Senior 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.

Title and Summary

Senior Product Manager - Technical

Who is Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible.
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.
Overview
The Cryptographic Security Engineering program designs, builds and supports service platforms that provide cryptographic, key management and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams.
The candidate must be able to obtain a deep technical understanding of the applications/systems that they are working on and must be willing to dig in and ask challenging questions to solutions address our customers' needs.
Candidates should have a strong interest in Cryptographic Security and demonstrate strong technical leadership and ability to engage in out-of-the-box problem solving.
The role - what we expect you to do day to day
• Be customer obsessed: Develop & provide the organization with a deep appreciation for customer needs, the ecosystem and the key market dynamics.
• Systems analysis and design: gain in-depth understanding of the product platform and ecosystem around it. Prepare functional artefacts for Engineering covering data flows, sequence diagrams, API and other interface specifications
• Work management: define roadmap to support the delivery of objectives. Turn system designs into features and stories that can be actioned by Engineering
• Lead story elaboration, including creation of detailed, comprehensive acceptance criteria
• Provide technical analysis of application software to ensure that business and functional requirements can be met
• Manage strategic alignment across teams: working with stakeholders, ensure backlogs are properly prioritized and refined according to anticipated business value & measurable outcomes
• Agile Mindset: advocate for taking an agile approach to product development through all activities from defining an epic to writing acceptance criteria on a user story
• Measure outcomes & seek continuous improvements: Evaluate & seek to improve existing practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize
All About You and What you need to bring:
• Several years of product management or technical product development and experience shipping high-quality products. Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases
• Excellent analysis and design skills is a must. Can research customer problem domain and systems. Can product impactful product content and functional design artefacts.
• Experience in Lean Product management and Lean management principles is a plus.
• Experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), with some basic knowledge of modern DevOps.
• Track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment and customer integration.
• Proficient at backlog management and prioritization.
• Data driven - ability to define measurable and SMART leading and lagging metrics
• Thrives in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts globally. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
• Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of cryptography is a plus

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $104,000 - $177,000 USD