Specialist, Product Management

Mastercard Inc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. in Pune is seeking a Title and Summary Specialist, Product Management to shape product strategies and roadmaps, own end-to-end feature delivery, and collaborate with engineering and business teams.

You will refine requirements, manage backlogs, participate in Agile ceremonies, and track KPI-driven outcomes to drive market success for Mastercard's product portfolio. Join a cross-functional team that translates business needs into actionable requirements, ensuring quality releases

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in product management, product development, and project management.
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational, planning and follow-up skills.
• Business acumen with the ability to provide solutions that drive positive results to Mastercard.
• Self motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating within a team.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end delivery of prioritized product features, with clear acceptance criteria and outcomes.
• Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog balancing customer value and technical dependencies.
• Lead product participation in Agile ceremonies like sprint planning and retrospectives.
• Partner with engineering to translate business needs into actionable requirements.
• Drive feature validation, release readiness, and go-live execution.
• Define KPI metrics and analyze adoption trends to inform roadmaps.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Backlog prioritization

Data-driven decisions

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in business

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Roadmapping tools

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 Specialist, Product Management

Job Overview: Develops product strategies and roadmaps to execute to ensure maximum penetration of market segments. Manages and maintains existing product lines on an on-going basis, including partner management. Conducts opportunity assessments on new ideas and concepts. Provides design specifications for product enhancements to Product Development. Defines business and technical requirements, and manages the relationships of technical resources and the Global Technology Organization to maintain and build out platforms.

Major Accountabilities

• Product Feature Delivery: Own the end-to-end delivery of prioritized product features, ensuring requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and customer outcomes are clearly defined and successfully executed
• Backlog Management & Prioritization: Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog by balancing customer value, business impact, technical dependencies, platform health, and engineering capacity
• Agile Execution & Ceremony Ownership: Lead product participation in Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to drive alignment, decision-making, and predictable delivery
• Engineering Partnership: Partner closely with engineering leaders and development teams to translate business needs into actionable requirements, resolve tradeoffs, and manage delivery risks throughout the development lifecycle.
• Product Testing & Release Management: Drive feature validation, user acceptance testing readiness, release planning, and go-live execution to ensure new capabilities meet quality standards and are delivered with minimal operational risk. support product areas
• Feature KPI & Success Tracking: Define, monitor, and communicate feature success metrics, adoption trends, and business outcomes, leveraging data-driven insights to inform future roadmap and investment decisions

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent work experience

Knowledge / Experience

• Experience in product management, product development, and project management

Skills/ Abilities

• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational, planning and follow-up skills
• Strong analytical skills desirable
• Business Acumen with the ability to provide solutions that drive positive results to the customer and Mastercard
• Self motivated with a proven track record of delivering success while operating within a team

Work Conditions

• General office environment

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.