Mastercard
Lead Product Manager - Technical
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Overview The Cryptographic Security Engineering team designs, builds, and supports service platforms that provide cryptographic, key management, and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams. The candidate must be able to obtain a deep technical understanding of the applications/systems that they are working on and must be willing to dig in and ask challenging questions to make sure that plans are executed efficiently. Candidates should have a strong interest in Cryptographic Security and demonstrate strong technical leadership and ability to engage in out-of-the-box problem solving. The Role
What We Expect You To Do Day To Day Be customer obsessed: develop and provide the organization with a deep appreciation for customer needs, the ecosystem, and the key market dynamics Set the vision: define, establish, and continually refine a domain product vision & objectives, establish a product charter, and create and maintain a domain roadmap Define requirements: translate product requirements into clearly defined epics, features, and stories with clear and measurable outcomes, ensuring mutual understanding Manage strategic alignment across teams: working with stakeholders, ensure backlogs are properly prioritized and refined according to anticipated business value and measurable outcomes Agile Mindset: advocate for taking an agile approach to product development through all activities from defining an epic to writing acceptance criteria on a user story Lead the design and build of the product with engineering: work closely- as one agile team- across a product domain Work with cross-functional teams to plan work, understand dependencies, and minimize time to market and errors Oversee delivery and testing of product features (e.g., serving and enabling scrum teams) Measure outcomes & seek continuous improvements: evaluate and seek to improve existing practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize. Own and deliver on post-launch reviews and customer feedback, and incorporate this information into the future launch plans All About You and What You Need To Bring Several years of product management or new product development and experience shipping high-quality products. Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases Knowledge of IT infrastructure delivery and DevOps essential Knowledge of Hardware Security Modules (HSM) and cryptography is desirable Experience in Lean Product management Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), CI/CD, and modern DevOps based PDLC and SDLC. Technical savviness to enable TDD and BDD Track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment, and customer integration Proficient at grooming user stories, features, and epics, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog Data driven
ability to define measurable and SMART leading and lagging metrics Thrives in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts globally- across multiple regions. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them Ability to engage with numerous stakeholders on existing product capabilities and potential co-development opportunities or dependencies Ability to operate in an environment with ambiguity. Able to find people and information and to bring stakeholders into the product journey Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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 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: $119,000 - $190,000 USD
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Overview The Cryptographic Security Engineering team designs, builds, and supports service platforms that provide cryptographic, key management, and certificate management functions utilized by global Mastercard application teams. The candidate must be able to obtain a deep technical understanding of the applications/systems that they are working on and must be willing to dig in and ask challenging questions to make sure that plans are executed efficiently. Candidates should have a strong interest in Cryptographic Security and demonstrate strong technical leadership and ability to engage in out-of-the-box problem solving. The Role
What We Expect You To Do Day To Day Be customer obsessed: develop and provide the organization with a deep appreciation for customer needs, the ecosystem, and the key market dynamics Set the vision: define, establish, and continually refine a domain product vision & objectives, establish a product charter, and create and maintain a domain roadmap Define requirements: translate product requirements into clearly defined epics, features, and stories with clear and measurable outcomes, ensuring mutual understanding Manage strategic alignment across teams: working with stakeholders, ensure backlogs are properly prioritized and refined according to anticipated business value and measurable outcomes Agile Mindset: advocate for taking an agile approach to product development through all activities from defining an epic to writing acceptance criteria on a user story Lead the design and build of the product with engineering: work closely- as one agile team- across a product domain Work with cross-functional teams to plan work, understand dependencies, and minimize time to market and errors Oversee delivery and testing of product features (e.g., serving and enabling scrum teams) Measure outcomes & seek continuous improvements: evaluate and seek to improve existing practices, metrics, and roles to continually optimize. Own and deliver on post-launch reviews and customer feedback, and incorporate this information into the future launch plans All About You and What You Need To Bring Several years of product management or new product development and experience shipping high-quality products. Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases Knowledge of IT infrastructure delivery and DevOps essential Knowledge of Hardware Security Modules (HSM) and cryptography is desirable Experience in Lean Product management Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), CI/CD, and modern DevOps based PDLC and SDLC. Technical savviness to enable TDD and BDD Track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment, and customer integration Proficient at grooming user stories, features, and epics, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog Data driven
ability to define measurable and SMART leading and lagging metrics Thrives in a highly collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts globally- across multiple regions. Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them Ability to engage with numerous stakeholders on existing product capabilities and potential co-development opportunities or dependencies Ability to operate in an environment with ambiguity. Able to find people and information and to bring stakeholders into the product journey Improve team processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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 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: $119,000 - $190,000 USD