Direcor, 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

Direcor, Product Management (Transaction Processing)Overview

This position is responsible for establishing and supporting the execution of the Mastercard Cross-Border Services Product Management roles and responsibilities. This team leadership role works in conjunction with other stakeholders' teams and runs a team that draft the business/product requirements for product development and complete all product and project readiness activities required to commercialize new features and functionalities.

Responsibilities Overview:

• The Product Manager (transaction processing lead) will be responsible for leading a team of product managers to support all commercialized use cases of Mastercard Cross Border services at functional as well as technical (platform) level.
• This role shall become a subject matter expert in Mastercard cross border services, and platform feature capabilities.
• Act as a SME for all aspects of the product, leading and training internal stakeholders and regional partners on how the products works and why.
• Analyze new product enhancement initiatives and define the product requirements.
• Articulate and quantify market problems and defines opportunities leveraging our inherent capabilities and competence.
• Provide thought leadership to create a compelling product vision for new Cross-Border offerings with enhanced capabilities and business value.
• Partner with Product Owners to quantify and elaborate business requirements and ensure what is delivered meets the Product needs and requirements.
• Adhere to the product development life cycle and include the Studio and P&E partnership principals to deliver all prioritized projects.
• Employ best practices on product development activities and encourage and lead team members to deliver best in class solutions with a critical view on time to market and deliver with ownership of all deliverables
• Perform product/technical deep dives with internal stake holders
• Support product development roadmap and manages the relationships of technical product management teams and the Global Technology teams to maintain and build out platforms and processes across cross functional teams.

About You:

• 5-8 years of experience in product management and development with at least 3-4 years in leadership positions
• A deep understanding of Cross-Border payment flows, API technologies, information security, SWIFT formats, FX management and compliance is required.
• Must have excellent organization and product management skills.
• Must be detail oriented and have excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Must be self-motivated, self-driven and drive tasks and projects to completion.
• Proven ability to build working relationships efficiently and effectively with many diverse groups, in many different time zones.
• Proven experience building and delivering product enhancements.
• Offer leadership credentials and mentoring pedigree

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.