Lead Technical Product Manager, Open Finance Connectivity-2

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 Technical Product Manager, Open Finance Connectivity-2

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company focused on enabling safe, simple, smart, and accessible payment and data transactions for all. Through secure networks, partnerships, and innovation, we support individuals, institutions, governments, and businesses in reaching their full potential. Guided by our decency quotient (DQ), we operate in over 210 countries and territories, promoting an inclusive digital economy and sustainability worldwide.

Empowering Consumers and Businesses to harness the power of their data through Open Finance 

At Mastercard, we are partnering across the global financial ecosystem to enable innovative use cases powered by Open Finance. By securely connecting consumers and businesses to access financial data, we are powering innovative, new, and improved experiences that make a positive impact. Our network helps us scale our services, differentiate our solutions, and the ecosystem benefits from smarter, more secure, and more personal commerce that is fit for a changing world. 

Open Finance Connectivity

In this role, you will own Mastercard’s Open Banking connectivity across a portfolio of European countries and act as a connectivity lead and subject‑matter expert. You will combine deep technical understanding with strong product judgment, working hands‑on with engineering, banks, and internal stakeholders to drive connectivity quality, scalability, and innovation.
You will join a team that blends the agility of a fintech scale‑up with the scale and resources of a global technology company.

Responsibilities

Own Mastercard’s Open Banking connectivity across a portfolio of few European countries, covering all banks within those markets.

Manage and prioritise the connectivity roadmap on those markets, including new bank integrations, new or enhanced API endpoints, mandated bank changes, and defect resolution driven by internal testing or client‑reported issues.

Perform deep, end‑to‑end analysis of bank connections, including bank‑specific behaviours, API nuances, and data normalisation. Proactively use logs, traces, metrics, and error patterns to identify gaps, diagnose issues, and drive resolution in collaboration with Engineering.

Partner closely with Engineering teams to shape solutions, ensure timely delivery of new capabilities, and uphold quality standards—leading through expertise, data, and clear problem framing rather than formal authority.

Identify and evaluate new Open Finance or commercial APIs exposed by banks, and collaborate with Engineering to assess feasibility, value, and integration approach.

Act as a subject‑matter expert for connectivity topics across the organisation, supporting Product, Engineering, Sales, Client Delivery, and other stakeholders with clear guidance and insight.

Build and maintain direct relationships with banks and ecosystem partners to accelerate troubleshooting, clarify specifications, and anticipate upcoming changes.

Continuously identify and propose improvements to connectivity product management practices, tooling, testing approaches, and operational workflows.

Lead cross‑market connectivity initiatives with impact across all supported European markets, driving consistency, quality improvements, and scalable solutions beyond individual country scope.

All About You

Bachelor's degree is required; an analytical or technical degree from a top-tier institution is preferred

Extensive experience in product development and/or product management is essential.

Thorough understanding of APIs, Open Banking, Open Finance, developer ecosystems, and financial services is expected.

Outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities, coupled with strong business acumen; adept at identifying key issues and navigating ambiguity effectively.

Strong collaboration across teams and outcomes's influence through clarity, expertise, and good communication.

Expertise in structuring complex or ambiguous challenges and translating them into actionable steps.

Demonstrated experience operating as a senior individual contributor or lead, owning complex domains end‑to‑end and influencing outcomes across teams without formal authority.

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.