Lead Product Manager- Technical-R-248709

Mastercard; Missouri; On-site; USD 119,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Product Manager - Technical to drive product vision and strategy. This individual will shape platform products, influence product roadmaps, and ensure exceptional customer experiences. Ideal candidates will have strong product development and technical skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401k with company match

Flexible spending account

Paid vacation and sick days

Tuition reimbursement

Fitness reimbursement

Qualifications

• Experiences with AI/ML, Distributed Systems, Microservices are a big plus.
• Strong technical and business judgment required.
• Experience in mentoring team members.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing product visions derived from business needs.
• Uses the Working Backwards method to define business requirements.
• Collaborates with Technical Program Managers and engineers.

Skills

Product development

Technical judgment

Collaboration

Customer experience

Education

BS/MBA in related discipline

Tools

Java

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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

Lead Product Manager- Technical

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

Lead Product Manager- Technical

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

A Lead Product Manager - Technical is an individual contributor with the unique opportunity organize, guide, and influence product roadmaps.

As a Lead Product Manager - Technical, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our platform products. This is a high-impact, individual contributor position where you will drive product vision, strategy, and execution by aligning business needs with cutting-edge technology trends. You will be responsible for defining and delivering platform capabilities that power exceptional customer experiences and scalable business solutions.

Responsibilities For This Role Include

• Responsible for developing inspiring platform/product visions, derived from business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends
• Using the Working Backwards method, decomposes business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap
• Works with Technical Program Managers, Developers, UX designers, and internal customers to define the details behind the business requirements
• Collects and shares user stories with engineering teams
• Acts as the voice of the business customer and accountable for the platform services
• Owns the working backwards document and vision for feature releases
• Identifies gaps and charters new platform capabilities as required
• Makes use of research, user studies, metrics and competitive analysis to understand the platform and business needs for a platform product
• Compares features for competitive review to inform prioritization within a platform product release
• Identifies innovations or performs test and learn experiments to create features that add more business and customer value for a platform product
• Participates with the business in customer research to inform platform product feature needs
• Contributes near-term input (quarterly) for the platform product portfolio and roadmap
• Makes trade-off decisions on platform product features
• Uses runtime metrics of their services in market as a feedback loop in to the backlog and balances the priorities against new feature requests
• Exhibits expertise within platform feature area and coordinates with interdependent teams
• Digests business customer requirements (user stories, use cases) and platform requirements for a platform feature set
• Has visibility into the design of the user experience
• Determines release goals for the platform and prioritizes assigned features according to business and platform value, adjusting throughout implementation as needed
• Continuously monitors feature development at the feature level
• Reviews product demo with the development team against acceptance criteria for the feature set
• Prepares launches and monitors platform performances, adoption, and operational health for feature sets
• Stays aligned with GTM plans for the feature set
• Identifies issues that will keep the platform features from delivering on time and/or with the desired requirements and communicates to leadership
• Supports and participates in post-launch reviews and ensures feedback is reincorporated into the feature
• Works with internal teams and customer service to identify, classify, and prioritize feature-level customer issues
• Develops and implements new metrics into measurement techniques; works with development teams to develop reports to monitor them
• Independently identifies and researches anomalous performance; escalates findings to senior management
• Coordinates internal forums to collect and identify feature-level development opportunities
• Owns and manages product documentation; enables self-service support and/or works to reduce overhead
• Identifies feature risks from business and customer feedback and in-depth analysis of operational performance; shares with senior leadership
• Establishes a network within the organization; begins to build internal and external networks
• Mentoring team member
  
  
  

All About You

Obsess about delivering the best end-to-end customer experience

Own the problem space and do what it takes to design and deliver the complete product

Collaborate with peers to deliver consistent technology and experiences across our portfolio

Demonstrate sound technical and business judgment

Be able to read code (Java), collaborate with designers & architects, rapidly learn new technologies, and choose the right technologies and solutions

Debate the merits of options with engineers, architects, designers and business teams to drive the right trade-offs

Dive deep into the intricacies of the customers’ context, the technical code or architecture, and the operational characteristics of the product

Communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity Ensure features and associated documentation are clear and easily consumable by other engineering teams

Demonstrated experience building organizational relationships, partnering with and influencing teams while commanding the respect of the individuals on the team

Product development or engineering experience

Experiences with AI/ML, Distributed Systems, Microservices are a big plus

BS/MBA in related discipline

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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $119,000 - $190,000 USD

R-248709

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management and Marketing

• Industries

  Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Technology, Information and Internet

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