Manager, Product Development - Network Products

Mastercard Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Manager of Product Development for Network Products to drive next-gen network initiatives and switch development. The role focuses on end-to-end ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and delivering scalable, market-ready solutions.

You will define roadmaps, align with engineering, legal, data privacy, and servicing to ensure fast delivery and superior customer experience. Strong product management leadership and detailed requirement analysis are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to own end-to-end product development from conceptualization to go-to-market.
• Strong experience with agile delivery methodologies and backlog management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with attention to documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product development and partner with Product Management and Engineering to deliver scalable products.
• Collaborate with Legal, Data Privacy, Delivery, Finance, Marketing, Sales to ensure a robust go-to-market plan.
• Work with Servicing teams to ensure a seamless end-to-end servicing plan for users and customers.
• Ensure consistency of product vision across capabilities, scalability, performance, and readiness for growth.
• Define epics, flows, interfaces, and roadmaps; prioritize backlog and acceptance criteria.
• Produce artifacts for internal stakeholders, including diagrams and API articles.
• Lead by example in product management excellence and best practices.
• Understand systems architecture, data flows, and runtime properties of supporting products.

Skills

Product management

Agile delivery

Requirements analysis

Stakeholder management

Documentation

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 Development - Network Products Overview

Be the force behind Mastercard next generation switch as Manager, Product Development to drive the changes and bring in new opportunities.

This role is Within P&E, the Network Products team oversees Mastercard’s Next Gen Network initiatives (Transaction Switching).

Role

• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership and partner with Product Management and Engineering teams to design, develop and deliver scalable products for commercialization, ensuring the build effort concludes on time and budget, enabling a go-to-market plan focused on ease of delivery and great customer experience.
• Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders in Legal, Data Privacy, Delivery, Finance, Marketing, Sales, etc. to ensure that the new Product has a robust go-to-market plan focused on speed to market and ease of delivery
• Partner with Servicing teams (e.g CTS, Biz Ops) to ensure that the new Product has a robust E2E servicing plan that enables a great end user and customer experience
• Ensure the integrity and consistency of the delivery of the vision across all products: capabilities, scalability, performance, speed-to-market, readiness for growth, re-usability.
• Detail the epics, participate to the definition of the flows and interfaces for the product, perform joint solution design with Engineering teams, structure the roadmap and propose phasing of the delivery, prioritize the backlog, define the acceptance criteria, accept the features.
• Produce the artifacts needed by our internal customers with consistency, quality and care: sequence diagrams, capability training decks for product management, DevZone API articles, content to be inserted in product guide, …
• Lead by example with hands-on approaches to demonstrate product management excellence and share best practices
• Apply logic, reasoning, and sound decision-making skills to elaborate solutions with Engineering teams.
• Elaborate the concepts and achieve clarity of thought about what will ultimately be built.
• Fully understand the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting the products, including: business requirements, use cases, UX, back-office systems, technical stack, interfaces and associated data flows, dependent applications/services, runtime operations (i.e. trouble management/associated support strategies), and maintenance.
• Ensure replication of knowledge, share workload on initiatives, ensure mutual back-up, help the team scale, learn and expand its scope.
• Assist with new team members training

All About You

Product development experience Attention to details in requirement analysis Like to dive deep into the operational characteristics of the product Experience in agile delivery methodologies Experience in elaborating requirements, designing solutions, understanding systems capabilities and limitations by executing on features and enhancements Accountability, sense of urgency, care, passion for the domain. Superior oral and written communication and organization skills. Problem solving and pragmatic mindset, analytical skills, attention to documentation.

Additional Skills

• Experience in payment systems and transaction switching , especially Mastercard’s, is a definite plus

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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.