Manager, Product Management

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

Manager, Product Management

Overview:
Who 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.
Mastercard is seeking a methodical and seasoned ‘’Product Manager’’ to join the Services program based in Prague working alongside the Director, Product Management team and TPM’s you shall create and deliver a growing Product feature set roadmap as part of our Services program, as outlined below.
SpendingPulse™ is a SaaS Platform that provides a macroeconomic indicator of retail sales based on actual, near real-time spend data across various sectors in 19 countries.It’s one of the only data sources on the market that provides daily online and in-store sales estimates and forecasts at the national, regional and local level.
Role:
• In conjunction with the Product Director – create and refine the mid to long term ‘’new features/products’’ roadmap.
• Document and obtain all necessary departmental signoffs for new products via our internal ‘’studio’’ process.
• In conjunction with the engineering, Analytical and front-end teams – deliver market fit MVP’s and feature sets against the Quarterly and half year roadmap.
• Work cross functionally to unpack and refine requirements behind stakeholder requests
• Work with European/ APAC leads and stakeholders to ensure fit for market solutioning.
• Collect, groom, create and prioritize stakeholder requests with engineering teams.
• Define acceptance criteria & work cross functionally to ensure fit for market deployment.
• Identify and resolve blockers keeping releases from shipping on time and/or with the desired requirements.
• Participate in post-launch reviews & incorporates feedback going forward.
• Own and manage product documentation within confluence ensuring features and associated documentation is concise and easily consumable by others.
• Work in conjunction and support the US Product Manager with BAU & escalations.
• Support the Agile ceremonies along with the TPM.
About you:
• Must have: Direct experience of working closely with engineering teams and delivering scalable solutions and new product feature sets on agreed timelines.
• Must have: Direct experience of delivering new features within complex organizations.
• Must have: High level of ownership and accountability.
• Must have: Verbal, written and presentation communication is clear and concise.
• Ideally: Have direct experience working with a data product platform.

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.