Manager, Product Management

<p><span><b>Our Purpose</b></span></p><p></p><p>Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build <span>a sustainable economy</span> where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making <span>transactions secure,</span> 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.</p><p></p><p><b>Title and Summary</b></p><h3></h3><p></p>Manager, Product Management<h3></h3><p></p>Overview:<br/>Who is Mastercard?<br/>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.<br/>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.<br/><br/>Join us in unlocking infinite opportunity in Mastercard’s Commercial New Payment Flows (CNPF) organization.<br/> <br/>In CNPF, we empower our customer’s businesses to succeed through innovative, trusted payment solutions that deliver a seamless digital-first experience around the world. We are disrupting the industry by developing world-class travel and B2B solutions for our corporate clients around the globe. <br/><br/>The Commercial VCN (Virtual Card Number) payments platform provides Issuers and their Corporates the ability to generate Virtual Cards against Real Cards for commercial spending. It is a highly scalable and customizable solution which addresses cardholder security concerns.<br/><br/>Role<br/>The role is a Manager – Product management reporting to the Director of Product Management.<br/><br/>Overview<br/>• Acts as a business owner and manages long-term and short-term strategic initiatives for a commercialized product.<br/>• Roles in this family oversee product evolution, establish go-to-market strategy, optimize products and resources, implement incremental improvements within the product’s life cycle, conduct ongoing care and maintenance, and manage P&amp;L.<br/><br/>Responsibilities<br/>• Drive tangible data-driven business outcomes at the product level, manage to a quantified scorecard continuously monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators and optimizing product performance <br/>• Interpret and apply program vision and strategy to product strategy and roadmap for the Products they manage, clearly communicating it to key stakeholders on an ongoing basis<br/>• Leverage the Mastercard “Studio” framework to manage the delivery of ongoing innovation and enhancements to focus Products<br/>• Drive a user-centric culture of data driven, test and learn experimentation, continuously assessing and enhancing the Product user experience. Partner with Delivery and Servicing teams (GCC, CTS, Biz Ops) to ensure that Products are easy to deploy and deliver a great experience during operation<br/>• Demonstrate depth of knowledge of their Product and the ecosystem in which it operates (e.g. regulatory, legal, technology, competitive environment). Apply this knowledge to the development of winning Product strategies<br/>• Demonstrate awareness of Mastercard's broader Product offering and the ability to leverage Products from other business areas to augment Product capabilities<br/>• Understand the Software Development Lifecycle and manage any barriers or obstacles to deliver capabilities on time and budget<br/>• Work closely with engineering to prioritize features vs modernization / resiliency items<br/>• Understand technical aspects of product ownership to drive conversations and trade offs<br/>• Leverage data to quickly identify Product performance challenges, creating proactive plans to drive usage and revenues. Use data-driven analysis to prioritize resources to deliver against the plan<br/>• Ensure that the broader Mastercard organization is enabled to sell focus Products by creating compelling communications &amp; marketing content in partnership with Marketing<br/>• Lead cross-functional teams in the development of business requirements to achieve Product objectives<br/>• Partner with the Guilds to create and share best practices within the Program with a focus on driving continuous improvement in the Program’s operating model <br/>• Provide regular coaching and feedback to direct reports and partners to grow individual functional skills, experience and leadership capabilities<br/>• Drive institutionalized knowledge through the