Manager, Product Management, Global Card Programs

Mastercard Inc.; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. is seeking a Manager, Product Management for Global Card Programs to lead the Global Reach initiative. You will partner across product, network, and go-to-market teams to transform the program into a scalable platform and deliver strategic insights, governance, and commercialization tooling.

This role requires strong cross-functional collaboration, executive influence, and the ability to translate ambiguity into a clear path for execution across a global program.

Qualifications

• Strong project management experience.
• Excellent communication with executives and senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Self-starter with ownership and bias for execution.

Responsibilities

• Own and operationalize Global Reach product initiatives.
• Coordinate with product, network, and GTM teams to ensure governance and delivery.
• Develop sales enablement and marketing materials to support commercialization.
• Create go-to-market models (Localized, Hybrid) for Global Reach.
• Define product criteria, eligibility and rules for each model.
• Assess value propositions (e.g., card benefits) with global reach.
• Drive cross-functional alignment to scale the program.

Skills

Project management

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Ownership & execution

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 Management, Global Card Programs Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, connecting and powering an inclusive, digital economy by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. The Global Reach Partner Program (GRPP) enables issuers to expand into new markets without a local license through a compliant, reverse-solicitation model. As the program scales, there is a clear opportunity to evolve the issuing model into a more robust, product-led platform that supports global growth at scale. We are looking for a product manager to help support this evolution and own the execution and operationalization of strategic Global Reach product initiatives, with a focus on strategic insights, product integrity, governance, and commercialization tooling. This role will help scale the program by improving visibility, monitoring, and operational effectiveness across the Global Reach portfolio. As the Manager, Product Management, Global Card Programs, you will partner with the team to transform an initial program into a fully realized platform. This is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of product, network, franchise, operations, and go-to-market strategy, with direct impact on how Mastercard enables global expansion for its customers.

Role

• Manage market and competitive intelligence for global issuance programs
• Gain alignment with cross-functional stakeholders to productize Global Reach (i.e., Product Studio approval process)
• Manage governance and project management activities to drive operational excellence
• Enable commercialization by developing sales enablement and marketing materials
• Develop new go-to-market models for Global Reach (e.g., Localized, Hybrid)
• Create a product implementation guide to support customer onboarding with clearly defined product criteria, eligibility and rules for each go-to-market model
• Assess implications on value propositions (e.g., card benefits) with global reach and inform strategies to ensure Mastercard continues to offer differentiated, competitive offerings to customers

All About You

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and translating it into clear direction
• Strong project management experience and highly organized
• Strong communicator with executive presence and the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization
• Able to bring structure, clarity, and momentum to complex problems
• Creative and solution-oriented, with a track record of challenging the status quo
• Self-starter with strong ownership and a bias for execution

Why this role matters

Global Reach Issuing is redefining how our customers expand internationally. Success in this role will unlock new growth opportunities for our customers and strengthen Mastercard’s position at the center of global commerce.

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.