Amex Enters Stablecoin Settlement Race with Strategic Hire

American Express is hiring a Vice President of Stablecoin and Blockchain Partnerships & Strategy in New York, as part of its Digital Labs division. The role focuses on programmable money, stablecoin-enabled payments, and blockchain-based financial infrastructure. The executive will shape partnership strategy, product direction, pilot execution, and ecosystem engagement across stablecoin issuers, blockchain networks, tokenization platforms, wallets, and emerging commerce systems.

The hire gives American Express a more formal structure for evaluating how blockchain rails could fit into its payments and membership business. The company is looking for someone who can translate stablecoins, digital identity, tokenization, and blockchain infrastructure into business, technical, and risk recommendations for internal teams.

Responsibilities include driving pilots from concept through launch, building business cases, handling partner diligence, preparing operating models, and coordinating post-launch scaling. The job posting mentions platform requirements, APIs, tokenization approaches, interoperability standards, settlement, and reconciliation capabilities.