Associate Manager Product Management, Strategy & Growth

Mastercard Inc.; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Specialist in Product Management within the Business & Market Insights unit. You will lead development of client-centric solutions, partner with product, sales, and regions, and shape go-to-market execution across multiple channels and markets.

The role requires translating complex customer needs into scalable offerings and driving commercial success through cross-functional leadership and analytics-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Strategic ability to translate client needs and Mastercard priorities into scalable, integrated solutions.
• Strong understanding of enterprise buying centers and multi-channel GTM models.

Responsibilities

• Identify and define priority solutions aligned to client needs and Mastercard priorities.
• Collaborate with Global Product Managers to design differentiated, scalable solutions across markets.
• Monitor market feedback and inform prioritization of product and regional roadmaps.

Skills

Strategic solutioning

Commercial & GTM acumen

Product integration

Roadmap influence

Cross-functional leadership

Client centric mindset

Analytics & insights fluency

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 Specialist, Product Management, B&MI

Business & Market Insights (B&MI) is Mastercard Services’ analytics and insights engine, translating complex data into clear, actionable decisions. By combining proprietary data assets, advanced analytics, and deep industry expertise, B&MI helps organizations improve performance today while unlocking new growth opportunities for tomorrow—across strategy, operations, and innovation.

The Senior Specialist, Product Management, B&MI plays a critical role in accelerating B&MI’s strategic growth by shaping, integrating, and scaling solutions that address both immediate and long term customer needs. This role will lead the development of compelling, client centric solutions and narratives and enable go to market execution across multiple sales channels, regions, and customer buying centers.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Solution Development

• Identify and define priority solutions aligned to client needs, market dynamics, and Mastercard’s strategic priorities.
• Design and develop best fit, cross B&MI solutions in close partnership with Global Product Managers, ensuring solutions are differentiated, scalable, and commercially viable across markets.
• Ensure solutions effectively balance near term client value with longer term strategic growth opportunities.

Cross Functional and Enterprise Collaboration

• Partner closely with key stakeholders across Mastercard Services and the broader Mastercard organization to enable cross Services and enterprise wide solutioning.
• Act as a connector across product, sales, consulting, and regional teams to ensure alignment from solution design through commercialization.
• Support integration of B&MI offerings into broader Mastercard propositions where relevant.

Product and Roadmap Partnership

• Monitor market feedback and client adoption to inform continuous solution refinement.
• Partner with Product leadership to inform prioritization of product and regional roadmap needs based on solution requirements, market demand, and GTM insights.
• Provide structured feedback loops from the field to help shape future product investments and enhancements.

All About You

• Strategic Solutioning: Ability to translate complex customer needs and Mastercard priorities into scalable, integrated solutions.
• Commercial & Go to Market Acumen: Strong understanding of enterprise buying centers and multi channel GTM models, with a focus on growth and adoption.
• Product Integration & Roadmap Influence: Proven experience partnering with product leaders to shape solution design and inform product and regional roadmap priorities.
• Cross Functional Leadership: Demonstrated success influencing and aligning diverse global teams across product, sales, consulting, and regions without direct authority.
• Client Centric Mindset: Deep focus on delivering client relevant, outcome driven solutions that balance immediate impact with long term value creation.
• Analytics & Insights Fluency: Strong familiarity with data driven decisioning, analytics led solutions, and insight based consulting offerings.
• Execution Excellence: Results driven mindset with experience moving from concept to commercialization and enabling sales teams to execute effectively.

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.