Senior Specialist, Product Development

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

Senior Specialist, Product Development

Overview

Are you a product manager who wants to work for a company that offers above and beyond benefits, including paid parental leave, flexible work hours, gift matching, and even volunteer incentives? Do you want to work in an inclusive and nurturing culture that encourages your own professional learning and development?

At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force of good in the world. We do well by doing good. Our core values of trust, partnership, agility, and thoughtful risk-taking are displayed in everything we do. Our culture of collaboration and inclusion makes our company a place where the best people choose to be. Come join us!

Mastercard Developers is the single gateway for Mastercard partners to access a diverse range of payment, data, loyalty, and security APIs. The team is responsible for delivering an experience that ensures developers can quickly find the right API, assess its technical capabilities, and integrate it into new and innovative solutions.

Role

We are looking for a product manager to join our team and help us build towards the future. Our Product Managers (PMs) conceptualize, rationalize, and drive the rollout of new capabilities across multiple teams. In this role, you will contribute to the commercialization of our developer platform, Mastercard Developers. You will work with our internal and external customers to bring new features and functionality to life and contribute to the platform strategy, design choices and roadmap.

Major Responsibilities:

Own our market research for the platform and specific features, aggregating common themes and trends to the broader team

Work with our Portfolio Management team to decompose business requirements from API teams into features to improve customer onboarding and grow our API customer base

Coordinate internal and external communications for major features releases

Manage and create content for our API platform internal documentation ensuring features and associated documentation are clear and easily consumable by other teams

All About You

3-5 years of direct product leadership, including roadmap ownership, prioritization, and go-to-market planning

Advanced skills in analysis, requirement gathering, documentation writing

Strong communication skills, attention to detail and ability to function independently with competing demands

Strong technical knowledge and capabilities, basic HTML/CSS is a plus

Experience working with data and developing preliminary product enhancement recommendations, using SQL is a plus

Self-starter and willing to take on challenging opportunities

Has demonstrated consistent success working with partners across other functions in support of a product’s go-to market strategies

Strong track record of contribution to identification of innovative product features by drawing insights from competitor market data

Huge plus if you have expertise in working with two-sided marketplaces and API based products

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.