Epic Owner at Mastercard

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

Epic Owner

Epic Owner

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.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, 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.

Mission First, People Always

As Corporate Security, we are responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats, and it is our people on the frontlines who make this happen every day.
By taking care of our people, their wellbeing, and career development, we provide them the necessary tools and environment to ensure the success of our mission.

• Role/Responsibilities
• Epic Definition & Business Case Development
• Define Epics clearly in line with strategic objectives, including scope, objectives, success criteria, and expected benefits. Develop and maintain Lean Business Cases to support investment decisions and portfolio prioritisation.
• Stakeholder & Customer Engagement
• Liaise closely with customers, business stakeholders, and delivery teams to capture requirements, validate value assumptions, and ensure alignment throughout the Epic lifecycle.
• Portfolio Prioritisation
• Collaborate with portfolio and senior leadership forums to prioritise Epics based on strategic alignment, value, risk, capacity, and financial return.
• Epic Decomposition & Delivery Enablement
• Refines Epics into meaningful Features and work with Product Managers, Product Owners, and delivery teams to enable effective planning and execution.
• Progress Monitoring & Governance
• Track Epic progress against scope, milestones, benefits, and financial forecasts. Ensure adherence to agreed quality standards, governance checkpoints, and gating processes.
• MVP Evaluation & Value Realisation
• Define and evaluate Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), assessing outcomes against hypotheses and business objectives. Support decisions on pivoting, scaling, or stopping investment.
• Quality & Standards Assurance
• Ensure Epics meet organisational quality, risk, and compliance standards, following defined assurance and gating processes throughout the lifecycle.

All about you
The Epic Owner is accountable for defining, shaping, and delivering strategic Epics from concept through to value realization. The role ensures that Epics are aligned to business strategy, prioritised effectively within the portfolio, delivered to agreed quality standards, and realise measurable customer and financial outcomes.

Corporate Security Responsibility:

Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.