Manager, Product Experience Design

Mastercard; Bray (OK); On-site; USD 125,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking an experienced Product Experience Design Manager (IC) to join our Global SME Team. This role blends product thinking, design craft, and AI-driven workflows to shape Mastercard's business solutions and data-driven products.

You will work with UX researchers, product managers, engineers, and design systems. You'll contribute to design systems, create high-fidelity tokens, UI kits, and prototypes, turning complexity into simple customer experiences.

Qualifications

• Over 6 years of UX/UI design experience for consumer-facing products and B2B solutions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our design system between Design, Product and Engineering.
• Ensure that our User Experience optimizes business objectives and user engagement, working closely with Product Design partners & Product Managers.
• Ideate and conceptualize new features aligned with product strategies.
• Rapid prototyping of Proof-of-Concepts and MVPs using human-centered design principles.
• Create new visual designs, reusable components via high-fidelity assets, user flows, journey maps, and beyond, to achieve the best Customer Experience.
• Adapting & iterating Proof-of-Concept components onto our Design System.
• Continuously improve efficiency in the design process and the overall product experience by using atomic design principles.

Skills

UX/UI design

Figma

AI-assisted design tooling

Prototyping

Design Systems

Atomic design

Product strategy

User-centric design

Collaboration across UX/Product/Engine

Tools

Figma Make

Vibe Coding

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 Experience Design

About The Role

We are looking for an experienced & dynamic Product Experience & Design Manager (IC) to join our Global SME Team at Mastercard. This role requires a blend of product thinking, design craft, and fluency in emerging AI-driven workflows. You will play a critical role in designing the next generation of Mastercard's business solutions and data-driven products. Our UX team integrates Behavioral Science, Data, Design & Technology to create future conceptual designs, iterate design systems, and develop new product solutions that elevate existing features. If you're passionate about Design Systems and components, live in Figma, are driven by user-centric solutions, and are interested in learning advanced product design skills then we'd love to hear from you.

About Product Experience Design

As a Product Experience Designer, you'll work closely with UX Research, Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and more. In addition to contributing to our Design System, you'll be creating & building new experiences to increase conversion rates by creating reusable components via high-fidelity design tokens, UI Kits that address technical challenges, and applying advanced interaction design prototypes. As an empathetic user advocate, you strive to turn complexity into simple beautiful solution that meet customers' needs. You love building great products by applying best practices and standards to create innovative products. We're always evolving and learning, it's a place where you'll grow as a professional, both individually and as a team. You'll help us to design the best Customer Experience for a range of even more innovative things we can't talk about yet! As a Mastercard's CX&Design community member, you'd have access to our internal Guild of hundreds of designers, researchers, and strategists, training, and professional development.

What you'll be doing

• Contribute to our design system between Design, Product and Engineering.


• Ensure that our User Experience optimizes business objectives and user engagement, working closely with Product Design partners & Product Managers.


• Ideate and conceptualize new features aligned with product strategies.


• Rapid prototyping of Proof-of-Concepts and MVPs using human-centered design principles.


• Create new visual designs, reusable components via high-fidelity assets, user flows, journey maps, and beyond, to achieve the best Customer Experience.


• Adapting & iterate Proof-of-Concept components onto our Design System.


• Continuously improve efficiency in the design process and the overall product experience by using atomic design principles.

Skills you should hold

• Over 6 years of UX/UI design experience for consumer-facing products and B2B solutions.


• A master & advanced proficiency in Figma, including component systems, prototyping, and scalable design systems.


• Experience using Figma Make (or similar AI-assisted design tooling) to accelerate ideation, prototyping and iteration.


• Hands-on experience with Vibe Coding or similar rapid prototyping approaches where design and code converge.


• Ability to iterate & craft detailing new components based on a design North Star.


• Strong UX focus and understanding of component properties, behaviours and grids.


• A solid understanding of User Experience with B2B and B2B2C business models, with experience in launching global products being a huge plus.


• Ability to think strategically about product strategy and articulate design iterations.


• Experience adapting to changes and implementing updates to keep the design system relevant.


• Ability to understand technical implications in design decisions.


• You practice Design Thinking and can demonstrate success in bringing products to market using this methodology.


• Passion for solving problems and being challenged.


• Adaptability - constant willingness to learn and hit the ground running.


• Initiative and ability to collaborate independently.


• Track record of resilience, agility, and ability to thrive in dynamic growth environments.


• You're a doer with a clean visual design sense.


• Curious and passionate about innovating Product Design.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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.