How we serve our customers is constantly evolving and is a challenge we gladly accept. Whether you re finding new ways to prevent identity fraud or enabling customers to start a new business, you can work with one of the most valuable data sets in the world to identify insights and actions that can have a meaningful impact on our customers and our business. And, with opportunities to learn from leaders who have defined the course of our industry, you can grow your career and define your own path. Find your place in risk and analytics on #TeamAmex.
GRC
The Platforms and Capabilities team within Global Risk and Compliance (GRC) is responsible for building and implementing leading-edge platforms and solutions for risk management. Our vision is to provide best-in-class Platforms and Capabilities that enable the risk management framework in GRC and across the Company, and empower colleagues to excel at risk management activities.
How will you make an impact in this role
We are seeking a Product Owner to be a part of this important evolution of the next-generation Risk Management and analytics products. Specifically, this person will work on the Smart Monitoring platform which aims to automate risk monitoring (across all risk types) and testing for Amex across processes, products, business units and risk types leveraging recent advances in data science and technology . The Product Owner will provide day to day strategic support and function as the primary point of contact owning the vision and roadmap of technology products and platforms for the GRC organization. Particular focus would be on new product development, risk management initiatives, process control and improvement and end user experience. This is a highly visible and strategic position within the company.
As Product Owner, you will apply your expertise and data to understand business needs to help develop and build KPIs, KRIs and KCIs to monitor risk across functions and processes in Amex. You will define the user experience, direct one or more scrum teams and other delivery stakeholders to develop solutions. You will prioritize your backlog, gather and define user requirements, and interface with business partners in order to help Amex achieve aggressive business goals while providing innovative, best-in-class solution enhancements for our business stakeholders. You have an understanding of agile development processes and lean startup methods. You are someone with a good mix of product and tech skill, a deep appreciation for user-centered design and development, and a fascination for technology innovation. You have an aptitude for risk management techniques and affinity for data and analytics. You are not afraid of pushing boundaries to achieve the best outcomes for Amex.
Responsibilities include:
Develop and drive product roadmap and define timelines for future features and capabilities
Understand and apply new trends and competitive best practices into product roadmap and requirements
Build, prioritize, and sequence the feature backlog according to defined metrics including business value, return on investment, and job size
Actively collaborate with risk managers, product managers, platform and partner scrum teams and technical engineers in delivery execution
Identify use cases, define business processes, and craft end-to-end user flows.
Breakdown complex business requirements into actionable product features and technology user stories
Develop and implement Test and Learn plan to support ongoing iteration of customer experience and product feature set
Conduct competitive assessments and develop product recommendations based on analysis
Liaise with functions across geographies and Business Units to translate business strategies and goals into product development plans
Support development of appropriate tracking and reporting to determine product performance
Minimum Qualifications
Writing outstanding Product Requirements Documents, User Journeys, Wireframing, and Product analysis
Excellent communication skills to set crystal clear stakeholder expectations on project outcomes & call out cross-functional dependencies, with the ability to work well with geographically dispersed and culturally diverse teams
A strong bias for logical decision-making with facts & actions. Willingness to dot the i s and cross the t s to make the product successful
Ability to formulate a clear point-of-view on hard and ambiguous problems, drive stakeholder alignment in conversations and execute on the same
Ability to prioritize, multi-task varied aspects and get the ball rolling to meet set expectations
Good to have Rally/JIRA/Confluence experience/Agile/Scrum methodology experience