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Our Purpose
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.
Title and Summary
Lead Product Manager-Technical OverviewWho is Mastercard?
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.
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.
Core Payments' Transaction Stream (TS) powers Mastercard's real‑time, high‑volume switching across global markets. As a Lead Product Manager – Technical , you will define product vision, drive network‑critical feature delivery, strengthen authorization and clearing accuracy, and ensure reliability in a deeply technical based environment.
This role combines platform product leadership, technical depth, and cross‑functional execution.
Role
Own the feature template document and vision for feature releases.
Identify platform gaps and charter new platform capabilities as needed.
Leverage research, user studies, metrics to understand platform and business needs.
Compare competitive features to inform prioritization and release scope.
Make trade‑off decisions on platform features balancing technical, operational, and business constraints.
Use runtime metrics as a feedback loop to refine backlog priorities and drive iterative improvement.
Demonstrate expertise in the platform feature area and align with interdependent teams across Core Payments.
Translate business needs into user stories, use cases, and platform requirements for feature sets.
Set release goals, prioritize features based on value, and adjust scope during implementation as needed.
Monitor feature development continuously at the feature level.
Review engineering demos against acceptance criteria for assigned features.
.Align with GTM plans for features and upcoming releases.
Identify risks or obstacles to delivery and escalate proactively to leadership.
Partner with internal teams and customer service to classify and prioritize feature‑level customer issues.
Develop new operational metrics, partner with engineering to build dashboards/reports, and monitor performance.
Coordinate internal forums to gather platform and feature development opportunities.
Own and maintain product documentation, enabling self‑service and reducing operational overhead.
Build a strong internal network and begin establishing external connections as needed.
Mentor team members and contribute to talent development.
Support candidate selection and onboarding for new PMT hires.
All About You
7+ years in product management, including 4+ years in payments switching, clearing, network processing, or comparable low‑latency transactional systems.
Strong understanding of ISO 8583 and and issuer/acquirer message flows.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Technical fluency in distributed systems, resiliency patterns and service reliability
Demonstrated ability to drive cross‑functional decision‑making and influence engineering, operations, and business teams.
Corporate Security Responsibility
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.
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