Specialist, Product Management

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 Specialist, Product Management Job Overview: Develops product strategies and roadmaps to execute to ensure maximum penetration of market segments. Manages and maintains existing product lines on an on-going basis, including partner management. Conducts opportunity assessments on new ideas and concepts. Provides design specifications for product enhancements to Product Development. Defines business and technical requirements, and manages the relationships of technical resources and the Global Technology Organization to maintain and build out platforms. Major Accountabilities: • Product Feature Delivery: Own the end-to-end delivery of prioritized product features, ensuring requirements, acceptance criteria, dependencies, and customer outcomes are clearly defined and successfully executed • Backlog Management & Prioritization: Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog by balancing customer value, business impact, technical dependencies, platform health, and engineering capacity • Agile Execution & Ceremony Ownership: Lead product participation in Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to drive alignment, decision-making, and predictable delivery • Engineering Partnership: Partner closely with engineering leaders and development teams to translate business needs into actionable requirements, resolve tradeoffs, and manage delivery risks throughout the development lifecycle. • Product Testing & Release Management: Drive feature validation, user acceptance testing readiness, release planning, and go-live execution to ensure new capabilities meet quality standards and are delivered with minimal operational risk. support product areas • Feature KPI & Success Tracking: Define, monitor, and communicate feature success metrics, adoption trends, and business outcomes, leveraging data-driven insights to inform future roadmap and investment decisions Education: • Bachelor’s degree in business or equivalent work experience Knowledge / Experience: • Experience in product management, product development, and project management Skills/ Abilities: • Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills • Strong organizational, planning and follow-up skills • Strong analytical skills desirable • Business Acumen with the ability to provide solutions that drive positive results to the customer and Mastercard