Leads technical programs for digital payment transformation and transaction authorization optimization. Responsibilities include product backlog management, requirements prioritization, project planning, product governance, operational support for AI-driven recommendations, and cross-functional delivery with engineering, data science, operations, and design teams. The role also develops product roadmaps, business cases, success metrics, and scalable integration solutions while supporting data security, compliance, architecture reviews, and stakeholder alignment.
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
Senior Technical Program Manager
Job Description: Senior Specialist, Product Development, Digital Transformation & Optimization
Overview:
Mastercard is a global technology company. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making payment and data transactions safe, simple, smart, and successful. 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.
The Digital Transformation and Optimization team is part of Core Solutions. We are responsible for optimizing eCommerce solutions and for driving transaction authorization improvement for digital transactions globally. We do this by being a consumer centric for our products and services and being relevant in all consumer money flows.
The Role:• Have good understanding of hybrid application integrations, analytical tools to measure and track customer experience, like Mixtiles, and Project management frameworks/ tools like GIT, copilot and Jira• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, developing, and bringing solutions to market that meet customer needs through supporting stories, feature management and project planning, helping to make solid product decisions and deliver value• Drive product evolution with a focus on data science, engineering and business impact by helping to maintain the product backlog, and prioritize requirements• Provide Operational support of new products where authorization recommendations are delivered from an AI engine to an Mastercard global application• Act as a Program Admin to support Mastercard product governance tools and services (Studio, Architecture Reviews, AI governance, Compliance and Data Security, etc.)• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, data science, operations, and design to deliver scalable solutions that enhance product connectivity, data flow, and performance insight• Continuously innovate and explore new approaches, tools, techniques, and technologies to solve business problems• Stay updated on emerging trends in integration technologies (e.g., AI ML model & and data analytics platforms (e.g., Thoughtspot, Power BI)
Candidates based in India only
ALL ABOUT YOU
The candidate should demonstrate:• Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in technical product management and project management• Passion for all things digital and intrinsic curiosity to understand new technology like Artificial Intelligence, Cloud solutions• Entrepreneurial spirit and global mindset with a passion for learning and using data to solve large scale business problems• Experience using project management tools like Git, Jira, Aha, etc is preferable• Excellent communication & influencing skills to work with internal and external stakeholders; ability to articulate problem statements, opportunity areas and complex data models• Excellent project management and execution skills, with strong problem solving, highly analytical, quantitative communication and organizational skills• Create and maintain material in support of product development and management: business cases, product roadmaps, success metrics, etc.• Good to have experience with Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform/Data platforms• Ability to articulate the business value of products and actively participate in sales enablement efforts• Proven success in interacting with stakeholders to understand technical needs and ensure analyses and solutions effectively meet their requirements
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:
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
Senior Technical Program Manager
Job Description: Senior Specialist, Product Development, Digital Transformation & Optimization
Overview:
Mastercard is a global technology company. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making payment and data transactions safe, simple, smart, and successful. 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.
The Digital Transformation and Optimization team is part of Core Solutions. We are responsible for optimizing eCommerce solutions and for driving transaction authorization improvement for digital transactions globally. We do this by being a consumer centric for our products and services and being relevant in all consumer money flows.
The Role:• Have good understanding of hybrid application integrations, analytical tools to measure and track customer experience, like Mixtiles, and Project management frameworks/ tools like GIT, copilot and Jira• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, developing, and bringing solutions to market that meet customer needs through supporting stories, feature management and project planning, helping to make solid product decisions and deliver value• Drive product evolution with a focus on data science, engineering and business impact by helping to maintain the product backlog, and prioritize requirements• Provide Operational support of new products where authorization recommendations are delivered from an AI engine to an Mastercard global application• Act as a Program Admin to support Mastercard product governance tools and services (Studio, Architecture Reviews, AI governance, Compliance and Data Security, etc.)• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, data science, operations, and design to deliver scalable solutions that enhance product connectivity, data flow, and performance insight• Continuously innovate and explore new approaches, tools, techniques, and technologies to solve business problems• Stay updated on emerging trends in integration technologies (e.g., AI ML model & and data analytics platforms (e.g., Thoughtspot, Power BI)
Candidates based in India only
ALL ABOUT YOU
The candidate should demonstrate:• Must have a minimum of 5 years of experience in technical product management and project management• Passion for all things digital and intrinsic curiosity to understand new technology like Artificial Intelligence, Cloud solutions• Entrepreneurial spirit and global mindset with a passion for learning and using data to solve large scale business problems• Experience using project management tools like Git, Jira, Aha, etc is preferable• Excellent communication & influencing skills to work with internal and external stakeholders; ability to articulate problem statements, opportunity areas and complex data models• Excellent project management and execution skills, with strong problem solving, highly analytical, quantitative communication and organizational skills• Create and maintain material in support of product development and management: business cases, product roadmaps, success metrics, etc.• Good to have experience with Enterprise Business Intelligence Platform/Data platforms• Ability to articulate the business value of products and actively participate in sales enablement efforts• Proven success in interacting with stakeholders to understand technical needs and ensure analyses and solutions effectively meet their requirements
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.
Mastercard Gurugram, Haryana, IND Office
Mastercard Gurugram, India Office
Mehrauli Gurgaon Road, Gurugram, Gurugram, India, 122002
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