Senior Specialist, Product Management (Product Manager | Payments | Merchant Services | Fintech | Banking Experience)

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 (Product Manager | Payments | Merchant Services | Fintech | Banking Experience)

Overview
• Acts as an incubation phase for the creation of new products
• Roles in this family focus on product development/management; that lead the definition and delivery of a new products and enhancements as a product manager in Mastercard Payment Gateway team to meet current and future business needs (eg, consumer, merchants, banks, governments, issuers)

Role
• Core Areas (Acquiring, Gateways, Product Development, Alternate Payment Methods)
• Generates new and innovative product solutions that support organizational or product/segment strategy
• Owns the definition and delivery of strategic initiatives that articulate the product requirements and technical solutions required to enable this critical capability and change how commerce occurs online.
• Identifies and consolidates development needs from product management teams and regional stakeholders
• Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish product development directives and initiatives
• Performs assigned tasks in the product development life cycle, monitors project roadmaps for specific development projects and supports budget management
• Participates in development of functional specifications/requirements specific products, pilot product launches and in business awareness sessions/trainings
• Provides functional information to technical developers on translating product requirements into technical specifications
• Monitors the efficiency of development and implementation processes, and contributes to continuous improvement efforts

All about you
• Has in-depth knowledge of the payment domain, acquiring & gateway business, alternative payment channels
• Has strong background in product management with ability to identify innovative product features by drawing insights from competitor market data
• Experience executing on product features and enhancements and gaining awareness of underlying platform capabilities and limitations
• Has an understanding of underlying platform capabilities and limitations by executing on features and enhancements
• Brings about holistic product design mindset with an empathetic understanding of user journey.
• Is able to document product functionalities well to enable implementation efficiently.
• Has experience in working in an Agile development environment, SAFe expertise as a big plus
• Has the right attitude to be a team player and managing multiple stakeholders

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.