Senior 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

Senior Specialist, Product Management

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. 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
Mastercard’s US Open Banking product team is looking for a Senior Specialist to help us execute our product roadmap for our lending solutions. The ideal candidate is passionate about product development and technology, is highly motivated, intellectually curious, and good at bringing people together to solve problems.

Role
In this client-facing position, you will:
• Be a Product Owner for an agile product development team of software engineers that build and maintain API based data products
• Write user stories for product initiatives
• Manage the product backlog and coordinate with product managers and stakeholders to prioritize the work for the development team
• Coordinate with the development team to resolve product related blockers and help them be successful
• Monitor key product performance metrics and help identify opportunity areas
• Support the product team with miscellaneous items that may include product analysis tasks or project management

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Have experience working with technical teams or stakeholders (engineering experience is not required)
• Understand agile development frameworks like Scrum and SAFe
• Foster intellectual curiosity and be willing to step up even in unfamiliar situations
• Willingness to solicit, receive, consider and apply constructive feedback
• Be able to communicate succinctly and clearly
• Contribute to the vision and product roadmap
• Enjoy problem solving
• Good at working with people and bringing teams together

Additional desirable, but not required attributes:
• Experience working as a Product Owner for an agile development team
• Experience working with API based products
• Understanding of the fintech and/or open banking/open finance market
• Understanding of the lending market and/or consumer data verification products
• SQL or other database or metrics tracking experience

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 [email protected] 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 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.

Pay Ranges

Salt Lake City, Utah: $99,000 - $158,000 USD