Our Purpose
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Title and Summary
Senior Data Product Manager - Technical - Finance Modernization
Mastercard Overview
Mastercard is seeking talented professionals to join our team and contribute to our mission of connecting and powering an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere. Our ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative environment, embraces challenges, and is committed to achieving excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and be part of a forward-thinking company that values creativity, dedication, and professional growth, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with Mastercard.
Role Overview
Mastercard is on a journey to modernize and advance our Finance Technology landscape. As a Senior Data Product Manager - Technical, you will leverage your background in data product management to align requirements with business objectives and enhance data-driven decision-making. You will work closely with stakeholders across the Finance Data framework lifecycle, from conceptualization to launch. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, strategic vision, and practical execution to drive enterprise-wide change in finance technology. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of finance technology and lead an impactful modernization journey. If you are passionate about driving change and delivering value in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply.
Responsibilities
As the Senior Data Product Manager - Technical, you will be responsible for the following:
Collaborate closely with technology and business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and refine data product requirements. Translate business needs into technical specifications and ensure alignment across teams.
Support the development and execution of the roadmap for data products within finance technology modernization, aligning with business goals and driving measurable business outcomes.
Decompose business requirements into user stories, feed engineering a well-groomed backlog of user stories, prioritize the backlog, and define the acceptance criteria.
Use customer feedback, business input, research, metrics, and industry analysis to inform requirements and continuously optimize the backlog. Ensure alignment with user experience design, monitor feature development, and adjust as needed during implementation.
Recommend trade-off decisions on data product features/depth of features/backlog items.
Clear communication of technical requirements to the development team and development concerns to business stakeholders. Be able to speak the language of software development and product management.
Owns and manages product documentation ensuring features and associated documentation are clear and easily consumable by other engineering teams.
Identifies issues that will keep features from delivering on time and/or with the desired requirements and works with internal teams and customer service to identify, classify, and prioritize feature-level customer issues.
Skills and Experiences
Experience in data product management within the Tech, SaaS or FinServ industry.
Demonstrated ability to understand and empathize with customer needs, backed by a track record of developing data frameworks and/or products.
Experience defining and organizing customer objectives, goals, strategies and metrics.
Experience converting customer use cases into actionable and testable backlogs, and owning prioritization.
Strong ability to decompose business requirements into user stories, feed engineering a well-groomed backlog user story, prioritize the backlog, and define the acceptance criteria.
Understands the technologies, architecture design and features that support customer jobs to be done and can contribute to technical discussions, decisions and strategy related to a product.
Experience in agile delivery methodologies.
Strong technical knowledge and capability.
High degree of initiative and self-motivation with a willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities.
Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative and organization skills.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the @type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.
In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $99,000 - $158,000 USD
Miami, Florida: $99,000 - $158,000 USD
New York City, New York: $119,000 - $190,000 USD
