Manager, Product Development

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

Manager, Product Development

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
Mastercard Foundry builds next-generation offerings that accelerate the future of commerce. We believe that the future of our business depends on our ability to define and differentiate innovation that drive value for our customers. Through our innovation portfolios, we partner with the product teams to create, incubate and scale new products and services.
Within Foundry, the Manager, Product Development will be supporting the execution of new to market product development - including the identification, execution, and in-market delivery of new products and solutions. The responsibilities will include execution of near-term opportunities that drive significant in year revenue and strategic differentiation for Mastercard.
The role:
• Contribute to the development of product concepts and prototypes, independently owning and delivering key workstreams.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and CX&D teams to validate concepts and conduct market testing, taking full ownership of critical deliverables.
• Lead or support the creation of business cases and strategic planning for individual product initiatives.
• Drive ideation for new-to-market products and solutions through workshop facilitation and the creation of compelling collateral.
• Develop and deliver high-quality collateral to support internal decision-making and stakeholder alignment.
• Facilitate cross-functional engagement and ensure timely follow-through on all resulting actions.
• Provide prioritized product requirements in partnership with CXD, Product, and data engineering teams.
• Act as a liaison between business units and technical teams, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Navigate a matrixed organization to influence stakeholders and drive outcomes within tight timelines.
• Establish a network within the organization; build internal and external networks
All About You
• 4-5 years relevant work experience.
• Natural problem solver: analytical, curious, and fact-driven approach to product development.
• Collaborative team player: proven track record in collaborating with multiple cross-functional (both internal and external) teams across multiple locations; facilitating challenging conversations and managing ambiguity.
• Exceptional analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Extensive experience in product development, including rapid opportunity assessment, concept creation, business model innovation, and global in-market testing.
• Strong background in translating stakeholder needs into functional specifications, user stories and process flows.
• Strategic thinker with strong technical acumen and hands-on experience collaborating with technical teams.
• Ability to manage priorities and delegate tasks effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Skills
• Experience in payments innovation, delivering differentiated, new-to-market value propositions.
• Prior experience as a business analyst role, or similar, working in agile environments.
• Background in martech or adtech environments 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:

• 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.