American Express—Senior Associate-Digital Product Ops

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Description: The Enterprise Technology Services organization partners with every part of the American Express business to power the company’s growth and innovation with trust and efficiency, and drive competitive differentiation with speed. We support the delivery and enablement of technology, digital, and data capabilities, platforms, and services globally. Specifically, our team is responsible for the company’s technology engineering, architecture, and infrastructure, providing 24x7 support to ensure an uninterrupted, high-quality experience for customers and colleagues. We also provide product management for core enterprise platforms, and lead technology risk and information security, enterprise data governance and platforms, digital product and design, and enterprise AI platforms on behalf of the company. Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline. - 3-6 years of experience in Product Operations, Product Ownership, Product Management or related functions. - Experience supporting digital product delivery in Agile environments. - Demonstrated experience working with operational risk, governance, compliance, audit, or control management processes. - Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, release management, and change management practices. - Experience creating executive dashboards, operational reports, and governance documentation. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience developing user-facing documentation and executive communications. - Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities. Preferred Qualifications - Experience in GCP tools and technologies, Agentic AI enablement and automation. - Familiarity with American Express risk and governance frameworks or similar enterprise control environments. - Experience working with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, and knowledge management platforms. - Experience supporting release communications, knowledge management, and user enablement programs. - Working knowledge of SQL, Big Query, or similar reporting and analytics tools. - Understanding of Agile, Scrum, and product operating models. Leadership Competencies The successful candidate will demonstrate: - A strong ownership mindset with exceptional attention to detail. - Ability to influence cross-functional partners in a highly matrixed organization. - Strong risk awareness and commitment to operational excellence. - Excellent problem-solving and analytical capabilities. - Customer-first thinking with a focus on delivering high-quality product experiences. - Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for simplifying processes and reducing operational risk. Why Join American Express? As a Senior Associate in Product Operations, you will play a critical role in ensuring our products are delivered with the operational excellence, governance, and customer focus that define the American Express brand. You'll have the opportunity to influence enterprise-scale product operations, strengthen risk and compliance practices, and help teams deliver innovative solutions with confidence and control. Responsibilities: Product Operations & Delivery - Support the end-to-end product operating model by driving operational processes that improve product planning, release management, and execution. - Coordinate product delivery activities across Product Managers, Engineering, Technology, and Operations teams to ensure timely and high-quality releases. - Aggregate, validate, and publish release notes to downstream systems and Application Support teams for every product release. - Partner with Product Owners to ensure impact assessments for Cornerstone tables and downstream applications are completed, reviewed, and communicated prior to each release. - Drive operational excellence by identifying process improvements and standardizing product management practices across the organization. User Enablement & E2E Product Steering Manage and oversee user enablement content to ensure customers and internal users have access to accurate, timely, and high-quality product documentation. - Edit and maintain customer-facing and internal enablement content for data and usecases across Lumi Platform - Coordinate review and approval workflows with Product Managers and Product Owners to ensure all enablement materials remain current and aligned with product releases. - Own and continuously improve the time to market to bring new data and usecases to Lumi, partnering with Product and Engineering teams to automate the process flows and bring foreseeable enhancements into their backlog proactively . - Ensure product communications are consistent, accurate, and delivered according to established governance processes. Cross-functional Partnership - Build strong partnerships with Product Managers, Engineering, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Control Management, Customer Servicing, and Application Support teams. - Support governance forums by preparing operational metrics, risk updates, audit status, and release readiness reports. - Drive accountability across stakeholders by tracking operational deliverables, risks, dependencies, and action items through completion.