**Description**

**You Lead the Way. We’ve Got Your Back.**

With the right backing, people and businesses have the power to progress in incredible ways. When you join Team Amex, you become part of a global and diverse community of colleagues with an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities and each other. Here, you’ll learn and grow as we help you create a career journey that’s unique and meaningful to you with benefits, programs, and flexibility that support you personally and professionally.

At American Express, you’ll be recognized for your contributions, leadership, and impact—every colleague has the opportunity to share in the company’s success. Together, we’ll win as a team, striving to uphold our company values and powerful backing promise to provide the world’s best customer experience every day. And we’ll do it with the utmost integrity, and in an environment where everyone is seen, heard and feels like they belong.

Join #TeamAmex and let’s lead the way together.

As part of our diverse tech team, you can architect, code and ship software that makes us an essential part of our customers’ digital lives. Here, you can work alongside talented engineers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions on what tech to use to solve challenging problems. American Express offers a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies and encourages you to back the broader engineering community through open source. And because we understand the importance of keeping your skills fresh and relevant, we give you dedicated time to invest in your professional development. Find your place in technology of #TeamAmex.

**How will you make an impact in this role?**

The Portfolio Manager role will be supporting the US Consumer & Digital Technology Portfolio reporting to the Director – Portfolio Management, and work with senior Technology and business leaders to manage the USCDT Technology Investment portfolio and Operating Expense plan with a strategic focus on investment optimization. The successful candidate will have deep investment analytics and financial management experience, relentless attention to detail, executive presentation experience, and the ability to build and leverage positive relationships with the team and partners.

Our ideal candidate is highly organized with effective communication/storytelling skills and a bias towards action. You show up with passion, are not afraid to challenge the status quo or thrive in a fast-paced environment.

**Key Responsibilities Include:**

+ Partner with the Portfolio Director to help define, plan, and build the technology investment portfolio for US Consumer & Digital Technology Portfolio.

+ Manage day-to-day Portfolio activities such as resourcing, financial modelling and data trending, risk identification.

+ Take ownership in managing and ensuring successful financial, delivery and operational outcomes across the portfolio - gathering status updates and escalating delivery risks when needed.

+ Drive delivery by creating and maintaining a comprehensive view of the organization’s tech investments.

+ Build strong partnerships with technology, product, finance, and business stakeholders to maintain and deliver against technology roadmaps.

+ Develop recommendations by connecting the dots between seemingly disparate conversations, workstreams, and data, and synthesizing feedback.

+ Enable Executive leadership decision making through development and presentation of metrics and insights covering areas of operations, delivery, finance and business.

+ Collaborate effectively and build key relationships with stakeholder teams to identify and manage milestones and overall plan.

+ Promote awareness and transparency by keeping stakeholders informed of key decisions and relevant timelines.

+ Support development of change management initiatives, implementation strategy, and enabling tools/processes.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor's Degree

+ Data Analytics and Financial modeling

+ 5 years of Portfolio or Program Management experience, in a large technology organization.

+ Experience with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Ability to execute and maintain high performance under tight timelines.

+ Superb written and verbal communication; advanced or expert PowerPoint and visual presentation skills.

+ Working knowledge of software development processes and Agile methodologies; experience with modern approaches preferred.

+ Literacy in financial modeling/analysis; should be able to connect strategy to financial results.

+ Excellent at building relationships and inspiring others.

+ Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.

+ Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.

+ Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics.

+ Problem solving and root cause identification skills.

+ Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.

+ Familiarity with project management approaches, tools, and phases of the project lifecycle.

**Qualifications**

Salary Range: $110,000.00 to $190,000.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back our colleagues and their loved ones with benefits and programs that support their holistic well-being. That means we prioritize their physical, financial, and mental health through each stage of life. Benefits include:

+ 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 .

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.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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**Job:** Technology

**Primary Location:** US-New York-New York

**Other Locations:** US-Arizona-Phoenix, US-Florida-Sunrise

**Schedule** Full-time

**Req ID:** 24013779