Senior Specialist, Product Management, Global Card Programs

Mastercard Colombia, Inc.; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Specialist, Product Management, Global Card Programs to lead and operationalize strategic Global Reach product initiatives. You will focus on acceptance readiness, performance management, and new product development to drive global expansion for customers.

This highly cross-functional role sits at the intersection of product, data analytics, and go-to-market strategy, collaborating with stakeholders to scale the program into a platform that informs strategy and

Qualifications

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and translating it into clear direction.
• Analytical and data-driven, with the ability to convert insights into product decisions.
• Strong communicator with executive presence and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Self-starter with strong ownership and a bias for execution.

Responsibilities

• Establish scalable pipeline tracking and integrate program data with Product Catalog and Salesforce to improve visibility.
• Build and maintain program performance dashboards, pipeline analytics, acceptance readiness monitoring, and business reporting.
• Deliver new Global Reach Acceptance Indicator as a key driver to enhance product performance.
• Track KPIs (adoption, performance, commercial impact) and use insights to inform product strategy.
• Support pricing strategies and enhancements with data-driven analytics.
• Support client engagements with data and domain expertise.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data-driven

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Product strategy

Job description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build asustainableeconomy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactionssecure, 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, 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 acceptance readiness, performance management, and new product development

This role will help scale the program by improving visibility, monitoring, and operational effectiveness across the Global Reach portfolio. As the Senior Specialist, 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, analytics, and go-to-market strategy, with direct impact on how Mastercard enables global expansion for its customers.

Role

• Establish scalable pipeline tracking and integrating program data with Product Catalog and Salesforce to improve visibility and operational efficiency.
• Build and maintain program performance and product integrity dashboards, pipeline analytics, acceptance readiness monitoring and business reporting.
• Deliver new Global Reach Acceptance Indicator as a key driver to enhance product performance
• Track KPIs (adoption, performance, commercial impact) and use insights to inform product strategy
• Support pricing strategies and enhancements with data driven analytics
• Support client engagements with data and domain expertise

All about you

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and translating it into clear direction
• Analytical and data-driven, with the ability to convert insights into product decisions
• 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.