Vice President, Stablecoin and Blockchain Partnerships & Strategy

About the role

Amex Digital Labs is seeking a VP, Stablecoin & Blockchain Partnerships & Strategy to define and operationalize American Express’s participation in the next generation of programmable money, stablecoin-enabled payments, and blockchain-based financial infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define the long-term ecosystem and stablecoin strategy for how American Express engages with stablecoin issuers, tokenization providers, wallets, blockchain networks, and next-generation payment rails, including priority use cases, partner selection, and strategic areas for collaboration.
• Work with the Labs Product organization to identify and prioritize opportunities across stablecoin payments, tokenized settlement, digital identity, programmable commerce, and blockchain-enabled financial infrastructure.
• Drive pilots from concept through launch, including business case development, partner diligence, controls, partner onboarding, operating model, launch readiness, and post-launch scaling.
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to evaluate future platform requirements, APIs, tokenization approaches, interoperability standards, settlement and reconciliation capabilities, and integration into American Express network technology.
• Lead relationships with partners including stablecoin issuers, blockchain infrastructure providers, wallet platforms, financial institutions, and fintechs. Influence partner roadmaps and strategic product decisioning to inform American Express' blockchain, digital asset strategy, and structure partnerships that support Amex’s product, risk, and commercial objectives.
• Partner with Go-To-Market team and key partners on risk and control framework across Compliance, Fraud, Legal, Tax, and Controllership.
• Monitor emerging regulatory, technology, and market developments and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team responsible for ecosystem strategy, partnerships, ongoing partner management and pilot execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in partnerships, technology, product, payments, fintech, or strategy roles.
• Strong understanding of payments, stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, tokenization, wallets, and emerging commerce platforms.
• Ability to influence product strategy and technical roadmaps and translate blockchain capabilities into enterprise platform integrations.
• Experience operating at the intersection of Product, Engineering, and external partners, ideally launching regulated payments, fintech, digital asset, or settlement products from concept to production.
• Prior leadership experience hiring, coaching, and leading teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Strong executive communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.