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.

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Lead Product Manager- Technical

Product Management – Technical Job Description

"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."

Job Description Summary

Overview

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

Role

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

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 members

Assists with candidate selection and onboarding

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, C++, etc), 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 Cloud, Big Data, Data Science/Analytics, Microservices are a big plus

BS/MBA in related discipline

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.