Senior Technical Program Manager

MasterCard; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 3,200,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead product development and digital transformation, focusing on data science, engineering, and business impact. You will manage the product backlog, collaborate with cross‑functional teams, and drive scalable solutions that improve data flow and performance.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in technical product management, strong communication, and familiarity with AI/ML and BI platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in technical product management and project management.
• Strong interest in digital and AI/cloud technologies.
• Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into business value.
• Experience with project management tools like Git, Jira, Aha, etc. is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Understand hybrid application integrations and analytics tools to measure customer experience.
• Support stories, feature management and project planning to deliver value.
• Maintain product backlog and prioritize requirements with a data-driven approach.
• Provide operational support for new products where AI-driven recommendations are delivered.

Skills

5+ years experience

Data analysis

AI/ML awareness

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Git

Jira

Copilot

Power BI

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 Senior Technical Program Manager Job Description: Senior Specialist, Product Development, Digital Transformation & Optimization

Overview

Mastercard is a global technology company. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making payment and data transactions safe, simple, smart, and successful. 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.

The Role

• Have good understanding of hybrid application integrations, analytical tools to measure and track customer experience, like Mixtiles, and Project management frameworks/ tools like GIT, copilot and Jira
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, developing, and bringing solutions to market that meet customer needs through supporting stories, feature management and project planning, helping to make solid product decisions and deliver value
• Drive product evolution with a focus on data science, engineering and business impact by helping to maintain the product backlog, and prioritize requirements
• Provide Operational support of new products where authorization recommendations are delivered from an AI engine to an Mastercard global application
• Act as a Program Admin to support Mastercard product governance tools and services (Studio, Architecture Reviews, AI governance, Compliance and Data Security, etc.)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, data science, operations, and design to deliver scalable solutions that enhance product connectivity, data flow, and performance insight
• Continuously innovate and explore new approaches, tools, techniques, and technologies to solve business problems
• Stay updated on emerging trends in integration technologies (e.g., AI ML model & and data analytics platforms (e.g., Thoughtspot, Power BI)

Candidates based in India only

ALL ABOUT YOU

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in technical product management and project management
• Passion for all things digital and intrinsic curiosity to understand new technology like Artificial Intelligence, Cloud solutions
• Entrepreneurial spirit and global mindset with a passion for learning and using data to solve large scale business problems
• Experience using project management tools like Git, Jira, Aha, etc is preferable
• Excellent communication & influencing skills to work with internal and external stakeholders; ability to articulate problem statements, opportunity areas and complex data models
• Excellent project management and execution skills, with strong problem solving, highly analytical, quantitative communication and organizational skills
• Create and maintain material in support of product development and management: business cases, product roadmaps, success metrics, etc.
• Good to have experience with Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform/Data platforms
• Ability to articulate the business value of products and actively participate in sales enablement efforts
• Proven success in interacting with stakeholders to understand technical needs and ensure analyses and solutions effectively meet their requirements

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.