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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 Team Amex and let's lead the way together.

The American Express Global Privacy Oversight are trusted advisors on the American Express Data Protection & Privacy Principles. We work to raise privacy awareness, drive compliance with both internal privacy policies and regulatory expectations across the organization and establish privacy as a strategic differentiator for the American Express brand.

As a second line of defense function, Global Privacy oversee, provide expertise in, and challenge the identification, management, and mitigation of privacy risks across the company in line with the privacy framework and the company’s vision to provide the world’s best customer experience every day.

The Vice President, U.S. & Institutional Privacy will provide oversight and credible challenge of the privacy risk-taking activities while leading a global team of privacy professionals responsible for independent privacy risk management for American Express’ U.S. Banks, Global Merchant & Network Services and Global Commercial Services.

The Vice President will oversee the business in support of privacy risk management objectives including regulatory compliance (e.g. CCPA, CPRA and GDPR), and monitor aggregate privacy risk across the company to ensure privacy risk profile remains within appetite and tolerance levels. Lead specialist functions overseeing Artificial Intelligence and Data Management.

 Key Responsibilities:

  • Privacy subject matter expert, current on industry activities and emerging trends, and familiarity with key regulations including GDPR and CCPA.
  • Experience providing credible challenge and ongoing second line oversight to pro-actively identify and address risks.
  • Exceptional knowledge of key privacy concepts including lawful usage, purpose limitation, minimization, retention and deletion requirements etc.
  • Experience working in a highly controlled environment and governing supporting policies and procedures
  • Experience leading the uplift and deployment of governance capabilities and frameworks supporting the privacy risk domain.
  • Detailed knowledge of operational processes required to support critical privacy requirements, e.g. data subject rights.
  • Champion for a consistently strong control environment, and ability to influence the continued enhancement of effective controls.
  • Familiarity with related risk types including AI, Data Risk and Information Security.

 Minimum Qualifications:

  • 10+ years’ experience in a Risk Management/Compliance/Audit role or a highly regulated domain.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead a team of risk professionals to accomplish privacy risk management goals, best practices and risk mitigation strategies.
  • Ability to build rapport with First Line Business Units, risk oversight functions, compliance, operational excellence, information security, GCO and many others to drive privacy best practices throughout the enterprise.
  • Excellent relationship building skills to partner effectively across diverse, cross-functional teams in complex and rapidly-changing environments. 
  • Experienced leader, able to engage and influence while motivating diverse teams through complexities and change to deliver results.
  • Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills, with strong learning agility and willingness to embrace and lead through change.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, able to create compelling arguments and influence across all levels of the organization.
  • Demonstrated leadership skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively.
  • Location: Hybrid (NYC, Phoenix, Sunrise or Atlanta)  

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions

Salary Range: $200,000.00 to $275,000.00 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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