Lead Product Manager, Emerging Data Signals

Mastercard; Dunboyne; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Product Manager to drive strategy and delivery of emerging transaction data products, including notifications, consent, and intelligent data services.

You will partner with engineering, privacy, legal, and customers to build scalable API-driven platforms, leveraging AI-enabled tools to accelerate discovery and execution while ensuring secure, compliant customer experiences.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing digital products, APIs, platforms, or data products.
• Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap development, customer discovery, and agile execution.
• Experience working with authentication, identity, transaction data, financial services, payments, or adjacent domains.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI technologies to improve product development, customer experiences, or business outcomes.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
• Experience translating complex customer challenges into scalable product solutions.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for innovation and continuous learning.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing ambiguity, and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Passion for technology innovation and building products that deliver measurable customer value.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for a portfolio of transaction data, consent, authentication, and data-driven platform products.
• Lead the evolution of Mastercard's transaction notification and consent platforms, delivering capabilities that create value for developers, financial institutions, merchants, and fintech partners.
• Identify customer needs, market opportunities, and emerging industry trends to shape product direction and investment priorities.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to define requirements and deliver scalable API-driven platforms.
• Work directly with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to validate product concepts and translate customer needs into product capabilities.
• Drive product discovery, prioritization, and delivery, balancing customer value, business objectives, and technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with privacy, security, and legal teams to ensure responsible and compliant product development.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools and modern product management practices to accelerate discovery, improve decision-making, and increase execution velocity.
• Define success metrics, analyze product performance, and use data-driven insights to continuously improve customer outcomes.

Skills

Digital product management

APIs

Data products

Agile execution

AI-enabled product development

Engineering collaboration

Customer discovery

Stakeholder management

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

Lead Product Manager, Emerging Data Signals

Overview

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our purpose is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.

The Emerging Data Signals team is seeking a Lead Product Manager to drive the strategy, development, and delivery of Mastercard's next generation transaction data products, including transaction notifications, consent, authentication, and intelligent data services.

This role will define and deliver products that help customers securely access, verify, and act on transaction data in real time. The successful candidate will work across product, engineering, commercialization, privacy, legal, and customer teams to build scalable platforms that power authentication, decisioning, and trusted digital experiences.

We are looking for a product leader who embraces AI-first product development, leverages data to drive decisions, and is passionate about turning emerging technologies into customer value. The ideal candidate combines strong product management fundamentals with a curiosity for emerging technologies and a demonstrated ability to use AI-enabled tools to improve product outcomes and accelerate execution.

Role

• Own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for a portfolio of transaction data, consent, authentication, and data-driven platform products.
• Lead the evolution of Mastercard's transaction notification and consent platforms, delivering capabilities that create value for developers, financial institutions, merchants, and fintech partners.
• Identify customer needs, market opportunities, and emerging industry trends to shape product direction and investment priorities.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to define requirements and deliver scalable API-driven platforms.
• Work directly with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to validate product concepts and translate customer needs into product capabilities.
• Drive product discovery, prioritization, and delivery, balancing customer value, business objectives, and technical feasibility.
• Collaborate with privacy, security, and legal teams to ensure responsible and compliant product development.
• Leverage AI-enabled tools and modern product management practices to accelerate discovery, improve decision-making, and increase execution velocity.
• Define success metrics, analyze product performance, and use data-driven insights to continuously improve customer outcomes.

All About You

• Significant experience managing digital products, APIs, platforms, or data products.
• Strong understanding of product strategy, roadmap development, customer discovery, and agile execution.
• Experience working with authentication, identity, transaction data, financial services, payments, or adjacent domains.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI technologies to improve product development, customer experiences, or business outcomes.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to collaborate effectively with engineering teams.
• Experience translating complex customer challenges into scalable product solutions.
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a passion for innovation and continuous learning.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, managing ambiguity, and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Passion for technology innovation and building products that deliver measurable customer value.

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.