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

Product Management Associate Product Specialist, Launch Graduate Program 2026 - Prague, Czech Republic

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company behind the world’s fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Make an impact as an Associate Product Specialist:

You will have the chance to learn how to develop business cases for new product opportunities, develop scalable customer-centric products, and see those projects through to go-to-market. When joining one of our highly collaborative product teams, you will have the opportunity to build and manage great products. We are looking for passionate and talented professionals, who share our vision for developing scalable customer-centric products with agility and excellence.

As an Associate Product Specialist, you may:

• Identify and measure product and business metrics to increase adoption and understand customers’ ongoing needs
• Conduct iterative experiments to identify and prioritise key features for inclusion with product releases and product roadmap
• Assist customers to resolve operational issues that have been escalated
• Project management of strategic initiatives

All About You:

To be available to start from 1st September 2026
To be a Final Year Undergraduate/Masters students or to have graduated no earlier than September 2025
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Excel, PPT)
High energy level; flexible, adaptive and strong collaborator
Well planned, organized & structured to manage time & work effectively

Application Process

First step, submit your application
If you are eligible, you will receive an invitation for a digital interview; this includes answering pre-recorded interview questions
If you are recommended to advance, you will receive an invitation for final round interview(s); you will have the opportunity to meet with us virtually to learn more about our business and culture

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.