VP, Data & Analytics Product Strategy

Mastercard; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 235,000 - 375,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Annual bonus or commissions

401k with company match

Paid time off

On-site fitness facilities

Job summary

Mastercard in Arlington, VA seeks a visionary Vice President of Product Management for Data and Analytics to lead a global team of data scientists and analytics professionals. You will own strategy, delivery, and scale of bespoke analytics engagements and reusable assets across enterprise clients.

The role requires executive presence, strong business acumen, and the ability to drive cross‑functional programs with measurable impact on customer experience and revenues.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead in a matrix environment.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with complete independence and autonomy.
• Proven track record of data driven decision making and applying continuous improvement and test and learn methodologies across teams.
• Demonstrated experience as a leader of leaders with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop product talent.
• Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a business owner and manages long-term and short-term strategic initiatives for custom analytics (analytics consulting) and products derived from those custom analytics.
• Develop and deliver a consistent product vision, strategy and roadmap for custom analytics, configured analytics, and new products derived from custom and configured analytics.
• Drive tangible data‑driven business outcomes at the analytics program level, manage to a quantified scorecard continuously monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators and optimizing custom analytics product performance.
• Oversee product incubation and evolution, establish go‑to‑market strategy, optimize products and resources, implement incremental improvements within the product’s life cycle, conduct ongoing care and maintenance, and manage P&L
• Establish and drive product management disciplines across the product lifecycle, e.g., Studio framework, Agile development and product quality, ensuring product readiness across Technology, Delivery, Product and GTM perspectives
• Manage and optimize budgets, forecasting, and cost allocation to enable the delivery of key business objectives
• Advocate for analytics program and custom analytics products by creating compelling communications for Senior and Executive Management
• Build, motivate and lead direct and cross‑functional teams, leveraging trust‑based relationships to deliver an efficient operating model
• Drive a user‑centric culture of data driven, test and learn experimentation, continuously assessing and enhancing the Product user experience.

Skills

Leadership in matrix environment

Data-driven decision making

Executive communication

Product leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Mastercard in Arlington, VA seeks a visionary Vice President of Product Management for Data and Analytics to lead a global team of data scientists and analytics professionals. You will own strategy, delivery, and scale of bespoke analytics engagements and reusable assets across enterprise clients.

The role requires executive presence, strong business acumen, and the ability to drive cross‑functional programs with measurable impact on customer experience and revenues.