Title and Summary

Senior Product Manager - Technical

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.

The Mastercard Way, 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 Payment Gateway Solutions Architecture and Engineering team is looking for a new Senior Product Manager-Technical (PM-T) to drive the delivery of payment gateway solutions in a fast-paced Scaled Agile environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about both understanding the customer & the business, and working with technology teams to deliver aligned business solutions.

Role Description:

- Act as the Product Owner for your Agile development team, working closely with internal Product Managers to understand high level business needs & business requirements, and representing these back to your Agile team. * Please note this is not a client-facing role.

- Using the Working Backwards method, decomposes business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap.

- Drive the technical business and systems analysis based on product requirements to detailed solution development.

- Collaborate with your Agile development team(s) and system architects to understand the impact on gateway systems and agree the optimal functional solution for new product features.

- Take an active role in the Planning process, preparing features for the planning event and working through these features with your team to plan their delivery.

- Through team backlog grooming sessions and individual elaboration activity, define user stories that capture the functional requirements identified to meet the agreed solution.

- Take responsibility for the prioritization of the team backlog and for accepting user stories on build completion.

- Produce internal & external-facing supporting documentation using standard templates and natural language.

All about you

The ideal candidate for this position should:

- Demonstrate the ability to complete technical systems analysis and solutioning.

- Solid business analysis skills and knowledge are essential, i.e. the ability to take high level requirements and drill these down into detailed functional requirements under your own initiative

- Demonstrate the ability to collaboratively design solutions that both enhance the product offering, and work within the design principles.

- Comfortable working at a detailed level with interface specifications & doing related data mappings to and from APIs.

- Ability to work collaboratively with development and business stakeholders within an Agile team.

- Able to communicate effectively with both business & technical audiences.

- Payments experience is a plus but not essential.

- Empowerment and accountability, demonstrating independent thinking and a collaboration mindset

- Committed to deliver on time and to quality standards.

- Willingness to learn and get stuck in with a passion of curiosity.

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.