Lead Product Manager Technical

Lead 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.

Responsibilities:

• The role sits in Payment Networks Organization, responsible for business-critical activities like authorization, switching, clearing etc.
• This role will be working across a broad range of cross-functional teams to drive the gRPC and Event Driven Application strategy for Payment Networks
• Drive product vision, strategies and roadmaps in alignment with broader organizational strategies and goals
• Lead and motivate a team of engineers and other cross-functional representatives towards the product vision.
• Define, establish, and continually refine a domain product vision & objectives, establish a product charter, and create and maintain a domain roadmap
• Working with product owners with each scrum team, ensure backlogs are properly prioritized and refined according to anticipated business value & measurable outcomes
• Lead the design and build of the product with engineering
• Measure outcomes & seek continuous improvements: Evaluate & seek to improve existing practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize.
• Evangelize and build stakeholder goodwill through regular communications and soliciting feedback.
• 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.

All About You:
Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 5 years technical product management or related industry experience
• Bachelor's degree (or foreign degree equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information

Systems, or a related field.

• Proven communication skills
• Experience working in a technical environment with a broad, cross functional team to drive

product vision, define product requirements, coordinate resources from other groups and guide
the team through key milestones

• Experience navigating through the full product life-cycle, integrating stakeholder feedback into

product requirements, driving prioritization, and pre/post-launch execution

• Good understanding of system/ application architectures and how various product or

architectural choices interplay
Preferred Skills/Qualifications:

• 2 years' Experience in gRPC and Event Driven Architecture.
• Knowledge of Credit Card/Payment Systems.
• Experience presenting to executive audiences.

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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.

• 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more. O'Fallon, Missouri: $119,000 - $190,000 USD