Senior Manager - Agentic Commerce Partner Integrations

Amex Digital Labs’ mission is to build the future of payments and membership, creating new value that evolves with our customers' needs and drives deeper engagement and loyalty. We leverage emerging technologies to deliver innovations that enhance how customers pay, travel, dine, and experience the brand.

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead partner integrations for Agentic Commerce at American Express. Working closely with AI platforms, payment service providers, wallet providers, merchants, technology partners, and internal stakeholders, you will translate platform capabilities into scalable partner implementations that drive adoption while maintaining the highest standards of customer trust, security, and operational excellence.

This position will focus on the strategy and execution required to enable seamless, secure agent-driven transactions, including defining the experiences, platform capabilities, and trust frameworks needed to scale across partners and future use cases. This person will build a strong command of emerging agentic commerce protocols, existing card payments infrastructure, and new interaction models. Partnering closely with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams, this person will lead new integrations across multiple partners, shape the end-to-end customer experience, and drive innovation at the intersection of AI, payments, and digital trust.

This position requires a unique combination of product strategy, payments expertise, and partnership management.

As a trusted, closed-loop network, American Express is uniquely positioned to extend its authentication, authorization, identity, and risk capabilities into AI-powered commerce experiences while preserving Card Member visibility and control over agent-initiated activity. By leveraging our membership model, premium brand, and differentiated data assets, this person will help define the experiences and capabilities that create value for Card Members, merchants, partners, and the broader ecosystem.

Minimum Qualifications

- 5+ years of experience in product management, leading product development initiatives, or similar role
- Experience launching products across multi‑sided platforms and ecosystem businesses
- Experience launching products, partnerships, or capabilities within rapidly evolving markets
- Experience utilizing customer research, analytics, and data to drive product strategy and roadmap decisions
- Strong customer empathy and a passion for building exceptional products and services; skilled at clearly articulating user needs and product functionality
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills across cross-functional teams; able to engage, influence, and inspire stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
- Ability to reconcile competing needs across customers, stakeholders, and partners, making effective decisions and gaining buy in
- Proven experience leading strategic integrations, platform partnerships, ecosystem products, or large‑scale technology initiatives
- Highly organized self-starter with strong ownership mentality and business track record
- Strong understanding of APIs, platform architectures, developer ecosystems, and integration models
- Experienced in collaborating closely with engineering; able to bridge business goals with technical implementation and speak fluently across disciplines
- Intellectually curious with a systems-thinking mindset; able to connect dots across functions and uncover innovation opportunities within complex environments
- Detail-oriented and analytical; adept at framing key questions, interpreting data, and making informed product decisions
- Skilled at balancing big picture strategy and tactical details
- Team player, comfortable with ambiguity, open to feedback, willing to collaborate and grow
- Flexible and comfortable with iteration; embraces a test-and-learn approach and continuously adapts based on user insights, data, and team input
- Willingness to be creative within the bounds of the highly regulated financial services environment

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience managing strategic partnerships with large‑scale technology companies
- Familiarity with fraud prevention, risk management, authorization systems, and transaction decisioning platforms
- Strong knowledge of card payments infrastructure, issuer processing, card lifecycle management, and network tokenization frameworks
- Familiarity with regulatory, compliance, policy, or governance requirements within emerging technology domains
- Experience contributing to industry standards, interoperability frameworks, or ecosystem governance initiatives

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for this position.