Product Intern - Winter 2025

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.

Are you ready to take your university experience and apply it in the real world? American Express has Winter 2025 internships available now. We’re looking for talented individuals who want to gain professional experience while collaborating on real business solutions. Our Internship Program lets you put your education to work on meaningful projects that have a real impact on the success of our teams. You can look forward to a mix of on-the-job experience, training, networking and mentoring – everything you’ll need to develop both personally and professionally. Because we believe the best way to back our customers is to back our people.

How will you make an impact in this role?

As a Product Intern - Winter 2025 at American Express you will shape how we engage with our customers, while developing the skills needed to be a product, marketing & business professional. This is a unique product role, as you will have the opportunity to join one of many dynamic functions at American Express.

• Project Management: Communicating project proposals and details with various stakeholders to gain alignment, identifying and executing on next steps in a timely manner.
• Technical Capabilities: Learning how frontend and backend systems operate, how Card products and feature’s function and can be improved on.
• Product/Relationship Management: Communicating with various internal and external stakeholders to align on and achieve shared goals/priorities.
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to pull and analyze data using tools such as Excel, and flex learning new platforms and systems.
• Product Marketing: Supporting an American Express product and delivering initiatives that improve and maintain portfolio health.

Skills You Will Acquire

Marketing:

• Drive results with a ‘speed-to-market’ focus, implementing initiatives from planning, management, and delivery.
• Adjust actions in response to a constantly changing digital and loyalty landscape, knowing when to adopt existing ideas and when to innovate.

Relationship Management:

• Successfully manage and coordinate efforts within and across teams to deliver against marketing plans.
• Turn relationships into productive partnerships across multiple internal and external stakeholders for successful collaboration and project/campaign success.

Communication Skills:

• Superior communication and influencing skills that result in buy-in and acceptance across multiple stakeholders.
• Present business recommendation and plans to senior leadership.

Analytical Thinking:

• An ability to select, review, and analyze performance drivers and data sets related to performance of products/services.
• Draw actionable insights from analyses and initiate collaboration with internal/external partners to optimize marketing programs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree or diploma with a demonstrated interest in product/project management (please note that students enrolled in a Masters/Graduate program are ineligible for this posting).
• Target graduation date in 2026 or 2027.
• Must be able to work full-time Monday to Friday for the duration of the internship.
• Must be able to work from our Sheppard Office in Toronto, Ontario 3 days a week as this is a hybrid internship.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability with product management, attention to detail and prioritization skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated communications skills, both written and verbal.
• A proven ability to challenge the status quo and improve existing processes.
• A focus on innovation and the desire to own a project from conception through implementation, and evaluation.
• Excellent relationship management skills, and comfort working across various levels within an organization to drive results.

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
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Career development and training opportunities

American Express is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible work environment in which all people who apply for positions or who work for or on behalf of Amex are treated with dignity and respect and are provided with equal treatment with respect to employment, regardless of that person's age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, colour, ancestry, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, family status, pregnancy, disability, record of offences, social condition or origin, political beliefs, association or activity or other factors prohibited under applicable Human Rights legislation (the “Prohibited Grounds”). If you have a disability and need accommodation, please speak with the Recruiter for more information.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.