Senior Specialist, Product Management - Business Intelligence, Innovate (Sandbox as a Service)

• Reporting to lead of Business Intelligence Innovate products -- and focused specifically on the Sandbox as a Service product
• In this role, you will be a key member of a highly agile team, working to build and deploy new platforms in market.
• This is an opportunity to become part of a world class team, dynamically solving real world customer problems.

Role

The role will lead initiatives to support the growth and scalability of the Business Intelligence Innovate product - Sandbox as a Service globally.
• Identification and prioritization of global fintechs to be onboarded into the Sandbox environment
• Relationship management and coordination with global fintechs to get their solutions onboarded within the Sandbox environment
• Execution of services including fintech onboarding, integrations and maintenance within the Sandbox environment
• Engagement with technical vendor for the Sandbox to identify issues with the platform and coordinating key updates
• Support execution of global fintech Hackathons to identify and showcase new solutions to an internal and external audience
• Support product roadmap implementation activities with the global Product Management team
• Support new products' Concept and Market Test phases with competitive analysis, researches, ideas, run regional client forum and feedbacks
• Support sales team as product specialists, providing sales enablement materials/trainings and support when needed
• Consolidate product feedback received by markets (or by customer success managers) and provide product improvement recommendations
• Support product new launch across different regions: prepare the product for the launch, support product awareness, identify users target and support technical onboarding

Ask yourself:
• Demonstrated experience in delivering digital and technical solutions and services.
• Demonstrated experience working with 3rd party vendors and assessing same
• Connection to the fintech community and "startup world" a distinct advantage
• Executive-level presentation skills-must have persuasive "presence" and ability to effectively communicate technology to business people and business to technology people.
• Understanding / experience of innovation frameworks and practical technology application experience. Payments technology knowledge or experience in the industry would be an advantage.
• Leadership skills-must be able to influence others and navigate complex relationship scenarios & must be able to influence others without direct reporting relationships.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Willingness to travel internationally

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.