Drives governance and execution across Mastercard’s technology portfolio. The role plans and delivers complex projects, manages risks, dependencies, milestones, and roadblocks, and coordinates engineering, product, operations, and business teams. It establishes governance frameworks, improves delivery processes, maintains decision visibility, and develops dashboards, executive communications, and reporting to support leadership decision-making and accountability.
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 Technical Program Manager
Overview:
Business & Market Insights (B&MI), at Mastercard, helps organizations turn data into actionable outcomes by providing intelligence, analytics, and consulting capabilities that enable businesses to run more effectively, optimize performance, and identify new growth opportunities. B&MI empowers customers to make informed decisions, improve efficiency and profitability, and accelerate innovation through data-driven insights, predictive analytics, and market intelligence
Role:
The Technical Program Manager (TPM), Program Governance drives execution excellence across B&MI's technology portfolio by establishing governance frameworks, delivering portfolio insights, and enabling data-driven decision making. This role partners with engineering, product, operations, and business leaders to ensure strategic initiatives are aligned, risks and dependencies are managed, and delivery outcomes are transparent and predictable.
All About You:• Plan, execute, and deliver projects from inception to completion • Partner across roles and teams to ensure dependencies and risks are identified, well understood, and managed• Manage and ensure the timely scoping, design, implementation, and release of complex features• Drive innovative improvements to team processes• Proactively identify roadblocks and challenges, and brainstorm and execute contingency plans throughout project execution• Establish and maintain clarity and visibility of project decisions, expectations, and milestones Develop dashboards, executive communications, and reporting that support leadership decision-making.• Facilitate cross-functional alignment and accountability across engineering, product, operations, and business teams.
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:
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 Technical Program Manager
Overview:
Business & Market Insights (B&MI), at Mastercard, helps organizations turn data into actionable outcomes by providing intelligence, analytics, and consulting capabilities that enable businesses to run more effectively, optimize performance, and identify new growth opportunities. B&MI empowers customers to make informed decisions, improve efficiency and profitability, and accelerate innovation through data-driven insights, predictive analytics, and market intelligence
Role:
The Technical Program Manager (TPM), Program Governance drives execution excellence across B&MI's technology portfolio by establishing governance frameworks, delivering portfolio insights, and enabling data-driven decision making. This role partners with engineering, product, operations, and business leaders to ensure strategic initiatives are aligned, risks and dependencies are managed, and delivery outcomes are transparent and predictable.
All About You:• Plan, execute, and deliver projects from inception to completion • Partner across roles and teams to ensure dependencies and risks are identified, well understood, and managed• Manage and ensure the timely scoping, design, implementation, and release of complex features• Drive innovative improvements to team processes• Proactively identify roadblocks and challenges, and brainstorm and execute contingency plans throughout project execution• Establish and maintain clarity and visibility of project decisions, expectations, and milestones Develop dashboards, executive communications, and reporting that support leadership decision-making.• Facilitate cross-functional alignment and accountability across engineering, product, operations, and business teams.
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.
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