Director, Product Development in London

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.

Mastercard Foundry is a global innovation group focused on the evolution of technology and consumer trends and the implication of these forces on the payments and commerce industry. Foundry is a collective of interdisciplinary teams powering Mastercard's ability to create and deliver differentiated products, services, and experiences. Within the Foundry, the Mastercard Experience Centres (MECs) is a program that engages with customers to demonstrate Mastercard's solution offerings. The MECs are interactive and immersive spaces designed for our customers and partners to understand the breadth of our brand, explore innovative solutions, and unlock new growth and partnership opportunities. Our platform enables customers to explore digital commerce capabilities relevant to their evolving needs at seven global in-person locations and through remote-hosted customer sessions.

The primary remit of this role is to lead onsite management of the MEC, ensuring global consistency in the end-to-end customer experience. The candidate will be responsible for developing and presenting content across a broad range of subjects, including digital payments, emerging technology, consumer behaviours, cyber security, data technologies, and next-gen experiences.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Being the principal Mastercard ambassador managing the regional MEC end-to-end visitor journey and operation, collaborating cross-functionally at a global and regional level.
• Hosting a variety of stakeholders and interacting across Mastercard to ensure internal and external customer satisfaction.
• Partnering with teams in the Foundry, regional innovation leads, product and R&D, communications, marketing, and account to prioritize product demos and maintain technical requirements to deliver an optimal experience to customers and stakeholders.
• Producing custom presentations to articulate Mastercard's leadership position in payments/Fintech, inclusive growth, cybersecurity, data services, and innovation through thought leadership and content strategy.

The right person for this position will demonstrate a high level of creative problem-solving, a strong personal presence, the ability to manage change, thrive under pressure, a focus on execution, detail orientation, and organization.

Responsibilities include:

• Managing the day-to-day operations of the Experience Centre, ensuring all equipment and the overall physical space is running optimally.
• Curating and hosting customers, policymakers, media, and special events.
• Delivering presentations on emerging tech, payment, and commerce trends.
• Partnering with regional innovation teams to distribute thought-leadership narratives.
• Gathering and measuring visitor insights and capturing evolving customer needs and market learnings.
• Coordinating with regional account & sales teams.
• Taking a consultative approach and hosting workshops with clients.
• Managing experiential activations for special events.
• Gaining a complete understanding of all MEC features and capabilities and the potential impact on key stakeholders, including customers and partners.

All About You:

• 10+ years of experience in consultative sales, business development, and strategic communications.
• Exceptional storytelling skills and demonstrated ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and compellingly, excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a portfolio of writing experience.
• Superior relationship-building skills.
• Design thinking trained and able to facilitate workshops desired.
• Able to work collaboratively.
• Business and outcome-focused.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Self-motivated with a track record of delivering success while operating within a fast-paced, team environment.

Corporate Security Responsibility: All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization. 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; complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.