Our PurposeMastercard 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 SummaryDirector, Product ManagementOverview Mastercard Identity, within the Security Solutions organization, develops innovative products and services that enable trusted digital interactions across commerce, payments, financial services, government, and emerging digital ecosystems. We are seeking a Director, Product Development, to help shape and deliver the next generation of Mastercard's Digital Identity solutions. This individual will be responsible for identifying market opportunities, defining product requirements, influencing product strategy, and driving execution across a rapidly evolving digital identity landscape. The role requires a deep understanding of digital identity technologies, ecosystem dynamics, emerging industry standards, and customer needs. The successful candidate will work across a highly matrixed global organization and serve as a trusted thought partner to engineering, commercialization, legal, security, regional, and executive stakeholders. Role Product Strategy & Development - Identify emerging customer needs, market opportunities, and industry trends that can shape future product investments. - Digital Identity Subject Matter Expertise - Serve as an expert in digital identity and trusted digital interactions. - Maintain deep knowledge of digital identity technologies, credential ecosystems, trust frameworks, digital wallets, authentication, authorization, and identity verification capabilities. - Understand developments across standards bodies, industry alliances, technology providers, competitors, and emerging market models. - Evaluate industry developments and their potential impact on Mastercard's product strategy, customer opportunities, and long-term positioning. - Support internal thought leadership on the evolution of digital identity and trust ecosystems. Engage with the broader digital identity community to understand market needs, technology trends, and emerging opportunities. - Assess partnership opportunities and ecosystem developments that could accelerate product growth and innovation. - Product Performance & Market Success - Define and monitor key performance indicators, adoption metrics, customer outcomes, and product success measures. - Gather customer feedback, market insights, and competitive intelligence to inform roadmap evolution. - Develop recommendations to improve product performance, customer adoption, and commercial outcomes. - Support investment decisions and prioritization discussions through data-driven analysis and business case development. Build alignment among engineering, commercialization, legal, compliance, security, privacy, regional, and executive stakeholders. - All About You Required Experience - Significant experience in Product Management, Product Development or related disciplines. - Experience working within digital identity, authentication, cybersecurity, payments, fintech, digital trust, fraud, or adjacent technology sectors. - Strong commercial mindset with experience evaluating market opportunities and customer needs. - Preferred Expertise - Deep expertise in digital identity ecosystems and market participants. - Digital wallets • Reusable identity • Digital credentials • Credential lifecycle management • Identity verification • Identity standards and protocols • Trust frameworks • Merchant-facing services, acceptance ecosystems, or customer-facing digital experiences - Ability to think across the broader ecosystem, including issuers, merchants, financial institutions, digital wallets, trust service providers, and identity providers. - Demonstrated ability to translate industry expertise and emerging market trends into scalable products and solutions within complex, highly matrixed organizations - Understanding privacy, security, and regulatory considerations that influence digital identity solutions globally. Skills - Exceptional product management and strategic thinking skills. - Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills. - Education - Bachelor's degree, or significant related industry experience is required. - Advanced degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, , Computer Science, or related field preferred.Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll 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;Full time
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