Senior Specialist, 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
Senior Specialist, Product Management
Job Overview:
Mastercard's Gateway division is seeking a dynamic and motivated Product Manager to join our team. This role is ideal for a junior product manager with a passion for driving AI adoption into their workflows. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing product strategies and roadmaps, managing product lifecycle, and ensuring maximum market penetration. They will also conduct opportunity assessments on new ideas and concepts, provide design specifications for product enhancements, and define business and technical requirements.
Role and Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning: Develop and execute product strategies and roadmaps to achieve business objectives and maximize market penetration.
Product Lifecycle Management: Manage the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch, including ongoing maintenance and enhancements.
Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including marketing, IT, finance, and customer service, to ensure alignment and successful product delivery.
Market Research: Compile and analyze market research to identify trends, opportunities, and competitive positioning.
Business Case Development: Liaise with Finance to compile data and support the development of business case justifications.
Partnership Evaluation: Research and identify potential partners for evaluation as business partners to support product areas.
AI Adoption: Drive AI adoption into workflows to enhance product development and management processes, improving efficiency and innovation.
Education:
Bachelor's degree in business or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Knowledge / Experience:
Experience in product management, product development, and project management is desirable.
Skills / Abilities:
Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Excellent organizational, planning, and follow-up skills.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and provide actionable insights.
Business acumen with the ability to provide solutions that drive positive results for both the customer and Mastercard.
Self-motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating within a team.
Interest and experience in driving AI adoption into workflows to enhance efficiency and innovation.
Work Conditions:
In office 3 days per week.
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.