Architecture, Data Science, Information Security and servicing teams; and support pilots and scaled launches while balancing security, customer friction, platform performance and speed to market.
Minimum Qualifications
- Demonstrated 5 years of product management, product ownership or product development experience delivering complex technology capabilities; experience with fraud management or real-time risk products is preferred.
- Ability to build strong relationships across large cross-functional teams and influence business and technology partners to drive transformational change.
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate in ambiguity and translate emerging needs into clear product requirements and decisions.
- Experience with Agile/Scaled Agile practices, backlog management, feature/story development and prioritization across competing initiatives; JIRA/Confluence experience is useful.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to engage internal and external stakeholders at multiple levels.
- High degree of organization, initiative and accountability, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and dependencies.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, technology, engineering, business management or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep and broad expertise in consumer or commercial risk management, digital payments, authentication, identity, fraud-risk technology or related processes and systems.
- Experience with fraud authorization, authentication, decision science models, risk decisioning platforms, Amex risk capabilities/data, or another core fraud-risk management function.
- Product exposure to Agentic AI, AI agents, agentic payments/commerce, digital identity, tokenization, developer platforms or machine-to-machine commerce.
- Master's degree or comparable experience in management, computer science, engineering, analytics or a related discipline is a plus.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.