Senior Manager-Technical Project Manager - Amex Ads, Offers, and Dining Tech
Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.
The U.S. Consumer and Digital Technology (USCDT) Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.
American Express Ads, Offers, and Dining Technology brings together our advertising, offers, and dining platforms to elevate the Membership experience. The team drives the expansion of Amex Offers, the development of innovative digital advertising capabilities, and leads the end-to-end technology integration and platform development of our dining services to create seamless connections between diners, restaurants, and the broader American Express Membership ecosystem.
As part of Team Amex, you’ll experience a culture built on innovation, shared values, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers and colleagues. You’ll have the support, flexibility, and autonomy to make an impact while helping shape the future of how people discover, book, and enjoy dining experiences worldwide.
- Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master for multiple teams to deliver solutions in support of key product and engineering initiatives.
- Provide cross-functional coordination with Engineering and Product Management and inter/intra team communications to deliver outstanding program outcomes.
- Work closely with software engineers, product managers and other engineering teams to get high-quality products and features through the SDLC (build, test, and release on time).
- Manage project schedules, identify possible risks/issues, and clearly communicate them to project stakeholders.
- Data driven / logical in implementing. Excited by going deeper vs broader. Not shying away from contributes technical discussions.
- Maintaining release and dependency plans across Engineering teams and external partners
- Actively identifying, managing, and raising risks, issues, and changes tied to product development initiatives.
- Conducting Planning sessions and Scrum ceremonies, with a focus on continuously learning from the past
- 7+ years of IT experience with 4+ years of agile experience scrum master managing scrum team for medium to large software development projects
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM/SSM/PMI) Certification.
- Agile experience as a Scrum Master managing multiple Scrum Teams for software development projects.
- Experience working cross functionally with Engineering, Product Management, and other functions involved in Project Delivery.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to interact with leadership, technical and non-technical groups.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, consultation and organizational skills.
- JIRA expertise: Sprint Reporting, Road mapping, Dependency management
- AI literacy with the ability to leverage AI tools for productivity, understand basic AI concepts and governance, and identify opportunities for automation and operational efficiency in project delivery.
Depending on factors such as business unit requirements, the nature of the position, cost and applicable laws, American Express may provide visa sponsorship for certain positions
Leadership:
- Finding opportunities to embrace innovative technologies and processes
- Comes from a technical delivery background with a good understanding of software engineering and technologies.
- Organized, diligent, proactive, and passionate about delivery
- Excellent in Agile, Scrum development teams delivering fast paced environment.
- Experience understanding technology solutions at an enterprise-level
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and an ability to effectively communicate and negotiate with third parties, development, and product managers
- Experience in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity, advocating for simplification, influencing teams and being able to build your own path to navigate to solutions
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification
- SaaS Technical Delivery
- Passionate about building technical solutions