Senior Specialist, Product Management

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
Senior Specialist, Product Management
Overview:
The Senior Specialist, Network Products plays a critical role in shaping the commercial and strategic evolution of Mastercard's global network access platforms, with a strong emphasis on Edge Connectivity (Cloud, Co-Lo, On-Prem).
This role blends product strategy support, advanced financial and data analysis, commercialization planning, and executive communication, partnering closely with Product, Technology, Finance, and Regional teams. A key differentiator is the ability to translate complex platform modernization and AI-enabled insights into clear business impact and leadership-ready recommendations.
Key Responsibilities:
• Support Network Products strategy by applying AI-driven insights to improve decisions, efficiency, and innovation • Perform financial and commercial analysis to evaluate product evolution and platform transition scenarios • Assess revenue opportunities, cost structures, and potential cannibalization risks • Contribute to business cases, long-term portfolio planning, and leadership decision materials • Analyze customer behavior, usage trends, and regional adoption drivers • Support commercialization planning, including packaging, pricing considerations, and transition strategies • Build Excel-based financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses to quantify business impact • Support vendor economics analysis, including contracts, license utilization, and cost tracking • Assist with platform transition, modernization impact analysis, and transition readiness planning • Develop executive-ready presentations and translate complex analysis into clear business narratives • Partner with product, technology, finance, and regional teams to ensure cross-functional alignment
Education: • Bachelor's degree in business or equivalent work experience
Knowledge / Experience:
• 6-10 years related work experience with experience in Cloud connectivity, network management, payments, or enterprise platforms preferred • Experience supporting product strategy, commercialization, or portfolio analysis • Experience working with cross-functional product and technology teams • Strong Excel skills, including financial modeling, scenario analysis, and data analysis • Ability to analyze complex data and translate insights into business recommendations • Strong PowerPoint skills with experience creating executive-ready presentations • Comfortable learning technical system flows and network rules
Skills/ Abilities: • Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills • Strong analytical, organizational, and planning capabilities • Effective data visualization and storytelling skills • Strong business acumen with a focus on driving customer and business outcomes • Ability to collaborate across product, technology, and business teams • Ability to support discussions with senior stakeholders • Self-motivated, collaborative, and delivery-focused mindset
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.