Director, Client Solutions and Product Architecture, Open Banking

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Title and Summary

Director, Client Solutions and Product Architecture, Open Banking

Overview: Embrace New Networks with Open Banking
With Mastercard Open Banking, we empower people and businesses to access accounts securely and conveniently for enabling new financial services and providing payment choice. This unlocks opportunities to extend financial access and inclusion with account opening, lending, payments and open banking for business.

The Director, Client Solutions and Product Architecture, Open Banking is responsible for deepening product engagement with global banks, Fintechs and digital players to prioritize key Open Banking use cases, execute joint product roadmaps and support commercialization plans for scale. The Director will partner with clients to define priorities and streamline Open Banking engagement across product lines and markets. As a new function within the Open Banking team, you will identify and build new repeatable frameworks and playbooks that help us scale our products across clients and markets while working in close partnership with Product, Solutions Engineering, Sales and Account Management teams to deliver best-in-class experiences with large global clients.


Locations are New York City, Salt Lake City or Bay Area

Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with clients to understand business needs, objectives, and prioritized use cases for Open Banking.
• Create value with innovative solutions that can help clients achieve their goals.
• Drive execution of new revenue opportunities to deliver success for clients and Mastercard.
• Grow together to establish long-term joint product roadmaps with clients.
• Inform Mastercard Open Banking product development roadmap and strategy for scale, incorporating client feedback.
• Move fast to test, learn, iterate and scale.
• Create (jointly with regions) partnerships with key strategic clients to deliver commercially viable solutions.
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure successful product development, launch, and scalability including sales, product, markets, legal and compliance, engineering, and marketing.
• Maintain a pulse on industry dynamics and competitive moves to operate as a thought leader in client engagements.

All About You
• Solid understanding of our clients’ top use cases spanning payments and lending.
• Creative problem solving that brings in different perspectives connecting client needs with Mastercard strategy.
• Deep experience in global payments and/or financial technology with understanding of open banking and the regulatory landscape.
• Ability to understand complex technology, interpret requirements and explain it simply – internally and externally.
• Proven product management or product development experience within the financial technology.
• Strong ability to execute initiatives with partners, driving for excellence in quality and timeliness.
• Emulate and drive the Mastercard Way through their behavior, coaching, and employee engagement.
• Demonstrated success at team development and management.
• Strength in connecting people and ideas; ability to operate in a matrix environment and establish effective working relationships across the business and geographies.
• Ability to communicate across teams and levels to represent the customer point of view.
• Effective listener and influencer to create build strong partnerships and deliver on client needs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

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