Vice President, Forward Deployed Engineering
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Qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering or technology leadership experience, with a proven track record building and scaling high-performing teams.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, enterprise-scale technology deployments and driving measurable business transformation.
- Strong technical foundation in modern software engineering, cloud platforms, distributed systems, and emerging AI technologies.
- Experience partnering with product and platform engineering organizations to bring innovative technologies into production.
- Exceptional executive presence, strategic judgment, and ability to influence across large, complex organizations.
- An entrepreneurial mindset, bias for action, and passion for building organizations that deliver exceptional results.
- Preferred Experience
- Leadership experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, applied AI, customer engineering, or enterprise technology deployment.
- Familiarity with Generative AI, agentic systems, enterprise AI platforms, and modern AI development frameworks.
- Experience operating in financial services or other highly regulated environments.
- What Success Looks Like
- You will build a world-class FDE organization that accelerates enterprise AI adoption, consistently delivers measurable business value, and becomes a strategic bridge between American Express business leaders and its AI platform teams.
- Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions
Responsibilities
- Define the FDE Vision: Establish the strategy, operating model, and execution framework for scaling Forward Deployed Engineering across American Express.
- Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption: Partner with business leaders to identify high-value opportunities, drive production deployments, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Build an Exceptional Engineering Organization: Attract, develop, and inspire high-performing engineers who thrive on solving complex problems and delivering impact.
- Partner with Platform Engineering: Work closely with Product, Platform Engineering, and Architecture teams to translate enterprise needs into scalable solutions and influence platform evolution.
- Scale What Works: Turn successful implementations into reusable patterns, accelerators, and deployment approaches that increase speed, quality, and enterprise-wide adoption.
- Drive Executive Alignment: Serve as a trusted strategic partner to senior leaders, shaping AI priorities, removing barriers, and accelerating enterprise transformation.
- Own Delivery Excellence: Establish a culture of technical rigor, accountability, rapid execution, and measurable customer success.
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred Experience
About American Express
Global financial services company offering payment and travel products.
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