Director, Product Management

Mastercard; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Global Product Manager for the Virtual Card Platform to lead the end-to-end product vision in a fast-growing B2B payments space. You will partner with engineering, product, and regional teams to translate strategy into delivered capabilities.

This role focuses on translating customer needs into technical requirements, driving product roadmaps, demos, and go-to-market plans while building strong relationships with partners and stakeholders across the organization.

Qualifications

• Background in product management and development.
• Experience with Agile development.
• Experience in customer engagement / business development.
• Go-to-market planning and execution experience.
• Knowledge of technology development & operations.
• Experience in commercial payments.
• Proven ability to work with global, multi-cultural and remote teams.
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills with data-driven insights.
• Ability to interact with varying levels of leadership across the organization.
• Ability to influence and build consensus with internal and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineering scrum teams to deliver products that meet business requirements.
• Drive development of new products in response to customer needs, market trends, and opportunities.
• Engage with regional teams to support partners and customers on product roadmap, implementation and demos.
• Generate and evaluate ideas to enhance Mastercard's suite of product offerings and create a competitive advantage.

Skills

Product management

Agile development

Customer engagement

Go-to-market

Leadership communication

Data analytics

Communication skills

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, were 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 Management

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better business results.

Job Title

Global Product Manager, Virtual Card Platform

Overview

Global Business-to-Business (B2B) payment flows represent a $125T opportunity. Most of it happens on non-card rails, representing tremendous growth opportunity for Mastercards Commercial Cards business. Accelerating the adoption of Commercial Payments is a strategic imperative for Mastercard and this role is critical to our team meeting our growth aspirations. The In Control platform for Commercial Payments (ICCP) and In Control for Business Travel (ICBT) are part of the Commercial Platform family that is responsible for delivering safe, smart, and simple payment solutions to middle and large market segment supporting both travel (T&E) and B2B payments. The In Control platform https://www.mastercard.com/incontroldemo/en/home.html is a key to driving core brand and services revenue for the middle and large market commercial segments, supporting both T&E and B2B payments.

The successful candidates primary responsibilities will be to:

• Work closely with engineering scrum teams to deliver products that meet business requirements
• Drive development of new products in anticipation of or response to customer needs, market trends, and competitive opportunities
• Engage directly with regional teams to support partners and customers on product roadmap, product implementation and demos
• Generate and evaluate ideas to enhance Mastercards suite of product offerings and create a competitive advantage

Role:

This role requires the successful candidate to:

• Translate product requirements into technical specifications, ensuring mutual understanding between business/customers and engineering to deliver high quality products
• Interact successfully with Product, Technology and Operations support staff to meet the needs of our customers
• Develop deep knowledge of payment processing and the overall commercial business
• Validate technical delivery and ensure that delivered functionality complies with the product requirements and is fit-for-purpose
• Curiosity to develop a long-term vision for virtual card and tokenized payments to capture market share

All About You:

• Background preferred in one or more of the following:
• Product management and development
• Agile development
• Customer engagement / Business development
• Go-to-market planning and execution
• Technology Development & Operations
• Commercial payments
• Demonstrated success in building relationships and delivering results with global, multi-cultural and remote project teams
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical skills with ability to drive deep product insights from data
• Ability to take independent action and be comfortable interacting with varying levels of leadership across the organization, both internal and external
• Strong ability to interact with, influence, and build consensus across a variety of internal business units, external partners, and service providers
• Familiarity .