Senior Specialist, Product Development

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 Development

Overview

The Payment Gateway Front-End and Experience Team is looking for a Product Manager to help drive our Data and Reporting domain.

The ideal candidate is a creative and technical individual with a passion for data, innovation and problem solving.

The role is for a level 7 product manager who will work across functional teams such as Engineering, Regional Product, UX, Data experts to deliver truly differentiated solutions. The role is positioned to support in driving new ideas forward by combining creative thought leadership, innovation and best practices.

Role

The successful candidate's primary responsibilities will be to:

• Support and elaborate the data and reporting vision and strategy.
• Own the product lifecycle for our data products, from ideation and requirements definition to release and iterative improvement.
• Lead key activities to support roadmap execution, linking it to a quantifiable product scorecard, monitoring and optimizing performance.
• Actively engage in innovation initiatives, data resources and capability assessment with a futuristic lens.
• Assess, design and prioritize product features, coordinating with leadership, Engineering and business on work status.
• Provide oversight and product engagement for market testing, release and rollout.
• Bring the customer perspective to life in a way that has impact and drives change.
• Champion a data-driven culture and push for new frameworks and protocols for data.
• Adapt product enhancements continuously to customers needs, market trends and competitive opportunities.
• Work with the domain leadership on the data vision, roadmap and strategies.

All About You

Proven experience in the data environment, applied to payments, or related roles, preferably in a large enterprise.

Experience in designing data product, including data architecture, data user experiences and data implementation.

Be proficient in the best practices of data governance and data management theories, practices, methods and principles.

Strong focus on delivering customer value and building customer relationships.

Be a successful team player with experience in developing and utilizing data for user experiences, including self-serving ones.

Have an innovative mindset using data for machine learning/AI ops and new user experiences in a data-driven culture.

Proven track record of collaborating effectively in cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional repeatable solutions/products and features.

Demonstrate drive for results and a desire to succeed, follow through commitments and push self and others to deliver exceptional results.

Desire to grow in product management disciplines.

Skills & experience

Previous experience in a data product solutions environment (reporting, analytics, Data Science, AI, etc.).

Agile product management, particularly with analytical products and/or business intelligence solutions.

Knowledge and skills in product management tools and best practices.

Great organizational skills, capable of managing multiple priorities and competing tasks efficiently.

Strong communication & influencing skills to work with internal and external stakeholders, with ability to clearly articulate problem statements and opportunity areas.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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.