Mastercard is Looking for Manager Product Development Full Time

Our Purpose
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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.
Job Title
Manager – Product Development
The Global Prepaid Product Development team drives the Company’s new product development for prepaid solutions. The team manages multiple platforms, which enable innovative use cases that push the boundaries of the prepaid industry for both traditional and non-traditional clients. The Manager, Product Development will assume strategic and tactical tasks related to the ongoing development of these platforms.
Role:
. Own up Product roadmap items from ideation to execution
. Work with the Engineering team to help define and elaborate epics, features and user stories
. Manage prioritisation of the product backlog to be continually aligned to business value
. Coordinate with cross-functional teams of architects, business analysts and engineers within the Product and Engineering division, ensuring timeliness and quality of product releases across the Software Development Lifecycle
. Act as a Product Owner for two (2) scrum teams, following SAFe practices and principles
. Own the process for going from Technical Readiness to Product Readiness, ensuring the required due diligence and business processes are in place before delivering capabilities to customers
. Responsible for requirement gathering, backlog maintaining and running sprints as per SAFe agile processes
. Conduct product demos, provide product acceptance
. Act as the platform expert, supporting technical discussions with internal stakeholders and external clients
. Support the integration of external providers into the platform
All About You:
. B.E. /B.Tech. required, M.B.A preferred
. Familiarity with the payments ecosystem, with prepaid and/or FinTech industry knowledge/experience
. Strong experience in a dynamic product management role
. Excellent ability to communicate complex ideas and solutions to both business and technical audiences
. Experience in the SAFe/Agile software development lifecycle methodology
. Partner with architects, engineering teams, and enterprise architecture on key technical decisions and solution design
. Experience in working and interacting with client facing, technology team and project management teams
. A strong desire to be a life-long learner, exploring new things and ways of thinking
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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