Our ideal candidate holds a degree in Computer Science and has been honing their craft as a software engineer for 3 to 5 years. You've also then spent at least five years leading product management efforts, with a focus on driving technical products. Just a friendly note: we're looking for Product Managers, not Project Managers. If you've worked closely with 1 to 3 engineering teams on a codebase, rather than managing multiple teams on a project, you'll be a great fit!

Previous experience working with Event-Driven Architectures or NATS (Neural Autonomic Transport System) by Synadia in any of your previous roles will be a significant plus.

In addition to your technical skills, we value superb English communication abilities. You'll be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and clients, so being able to convey ideas and solutions clearly is key. If you're someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys bringing creative solutions to the table, we'd love to meet you.

Please note that this role requires in-office collaboration three days a week, so being fully remote is not an option. We believe that working together as a team in person fosters creativity and drives success.

Lastly, we're seeking someone who can join our team within 30 days of receiving an offer. If you're excited to hit the ground running and help us continue building amazing products, we'd love to hear from you!

Overview
• Responsible for developing inspiring platform/product visions, derived from business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends
• Using the Working Backwards method, decomposes business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap
• Works with Technical Program Managers, Developers, UX designers, and internal customers to define the details behind the business requirements
• Collects and shares user stories with engineering teams
• Acts as the voice of the business customer and accountable for the platform services

Responsibilities
• Owns the working backwards document and vision for feature releases
• Identifies gaps and charters new platform capabilities as required
• Makes use of research, user studies, metrics and competitive analysis to understand the platform and business needs for a platform product
• Compares features for competitive review to inform prioritization within a platform product release
• Identifies innovations or performs test and learn experiments to create features that add more business and customer value for a platform product
• Participates with the business in customer research to inform platform product feature needs
• Contributes near-term input (quarterly) for the platform product portfolio and roadmap
• Makes trade-off decisions on platform product features
• Uses runtime metrics of their services in market as a feedback loop in to the backlog and balances the priorities against new feature requests
• Exhibits expertise within platform feature area and coordinates with interdependent teams
• Digests business customer requirements (user stories, use cases) and platform requirements for a platform feature set
• Has visibility into the design of the user experience
• Determines release goals for the platform and prioritizes assigned features according to business and platform value, adjusting throughout implementation as needed
• Continuously monitors feature development at the feature level
• Reviews product demo with the development team against acceptance criteria for the feature set
• Prepares launches and monitors platform performances, adoption, and operational health for feature sets
• Stays aligned with GTM plans for the feature set
• Identifies issues that will keep the platform features from delivering on time and/or with the desired requirements and communicates to leadership
• Supports and participates in post-launch reviews and ensures feedback is reincorporated into the feature
• Works with internal teams and customer service to identify, classify, and prioritize feature-level customer issues
• Develops and implements new metrics into measurement techniques; works with development teams to develop reports to monitor them
• Independently identifies and researches anomalous performance; escalates findings to senior management
• Coordinates internal forums to collect and identify feature-level development opportunities
• Owns and manages product documentation; enables self-service support and/or works to reduce overhead
• Identifies feature risks from business and customer feedback and in-depth analysis of operational performance; shares with senior leadership
• Establishes a network within the organization; begins to build internal and external networks
• Mentoring team members
• Assists with candidate selection and onboarding

Experiences
Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting your platform products. This includes the business requirements and associated use cases, Mastercard customer's experience, Mastercard's back office systems, the technical stack (application/service architecture), interfaces and associated data flows, dependent applications/services, runtime operations (i.e. trouble management/associated support strategies), and maintenance.
Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases
Proficient at grooming user stories, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog
Understands the technologies supporting the platform product and are able to hold your own in debates with other PM-Ts, TPMs, SDEs, and SPMs
Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them
Verbal and written communication is clear and concise
Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality

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.