Director – Digital Product Management; Process, Tooling, & Enablement

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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.

Enterprise Data Governance & Platforms (EDGP) is part of the larger Enterprise Digital and Data Solutions (EDDS) organization. EDGP improves the customer experience and drives business growth through robust enterprise-wide data policies and governance and enabling a data-driven culture, while developing digital and data platforms that provide insightful customer relationships and allow users to leverage enterprise-wide data capabilities.

American Express is on a multi-year journey to enhance our focus on Privacy compliance as well as Customer data handling and transparency. As part of this journey, EDGP is establishing the Global Privacy Center of Excellence. The Director, Privacy Risk Assessment Process Guidance will sit within the newly formed Privacy Center of Excellence.

Primary Responsibilities
• Work with partners in the global Privacy Center of Excellence to enable assessment of enterprise-wide privacy risk in alignment with organizational best practices
• Identify best practices for assessing and monitoring privacy risk to drive enterprise continuity across different regions and business units
• Enhance user guidance for privacy risk, including control guidance, and training for business stakeholders
• Collaborate with Enterprise Data Management and Third-Party Lifecycle management teams to integrate privacy risk activities across existing processes and tools
• Serve as the subject matter expert for identifying, documenting, and assessing privacy risk
• Establish and socialize guidance document changes, as well as mapping changes to internal and external regulatory key milestones

Qualifications:
• A strong strategic approach with 8+ years prior experience including process improvement in privacy risk
• Strong knowledge of and experience in enhancing and uplifting privacy-related processes across an Enterprise or local level for a financial services company
• Proven track record of driving results in a fast-paced environment often with significant ambiguity and needing to make decisions with less than perfect information.
• Track record of being able to be a subject matter expert and using enterprise-thinking to quickly identify areas of improvement
• High degree of organization, individual initiative and personal accountability and resiliency.
• Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to lead, engage, influence, and encourage partners and stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment.
• Proven ability to manage multiple demands successfully within a matrixed organization.
• Track record of creating and leading strong cross-functional teams
• Enjoys solving large and complicated problems.
• Ability to maintain a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude

Salary Range: $150,000.00 to $225,000.00 annually + bonus + equity (if applicable) + 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. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

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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