About American Express Digital Labs
American Express Digital Labs catalyzes digital innovation across the enterprise by originating, incubating, and scaling products and platforms that matter to our customers’ digital lives. We combine creativity, customer centricity, and technical excellence to reimagine how Card Members experience payments and membership in a digital world.
As a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team, we partner with leading technology companies and strategic partners to bring differentiated digital payment solutions and engaging membership experiences to market.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Associate Product Manager to help build Membership experiences for Amex Card Members within AI/LLM partner channels. This role will support the development of agentic experiences that help Card Members get the most out of their membership across a range of needs, such as better understanding their spending or booking their next trip through American Express. The role combines product development, analytics, and customer experience and requires developing expertise in LLMs and enabling technologies such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent interactions.
- Partner with engineering, solutions architects, and design teams to build intuitive and trustworthy agentic Membership experiences within LLM channels.
- Partner with Senior Product Managers to translate product strategy into user flows, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation to deliver product features and platform capabilities to continually iterate on the Amex MCP servers that power these experiences.
- Partner with internal business and platform teams to catalogue and prepare Amex assets and capabilities for use within LLMs
- Define success metrics and measurement frameworks for agentic experiences; build and maintain dashboards to track customer engagement, task completion, experience quality, and product performance.
- Analyze customer needs and market trends to identify opportunities and inform product features, priorities, and user experiences.
- Coordinate cross-functional and partner workstreams, including with Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy to track milestones, dependencies, decisions, and launch readiness.
- 2+ years' experience in product development/management or software engineering in AI, digital products, financial services, fintech, servicing, or partner-enabled customer experiences.
- Familiarity with GenAI concepts such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) a plus.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience using data to evaluate product performance, identify customer needs, and support recommendations and product decisions. - Enthusiasm for exceptional products and services; strong customer empathy, familiarity with customer research methods, and ability to identify friction and help shape intuitive and trustworthy experiences.
- Familiarity with technologies relevant to building third-party integrations, such as APIs, OAuth, and Software Development Kits.
- Ability to translate customer, business, and technical needs into clear requirements, user stories, process flows, analyses, and product documentation.
- Builds relationships quickly and collaborates effectively across teams and stakeholders.
- Gathers information, assesses tradeoffs and risks, and supports recommendations with evidence.
- Recognizes issues quickly and helps drive resolution through creative and efficient problem solving.
- Curious and entrepreneurial; learns how things work, makes connections across teams and technologies, and moves fluidly between analysis and execution.
- Creative within a highly regulated financial-services environment.
- Team player, comfortable with ambiguity, highly organized, and able to manage multiple priorities and dependencies.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United States is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
About UsAt American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.
As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience our 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.
About the TeamWe 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
- 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
- Free financial coaching and financial well-being 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 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
For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site.
Skills Required
- 2+ years experience in product development/management or software engineering in AI, digital products, financial services, fintech, servicing, or partner-enabled customer experiences
- Familiarity with GenAI concepts (e.g., Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- Experience using data to evaluate product performance and support product decisions (analytics, dashboards, metrics)
- Familiarity with technologies for third-party integrations such as APIs, OAuth, and SDKs
- Ability to translate customer, business, and technical needs into requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Legal, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy for launch readiness
- Authorization to work in the United States (company will not sponsor visas)
American Express Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about American Express and has not been reviewed or approved by American Express.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay is often viewed as attractive when combined with comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage that supports day-to-day needs. The benefits package is also framed as especially helpful for those supporting dependents.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with company matching. Financial wellness services and coaching are also highlighted as strengthening longer-term financial security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is repeatedly characterized as generous and a valued component of the overall package. Time off and flexibility are presented as helping the total rewards feel more complete beyond base salary.
American Express Insights
What We Do
At American Express, we know that with the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. Whether we’re supporting our customers’ financial confidence to move ahead, taking commerce to new heights, or encouraging people to explore the world, our colleagues are constantly striving to uphold our powerful backing promise to our customers and each other every day. These beliefs have been our North Star for 170 years as our business transformed – from helping evacuate travelers during World Wars, to ensuring the safety of our customers’ funds during the Great Depression in the U.S., to creating the Shop Small® movement to help small businesses recover from the Financial Crisis, to providing aid to communities impacted by many natural disasters and so much more. For generations, the key to our success has been the determination and resilience of our American Express colleagues. Now, as a globally integrated payments company, we work together to provide customers with access to products, insights and world-class experiences that enrich lives and build business success. Join us and let’s lead the way together.
