Director, 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

Director, 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.

Services within Mastercard
is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution.

Role Responsibilities

1. Develop a strategic roadmap leveraging market and customer research based on Clarity and Disputes long-term vision.
2. Evaluate new opportunities for Clarity from a revenue, strategic and technology synergy POV.
3. Identify opportunities to improve value proposition of suite of Clarity products beyond dispute deflection.
4. Oversee product evolution, establish go-to-market strategy, pricing & optimize products and resources.
5. Build and deliver the roadmap of features working in a cross-functional team set-up including Engineering, Data Science, Senior Product leaders & Innovation teams of Mastercard.
6. Understand Mastercard's business model and take key financial or commercial factors into account.
7. Leverage the Studio framework to manage the delivery of ongoing innovation and enhancements to focus Products.
8. Deploy test & learn experimentation to ensure that the end user and customer experience is continuously optimized.
9. Incorporate an understanding of the broader payments ecosystem into ongoing product management (e.g., regulatory, legal, technology, competitive environment).
10. Build reusable capabilities for AI-driven product development.
11. Take accountability for the delivery of key product enhancements and partner with Guild members to deliver (e.g., CX&D, Product Management Technical).
12. Participate in cross-functional teams (e.g., Product, Product Management-Technical, CX&D) in the development of business requirements to achieve Product objectives.
13. Actively partner with the Guilds to create best practices within the Program with a focus on driving continuous improvement in the Program's operating model and make proposals to Program leadership on enhancement opportunities.
14. Drive institutionalized knowledge through the use of consistent product documentation (e.g., support documents) across the Studio framework.
15. Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning by leveraging the learning & development curriculum to augment existing knowledge, skills, and experiences.
16. Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrating product management excellence, sharing best practices, and demonstrating our Mastercard Way Values.

Experiences

1. Have knowledge and experience to leverage latest AI tools to build and scale future forward features efficiently and shorten time to market.
2. Experience building or managing data-heavy products that use ML and AI technologies.
3. Extensive experience working on product launches in multiple markets.
4. Experience independently building product strategies and driving alignment with senior executives.
5. Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases.
6. Verbal and written communication is clear and concise.
7. Improve team processes that accelerate product development, delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality.
8. Demonstrate an understanding of team performance and leadership bar and effectively apply it to hiring decisions.
9. Demonstrate experience as a people manager with the ability to attract, recruit, and develop technical talent.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with 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;
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.