Senior Product Manager - Technical

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 Product Manager - Technical

Overview

As an employee at Mastercard you are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day – create value, grow together and move fast – with a relentless focus on doing the right things. As a Senior Product Manager - Technical at Mastercard, you are expected to perform the following general responsibilities:

About the role -Responsible for understanding business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends

Owns the vision for one or more features

Decomposes business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap.

Works with Technical Program Managers, Developers, UX designers, and internal customers to define the details behind the business requirements

Analyzes and interprets voice of the customer and product metrics as a feedback loop into the backlog and balances the priorities against new features

Recommends trade-off decisions on platform product features/depth of features/backlog items

Owns and manages product documentation ensuring features and associated documentation are clear and easily consumable by other engineering teams



All about you

It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas.



Collects and defines features

Proficient at grooming features & user stories, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog

Continuously monitors feature development at the feature level adjusting throughout implementation as needed

Reviews product demo against acceptance criteria for the feature set

Supports and participates in post-launch reviews and ensures feedback is reincorporated into the feature

Stays aligned with Go-To-Market plans for the feature set

Identifies issues that will keep the platform features from delivering on time and/or with the desired requirements and works with internal teams and customer service to identify, classify, and prioritize feature-level customer issues

Enables self-service support and/or works to reduce overhead

Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems involved with your projects. This includes the business requirements and associated use cases, Mastercard customer's experience, Mastercard's back-office systems, the technical slack (application/service architecture), interfaces and associated data flows, dependent applications/services, runtime operations (i.e., trouble management/associated support strategies), and maintenance.

Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases

Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them

May participate with the business in customer research to inform platform product feature needs

Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality

Verbal and written communication is clear and concise

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.