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 Development

OVERVIEW:

This is a fast moving challenging role within the Nextgen Network which spans across Transaction Switching, New Network products, Clearing Enhancements.

We are looking for dynamic people who can juggle multiple balls in the air, work across programs both internal and external driving towards a specific end objective. Should be able to step into a very fast moving and continuosly changing landscape which impacts across Mastercard, forge partnerships and getting things done.

ROLE:
Drives execution of an outcome from inception through successful delivery of the services or domains, or an outcome that spans multiple teams and integrations across the enterprise

• Works with multiple scrum/delivery teams to elaborate functional requirements

• Create strategic and meaningful business requirement/

• Looks across the program to identify potential system efficiencies or process improvements, and suggests proactive strategies for consideration by program leadership

• Clearly articulate scope, timelines, dependencies, owners, actions, risks, and mitigations. Report progress to teams and senior leadership in regular cadence, potentially representing segments of or the entire program

• Looked to as first point of contact for your teams or business line/service and the source of truth for status, providing the correct information and associated data about the state of the project to the right audience at the right time with the right focus

• Understands the business strategy and design approaches within product, program, or domain with depth to be credible and influential with teams they work with

ALL ABOUT YOU:

Experience operating autonomously across multiple teams, demonstrated critical thinking, and thought leadership

• Experience in building large scale enterprise technical or engineering programs and products from inception to delivery and experience articulating the impact using metrics.

• Help customers and the engineering teams make trade-off decisions by considering all data including business goals, technical platform strategy, customer experience and maintainability. You identify blocking issues and manage their resolution.

• Proven track record of data-driven decision making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across teams

• Demonstrated experience building relationships, partnering with and influencing dependent teams while commanding the respect of the individuals you work with across the organization

• 3 - 5 years of payments industry and/or financial services experience , Experience needed in payments and processing card payments..

• Support product launches and implementations

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience desirable

Work Conditions: Hybrid

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.