Manager, Product Management, Global Card Programs

Mastercard; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Product Management for Global Card Programs to help scale the Global Reach portfolio. You will own execution and governance across strategic initiatives, partnering with product, network, operations, and GTM teams to drive growth.

You will shape strategy, ensure product integrity, and enable sales enablement, with a focus on monetization and governance in a cross-functional environment that spans global markets.

Qualifications

• Strong project management experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication with executive presence
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and driving clear direction
• Self-starter with ownership and bias for execution
• Creative and solution-oriented with a track record of challenging the status quo

Responsibilities

• Manage market and competitive intelligence for global issuance programs
• Gain alignment with cross-functional stakeholders to productize Global Reach
• Manage governance and project management activities to drive operational excellence
• Enable commercialization by developing sales enablement and marketing materials
• Develop go-to-market models for Global Reach (Localized, Hybrid)
• Create a product implementation guide for customer onboarding with clear criteria
• Assess value propositions and inform strategies to offer differentiated offerings to customers

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.