Director, Product Management, Global Open Banking-R-248420

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.

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.

The Mastercard Open Banking global product team brings to life our vision of empowering consumers to benefit from their financial data. Trusted by leading organizations, our Open Banking platform enables some of the industry’s most transformative services. As a key driver of growth in this fast-expanding area, our team is shaping the future of financial connectivity by delivering new capabilities to market.

We’re seeking a collaborative and results-oriented product manager who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. You are passionate about empowering consumers, leveraging cutting-edge technologies, and delivering impactful solutions. As a natural leader and team player, you excel in building relationships and driving strategic outcomes with energy, creativity, and accountability.

As a Product Manager, you will help deliver on our Global Open Banking product strategy by identifying ways to embed Mastercard’s services and products into the Open Banking business – determining synergies, assessing services and programs, and looking at product constructs across Mastercard to realize new opportunities. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and enhance products that deliver on strategic objectives, leveraging user insights, market trends, and emerging technologies to shape our roadmap and achieve measurable outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Identify and evaluate opportunities for product and services optimization across markets, the broader Mastercard business, and at global scale.
• Engage global and regional teams including product managers, designers, engineers, compliance, and legal to deliver scalable solutions. Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, developers, and end-users to ensure alignment on priorities and expectations.
• Craft and present compelling business cases to stakeholders to secure buy-in and prioritize work within a competitive environment.
• Communicate product progress, performance, risk and opportunities to key internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency across the Mastercard business.
• Design, develop, and drive workshops, working groups and sessions to ensure alignment, capture action items, and progress against joint team initiatives.
• Stay informed on Open Banking industry trends, regulations, and the competitive landscape to refine product positioning.

Qualifications:

• Experience in product management including managing and executing complex operational product management initiatives, defining product roadmaps, documenting requirements, and defining and monitoring KPIs.
• Extensive experience working directly with partners and customers to create new products and innovate to meet customer needs.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. Works to establish priorities and clear milestones with urgency to drive the delivery of tangible outcomes.
• A problem-solver mindset with a focus on delivering value to the business and end-users.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Demonstrated success in building relationships across cross-functional teams while simultaneously working independently in fast-paced environments.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to structure tasks efficiently while managing multiple projects. A natural self-starter - analyzing complex issues, identifying opportunities, and developing actionable plans.
• Familiarity with Open Banking practices, regulations, and standards is strongly preferred.

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.