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As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.
As a part of the Enterprise Digital Center of Excellence (CoE), you will be responsible for developing world class digital products, capabilities and marketing programs that support our global markets and help drive business growth.
The Director, Enterprise Agentic Search Content will define and operationalize American Express’s enterprise content strategy for AI-driven and agentic discovery experiences. This leader will act as the enterprise hub for “agentic-ready content systems”- creating the standards, insights, governance, and enablement that allow line-of-business teams to execute content and merchandising strategies with local ownership while delivering a coherent, trusted enterprise presence across LLM-driven ecosystems.
This role partners closely with UX design, research, marketing, product, analytics, communications, technology, and risk/ governance stakeholders to ensure Amex content is structured, discoverable, and usable by modern answer engines and agentic systems-without compromising brand integrity, regulatory obligations, or customer trust. The Director will work hand-in-hand with the Directors of Enterprise Agentic Search and AEO/SEO to collectively deliver a comprehensive and cohesive enterprise strategy.
Key Responsibilities
Translate internal and external insights into strategic, prioritized content roadmaps (content gaps, opportunities, mitigation of inconsistent/outdated answers, etc.)
Create frameworks for prompt optimization, structured data enrichment, content readability by AI engines, and Authority S
Build content systems structured for LLM discovery, improving agent understanding and supporting optimization loops
Partner with Marketing, Product, Communications, UX Design, Data Science, Legal, and Servicing teams to drive a cohesive approach to both marketing and servicing applications.
Own the enterprise insights “spine”- the taxonomy of intents, targets, topics, behaviors, citation tracking approaches, which can be translated into prioritized recommendations for implementation.
Support “source of truth” mapping, provide governance around what types of content should leverage different distribution mechanics
Coordinate experimentation across centralized and brand-level execution
Partner with UX Design and Research teams to develop journey, prompt, and thematic studies and insights to inform content strategy
Evolve and expand enterprise AEO insights partnerships in an enterprise hub-and-spoke model, allowing for empowered, self-service capabilities for LoB partners, while providing consistent operating guardrails.
Continuous horizon scanning to assess evolution of influential content in third party ecosystem (i.e. media, social, paid search, PR, etc.)
Content operations governance, including editorial planning and calendarization, workflows, and standards
Publish and run templates, trainings, and playbooks across enterprise as required
Lead a team of managers and analysts in the delivery of the Agentic Content strategy
Qualifications
Why this role matters
The enterprise Agentic Search strategy requires a content system that is consistent, measurable, trusted, and machine-usable across channels and lines of business. This Director ensures Amex can scale content readiness for LLM ecosystems while maintaining the governance, operational discipline, and brand trust required for financial services.
Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 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 you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:
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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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