Senior Manager Product Management

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to continue the evolution of our Data Platform, treating our data as a core product. Whether for in-depth insights or AI-driven travel management solutions, our clients will use the products you develop to better manage their travel program.

As a data product manager, you will balance your product approach with your technical depth and passion for realizing the value of data. You will work with diverse global teams, spanning data producer and data consumer functions, to determine and execute against milestones of your roadmap. During development you will manage the backlog with key stakeholders, triage issues and risks, track resourcing needs, and regularly communicate status to leadership.

• Platform Strategy: Define and execute the roadmap for a centralized data platform, ensuring it meets the needs of engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders.
• Data-as-a-Product: Implement product management best practices for data, ensuring all datasets are discoverable, high-quality, and easy to consume via APIs and self-service tools.
• AI Readiness: Build the specific infrastructure—such as feature stores and automated pipelines—required to accelerate the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions.
• Operational Excellence: Establish and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for data reliability, latency, and uptime, ensuring the platform scales alongside the business.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with stakeholders to identify high-impact data needs and translate them into technical requirements for the data engineering team.
• Governance & Security: Drive the strategy for data privacy and compliance, integrating security protocols directly into the platform workflow to ensure "compliance by design."

• Platform
  
  Experience:
  
  5+ years of Product Management experience, specifically managing technical products, data platforms, or large-scale backend systems.
• Technical Literacy: A strong understanding of the modern data stack (e.g., Cloud Warehousing, ETL/ELT, and Streaming) and how data flows from source to end-user.
• AI/ML Familiarity: You understand the data requirements for machine learning and how to build a platform that supports model training and inference at scale.
• Product Thinking: The ability to apply "Product Sense" to internal tools—identifying friction points for developers and building solutions that improve their velocity.
• Data-Informed Decision Making: You are comfortable using data to justify roadmap priorities and can articulate the ROI of technical debt reduction.
• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  You can effectively bridge the gap between deep technical engineering discussions and high-level business strategy.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The US national base salary range for this position is from

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The national range provided includes the base salary that GBT expects to pay for the role. Actual base salary will be based on factors including the scope and complexity of the role and the successful candidate’s relevant experience, skills, knowledge, and work location.

For information about our comprehensive US benefits programs and eligibility, please review our Benefits-at-a-Glance document.

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Work and life:
Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.
• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
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