Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

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

Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Agentic Commerce

Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Agentic Commerce
Locations: New York City, Purchase

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.
Overview
The Mastercard Checkout Solutions team is looking for an Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Digital Commerce to bring new products from concept to launch and commercialization. The ideal candidate will be hihgly motivated, intectually curious, analytical, and execited by the challenge of balancing the needs of many diverse stakeholders.

Our team leads Mastercard's efforts to build and scale digital payment products that enable commerce across devices, contexts, and geographies. We work with the biggest names in tech, ecommerce and financial services to leverage Mastercard's technological capabilities to solve partner business problems, create new propositions, and ensure seamless, secure and inclusive payments.
Role
The Associate Product Specialist, Product Management, Digital Commerce will be focused on creating an entirely new way for consumers to more directly engage with payment credentials wherever they are stored and used for payment across interfaces. This individual will drive components of Mastercard’s Checkout Services product suite from concept to market launch and scale across global markets. Success in this endeavor will mean delivering functionality which enables banks and wallets to extend direct visibility and control of tokenized payment credentials to cardholders across a variety of surfaces and flows, including agentic commerce.


• Support the Mastercard Virtual Card Token Program (MVCT) and help execute the strategy for pilot, go-to-market, and scaling of th eproduct. Act as the global subject matter expert for the program among your counterparts in each target region. Provide direct support as each of these teams drive product adoption among customers in their market. Build and maintain a global customer pipeline and support regional delivery teams to onboard customers.
• Refine and maintain the product roadmap, aligning with business objectives and customer needs. Help to develop and refine product value propositions that resonate with customers, balance contrasting interests among customer sets, and function across target markets / regions with different consumer-level considerations. Build enthusiasm around this value proposition among key stakeholders and work with the communications & sales teams to create corresponding sales and training materials.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, building a coalition to progress the product through the first phases of its lifecycle with a vision and objective of rapidly achieving scale. Interface regularly with internal as well as external customers and stakeholders, including card issuers, digital wallets, acquirers, and payment service providers, to ensure challenges and opportunities are fully understood and captured.
• Help define the commercialization strategy for the program, including pricing at the global and regional level, ongoing P&L, and long-term revenue projections.
· Track and analyze program performance, idenifying opportunities for improvement and drive data-driven enhancements to address customer requirements or scale customer adoption.
· Support adjacent products, and drive development of new products and features.
All About You
· Comfortable rapidly absorbing large volumes of complex business and technical knowledge. You seek out daunting intellectual challenges as a pastime.
· Demonstrate natural curiosity and proa