Director, Product Management

Mastercard Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 318,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Insurance benefits

401k with company match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Mastercard in New York is seeking a strategic Director of Product Management to lead a high-priority Open Finance and AI/ML risk platform. You will shape portfolio strategy, guide 0–1 concepts through launch, and scale complex payments solutions across engineering, data science, design, and go-to-market teams.

The role requires solid product leadership, experience with API-enabled or cloud products in payments, strong executive communication, and proven ability to drive revenue, profitability,

Qualifications

• Solid product management experience leading product managers or multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience launching and scaling cloud-based or API-enabled products in payments or fintech.
• Strong AI/ML product development knowledge and collaboration with data science teams.
• Ability to navigate APIs, payment flows, risk decisioning, and platform dependencies.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute portfolio strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities across the portfolio.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers with clear ownership and rhythm.
• Guide 0–1 concept development through iterative delivery, launch, and scale.
• Partner with Data Science and Engineering to develop predictive risk models and fraud controls.
• Engage financial institutions, fintechs, merchants to validate value propositions.
• Develop product positioning, pricing, and go-to-market plans for adoption and growth.
• Communicate vision to executives and align cross-functional teams for execution.
• Establish success metrics and optimize product and model performance.

Skills

Product management

Team leadership

AI/ML product development

Open finance

Payments industry knowledge

Executive communication

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Confluence

JIRA

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

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 Director, Product Management Overview

We are seeking a strategic, execution-oriented Director of Product Management to lead a team responsible for high-priority Open Finance payment solutions: a new-to-market capability designed to enable more seamless and intelligent digital payment experiences, and an AI/ML-powered payment risk suite designed to predict and prevent ACH returns and fraud. This is a uniquely compelling product leadership opportunity, combining the energy and ownership of building a new product from 0–1 with the reach, complexity, and impact of leading highly scaled solutions. This leader will shape portfolio strategy, translate customer and market needs into differentiated products, and guide solutions across the full product lifecycle- from early-stage innovation and launch through commercialization, optimization, and scale.

Role

• Portfolio Strategy: Define and execute the vision, strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities across the portfolio, balancing near-term delivery with long-term innovation and growth.
• Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers, establishing clear ownership, priorities, and operating rhythms while fostering accountability, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Product Development: Guide products from 0–1 concept development through iterative delivery, launch, and scale, ensuring clear requirements, disciplined prioritization, and strong partnership with engineering, data science, design, operations, and go-to-market teams.
• AI/ML Product Leadership: Partner closely with Data Science and Engineering to develop, optimize, and scale predictive payment risk models, fraud management capabilities, and decisioning experiences that deliver measurable customer outcomes.
• Customer and Market Insight: Engage directly with financial institutions, fintechs, merchants, and partners to validate value propositions, understand unmet needs, monitor competitive and technology trends, and translate insights into the roadmap.
• Commercialization: Develop product positioning, pricing, business cases, and go-to-market plans that support adoption, revenue growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction.
• Executive and Cross-Functional Leadership: Communicate a compelling product vision to executive leadership and align stakeholders across engineering, data science, sales, marketing, legal, privacy, operations, and support to drive decisions and execution.
• Measurement and Optimization: Establish clear success metrics, evaluate product and model performance, and use data and customer feedback to continuously improve outcomes.

All About You

• Solid product management experience, including experience leading product managers or multidisciplinary product teams.
• Demonstrated success defining strategy and launching and scaling cloud-based or API-enabled products, preferably in payments, fintech, open banking, fraud, or risk.
• Experience taking products from 0–1 while also managing established products with revenue, customer, reliability, and performance commitments.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML product development and experience partnering with Data Science teams to translate model capabilities into customer value.
• Ability to navigate technical concepts, data-driven products, APIs, payment flows, risk decisioning, and platform dependencies.
• Proven commercial judgment, including experience with market analysis, pricing, business cases, go-to-market planning, and product profitability.
• Excellent executive communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to create alignment across complex global organizations.
• Strong customer orientation and experience engaging financial institutions, fintechs, merchants, or other enterprise clients.
• Experience operating in Agile product development environments and using product planning and delivery tools such as Confluence and JIRA.
• Knowledge of open banking, ACH payments, card payments, fraud, data privacy, and security practices is preferred.

Key Behaviors

• Strategic and Decisive: Creates clarity from ambiguity, makes thoughtful trade-offs, and connects portfolio choices to customer and business outcomes.
• Execution Focused: Establishes clear priorities, owners, and milestones and works with urgency to move complex initiatives forward.
• People Leader: Builds an inclusive, high-performing team through coaching, candid feedback, empowerment, and accountability.
• Customer Focused: Understands and champions customer needs while balancing usability, risk, feasibility, and commercial impact.
• Curious and Innovative: Asks the right questions, embraces experimentation, and identifies new ways to apply data and technology to payment challenges.
• Collaborative and Influential: Leads effectively across functions and levels, including when authority is shared or indirect.
• Resilient: Maintains composure and momentum amid evolving requirements, competing priorities, and tight deadlines.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.

In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Pay Ranges

• New York City, New York: $187,000 - $318,000 USD
• Purchase, New York: $179,000 - $305,000 USD
• Salt Lake City, Utah: $156,000 - $265,000 USD

Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include:

• insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• flexible spending account and health savings account
• paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
• 401k with a best-in-class company match
• deferred compensation for eligible roles
• fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
• eligibility for tuition reimbursement
• and many more

Mastercard benefits for interns generally include:

• 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
• jury duty leave
• and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

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.