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

Product Manager - Technical II

Technical Product Managers at Mastercard work to build and deliver on the Why and the What of our products. The role is primarily responsible for maximizing the value delivered by the team by ensuring the team backlog is aligned with customer and stakeholder needs.

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to oversee and refine the end-to-end transaction flows and integration strategies in Mastercard’s Authorization program. This role is critical in ensuring optimal performance and function through strategic planning, and effective communication, and data analysis.

Key Responsibilities:
· Articulate the business context and manage end-to-end transaction flows.
· Utilize data to support assumptions, develop business cases, and surface enhancement opportunities.
· Communicate effectively about cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless tech), microservice design, scalable platform design, API design, and distributed systems operations.
· Define and document entrance/exit criteria and drive elaboration with development squads to refine technical requirements.
· Understand and apply relevant technologies, CI/CD practices, and release methodologies.
· Communicate and influence effectively by building relationships across internal and external teams.
· Stay current with cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, integrating relevant components into the organization.
· Contribute to BizOps playbook documentation for release and support.
· Utilize logging and performance data to create a view of product performance and verify releases.

Qualifications
· A degree in Computer Science or a related field.
· Prior hands on software development experience preferred.
· Strong ability to analyze data.
· Expertise in cloud technologies, microservices, and distributed systems.
· Experience in managing product integration and transaction flows with a grasp of performance data analysis.
· Strong understanding of technologies, CI/CD, and release methodologies.
· Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence at various levels.
· Experience contributing to documentation and managing integration and release strategies.

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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $83,000 - $137,000 USD

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