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
Job Description Summary
• Are you passionate about payments and intricacies of card processing and transaction acceptance?
• Do you feel comfortable working through a very specific execution challenge one day and convincingly present a high-level roadmap to the leadership team the next day?
• Do you feel comfortable speaking to both technical and business audiences and do so with clarity and passion?
The Mastercard Gateway product management team is part of a global product function at the centre of payments innovation delivering leading customer experiences through our connected gateway. As part of this remit the team is responsible for defining the strategy, and executing the delivery of, market-leading payment gateway products & value-added services to our acquirers and merchants on a global basis.
He/She will work closely with our Global Product Directors and regional leads to determine market needs and roll out suitable products and solutions that will enrich our local payment offerings across key markets.
The Role
• Work across multiple functions and teams to drive strategy alignment, align roadmaps, propose solutions and progress against objectives
• Participate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business management
• Perform product management epic and feature definition to support the Gateway program and perform tasks in the product development lifecycle
• Provides functional information to technical developers on translating product requirements into technical specifications
• Participates in development of functional specifications/requirements specific products, pilot product launches and in business awareness sessions/trainings
All About You
• Product management experience in payment products and card payment processing related discipline
• Can talk about the customer value of a new feature with the business teams as well as discuss technical solution trade-offs with the engineering team.
• Experience executing on product features and enhancements and gaining awareness of underlying platform capabilities and limitations
• Is able to document product functionalities well to enable implementation efficiently.
• Has experience in working in an Agile development environment,
• Be able to collaborate cross-functionally and influence stakeholders at various levels across multiple geographies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to interface with clients
• Showcase strong organizational skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks effectively, and ensure timely completion of deliverables
• Bachelor’s degree in business or relevant experience
Technical background (e.g. Computer Science or related field) 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:
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Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
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Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
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Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
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Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
