Manager, Product Management - A2A Payment Solutions (Open Finance)

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

Manager, Product Management - A2A Payment Solutions (Open Finance)

About the Team:

This Product team is part of Mastercard’s Open Finance division and brings to life our vision of empowering consumers to benefit from their own financial data. We are passionate about creating solutions that unlock FinTech innovation and streamline everyday consumer experiences. Many leading organizations are already using the Mastercard Open Finance platform to deliver some of the industry’s most compelling services. Open Finance is a fast-growing area of Mastercard's business, and this team is a key driver of new capabilities and a very exciting place to work!

About You

We are looking for a highly energetic product professional who is excited to hit the ground running. You are collaborative, accountable, and passionate about being part of a highly valued team. You are energized by bringing ideas to live and love living in the 0-1 strategic innovation / new product development space. While our primary roles are well defined (i.e. building new products and enhancing our existing solutions), we are all jumping in to help deliver on exciting strategic business objectives for Mastercard, which means partnering with sales and growth teams to take our products to market at scale and engaging with design to ensure the best possible customer experience, to name a few.

The Role:

When consumers are empowered to use their data, it creates a platform for innovation. This is the promise of open banking. The Product Manager has overall responsibility for the product strategy and roadmap for a payments solution. This includes gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. You will bring engineering, user experience design, and best of breed technologies together and play a critical role in leading our product through needs analysis, iterative implementation of solutions, and measuring impact of those solutions as we deliver on our ambitious vision! If you enjoy leading from the center of the action—this role positions you as the quarterback.

In the product manager role, you will:

• Define the strategy and roadmap for innovative Payment Solutions
• Communicate the product vision within the company, including executive leadership
• Define new products (go 0-1) and drive critical enhancements to existing products, setting priorities for product development
• Create user stories and provide clarity on business requirements
• Conduct in-depth competitive analysis and become an expert on competing products and fintech organizations
• Meet with clients to understand their product needs
• Understand the market well enough to create a pricing strategy that meets revenue and profitability goals
• Work with product marketing to create product messaging and collateral
• Brief and train the sales force on products at sales meetings and perform product demos for customers
• Evaluate competitors and the market for capability-oriented and emerging development and technology trends

All About You:

• Experience as a product manager with demonstrated success defining and launching cloud-based software products, preferably in the fintech space
• Demonstrated success with 0-1 product launches, preferably in the fintech space
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present to large and small groups
• Proven ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams without formal authority, including engineering teams working within an Agile/Scrum framework
• Strong technical background with a working knowledge of at least one server-side programming language; familiarity or experience with HTML/CSS and Javascript is preferred
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, JIRA) preferred.

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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

Purchase, New York: $150,000 - $254,000 USD