American Express - Product Manager - Commercial Data Delivery

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Function Description

American Express is on a journey to provide the world's best customer experience every day. The Commercial Data Office (CoDO) team, within Global Commercial Services (GCS), is focused on powering the best customer experience and business growth through data. With continuous changes in the regulatory environment and innovation through data evolving, CoDO plays a key role in strengthening GCS critical enablers and supporting new opportunities. In partnership with the Enterprise Data Office and across GCS, CoDO is tasked with building new, innovative data solutions for our customers, while adhering to regulations and data management best practices.

The team's scope is comprised of 3 pillars:

Drive Strategic Growth & Revenue -Defining the vision and roadmap to transform data as a key asset to power business growth.

Modernize Data Management -Ongoing data management, data discovery and collaboration across Global Commercial Services

Ensure Health of the Commercial Business - Striving for 100% reliability of current data platforms and capabilities while developing more agility and scalability for the future

Purpose of the Role

This role is part of Data Sharing Capabilities team & would be responsible for developing, delivering, and owning B2B commercial data delivery mechanisms & services. The candidate would be analyzing & mining data, conceptualizing the required capabilities, creating a proof of concept/ prototype, and finally partnering with technology for automation & scaling.

Responsibilities

Developing, owning, and executing product roadmap, working with stakeholders across the organization and our customer base to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization.

Translating product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories and acceptance test criteria.

Prioritizing & maintaining the sprint backlog for your product, balancing the requirements of customers & stakeholders.

Working closely with Engineering team to shape design, build, test products, and ensure high-quality, on-time delivery

Assessing the systems architecture currently in place and recommend solutions to improve it.

Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing modern data delivery solutions

Determine that solution scope is in overall data sharing architecture before developers begin any major work.

Evaluating project constrains to find alternatives, alleviate risks, and suggest re-engineering if required

Coordinating communication, escalating & facilitating resolution of risks, issues, and changes tied to the product

Collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to manage and prioritize product and platform release

Creating ROI analyses and optimization recommendations.

Lead, inspire & mentor a team of analyst(s) to deliver impactful internal & external customer capabilities

Build and nurture a highly engaged and strong performing team that has right blend of subject knowledge, collaboration and focus on driving business results

Minimum Qualifications:

Critical Factors to Success

Business Outcomes:

Deliver high quality & accurate data capabilities results in timely manner and build best in class solutions

Understanding and anticipating the client's needs to manage the development process more effectively

Accountable for the strategic Agile delivery framework and determine roadmaps for products

Leadership Outcomes:

Put enterprise thinking first, connect the role's agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.

Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings

Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity

Lead with an innovative mindset and deliver the world's best customer experiences every day

Past Experience

5+ years of relevant experience as product owner / development / manager

In-depth knowledge of Agile Scum process and principles

Experience in data management, processing & transmission through SFTP, API, live stream, etc.

Academic Background

MBA or Bachelor/Advanced degree in computer science, information technology, information management

Functional Skills/Capabilities

Experience in data product/ capability development & solution designing

Strong command on creating system interaction diagrams and high-level data flows

Good with business and technical architecture design & assessment

Experience in working with technology to drive capability build & automation

Strong change orientation, creative thinking and effective in being part of flexible agile teams

Ability to independently analyze, conceptualize and prototype solutions

Technical Skills/Capabilities

Strong technical skills in understanding and deploying enterprise level application systems

Big data sharing through push and pull data delivery mechanisms

API & Web Services integration

Knowledge of Platforms

Data APIs & Live data streaming

JIRA for User Stories and Agile Scrum Management

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

Set The Agenda: Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective

Bring Others With You: Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential

Do It The Right Way: Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.