Manager, Product Management

Mastercard; Toronto; On-site; CAD 121,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard in Toronto is seeking a Manager of Product Management to lead the strategy and execution for identity, payments, and data-driven product initiatives. You will partner with cross-functional teams across engineering, regions, and customer success to build a strong product roadmap, mentor global teams, and translate customer needs into scalable solutions.

Experience in fintech, banking, and large tech, plus a track record of commercial impact and executive communication, is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of product concepts and best practices with a focus on strategy and new product development.
• Strong commercial sense and ability to translate product into business value.
• Experience leading globally dispersed and remote project teams.
• Excellent communication with executives and stakeholders.
• Experience developing and commercializing new products in large, matrixed organizations, fintech/banking/tech is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap, translating strategy into prioritized execution plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and deliver solutions.
• Create business cases to support funding decisions and long-term planning.
• Build relationships across Product, Engineering, Regions, Core Payments, Customer Success, Foundry.
• Prioritize the roadmap and align stakeholders to the mission.
• Create diagrams to clarify requirements, map dependencies, and assess risks.
• Maintain status records, inform stakeholders, and escalate risks with mitigations.
• Translate voice-of-the-customer metrics into actionable insights.
• Support ideation and development of future opportunities via internal/external relationships.
• Use data-driven approaches to project future revenues and expenses.

Skills

Product management

Strategy

People management

Executive communication

Fintech domain

Data-driven decisions

AI/ML awareness

Global remote teams

Job description

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 Management

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.

Overview

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.

The Identity Solutions team leads the development and delivery of innovative products that help partners identify their customers and enable simple and secure digital experiences for consumers in payments and beyond.

The Data and Insights Team within Identity - Payments is looking for a Manager of Product Management to drive our strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. This role will play a critical role in defining and executing the build of highly priority and fast paced products that will redefine the identity space at large.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap, translating strategy into prioritized execution plans and aligning cross-functional partners around shared outcomes.
• Work in a team of highly motivated and driven product manager product managers while fostering best-in-class product management practices across the group
• Create compelling, data-backed business cases that support stakeholder approval, funding decisions, and long-term commercial planning.
• Build relationships across Product, Engineering, the Regions, Core Payments, Customer Success, Foundry and other Mastercard cross functional teams to identify business opportunities, solve problems, and deliver solutions.
• Prioritize the roadmap thoughtfully and ensure stakeholders are aligned to the collective mission.
• Create business flow diagrams to clarify product requirements, map dependencies, and identify delivery risks early.
• Maintain clear project status records, keep stakeholders informed of progress, and proactively escalation risks with recommended mitigation plans.
• Bring voice-of-the-customer metrics to life in a way that will inspire and drive change
• Support the ideation and development of a strong pipeline of future opportunities leveraging internal and external relationships.
• Uses a data-driven approach to assess market opportunities and to build business cases incorporating accurate representations of future revenues and expense bases.

All About You

• A well-rounded product manager with deep understanding of product concepts and best practices, with a focus on strategy and zero-to-one new product development.
• Strong commercial acumen with an understanding of how products drive value for customers and revenue for the business
• Experienced in people management and mentoring while leading globally dispersed and remote project teams.
• Communicate effectively with executive stakeholders, delivering clear, concise updates and maintaining a strong executive presence.
• Experience developing and commercializing new products in large, matrixed organizations on a similar scale to Mastercard. Experience in fintech, banking, and large tech is desired.
• Adept at representing business and customer needs when defining product requirements.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts and maintain clear documentation for executive oversight.
• Passionate about working on fast-paced, high-priority products that impact hundreds of thousands of consumers globally.
• Committed to data-driven decision-making and using insights to guide product direction and prioritization.
• Comfortable working with emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. This posting reflects one or more current openings on our team.

Pay Ranges

Toronto, Canada: $121,000 - $169,000 CAD