Principal Product Manager-Technical

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Principal Product Manager-Technical

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Services Portfolio Management team seeks a Principal Product Manager-Technical to support our Services Product Portfolio of over 450 products. Responsibilities include Localization Enablement, Portfolio Insights, and Analytics through product analysis and problem-solving. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in one of Mastercard's Services verticals: Business & Marketing Insights (BMI), Open Banking, Consumer Acquisitions and Enablement (CAE), or Security Solutions (SSO). They should have a background in product development, be highly motivated, innovative, intellectually curious, analytical, and possess an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
• Make use of market research, user studies, metrics, and/or internal documentation, regulatory publications to understand the technical and business needs of a product/platform.
• Identify risks based on in-depth analysis of products and market/regulatory signals
• Own the breakdown and documentation of product vision into product development deliverables
• Identify gaps and draft new platform capabilities as required
• Assist in setting the vision and direction for products
• Develop and exhibit expertise within a platform feature area and coordinates with interdependent teams
• Own communication with impacted parties, including executive leadership
• Analyze recommendations of Strategy initiatives and determine execution steps.

All About You
• Experience with either one of Mastercard's Services verticals - Business & Marketing Insights(BMI), Open Banking, Consumer Acquisitions and Enablement(CAE), or Security Solutions(SSO)
• Has experience in systems analysis and application design and development.
• Experience with regulatory initiatives and interest in geopolitical developments is a big plus
• Can deliver high quality technology products/services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly
• Ability to analyze data and systems to build and validate assumptions
• Can perform cost benefit analysis and develop business cases
• Proven communicator able to articulate succinctly and clearly in both written and verbal communication to a variety of disciplines and management levels.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with complete independence and autonomy.
• Ability to leverage generative AI tools to accelerate day to day tasks is a plus.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.