Job Title:

Senior Specialist, Product Management

Overview:

Product Manager - Technical

• Providing Innovative, Secure, and Reliable Switching Solutions is the lifeblood of Mastercard Core Products, we are currently seeking a passionate, collaborative, and experienced Product Manager -Technical to join the Open Banking team.
• Are you a collaborator capable of communicating effectively with Business and IT stakeholders across all organizational levels?
• Are you an innovator who embraces, adopts, and studies the latest technology to solve challenging business problems?
• Are you a leader who inspires the team to think “out of the box” and effectively communicates across all levels of the organization?
• If this describes you, Mastercard wants to talk to you about joining our squad.

About The Role

• Provide technical analysis of product hardware/software to ensure that business and functional requirements can be met
• Provide technical support to Business Owners during implementation of new products/services
• Provide subject matter expertise for support escalations
• Prioritize and identify cross application/system enhancements
• Determine development impacts. Work with developers and users to ensure accuracy of enhancements
• Lead review sessions of technical requirements
• Manage defect resolution process

About You

• Advanced skills in analysis and requirement definition
• Advanced knowledge/experience with Software development lifecycle
• Strong knowledge of agile development practices (especially Scrum and / or Kanban), methodologies and tools (e.g., Jira, Rally).
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with strong relationship, collaborative and organization skills
• High degree of initiative, self-motivation, and willingness to take on challenging opportunities

Skills That Are a Plus

• 3+ years of proven success leading highly technical (artificial intelligence, machine learning, or computer vision) products
• Extensive hands-on experience with developing technical roadmaps, story outlines, writing user stories, grooming product backlogs, and coordinating/prioritizing conflicting requirements in a fast paced, ever changing environment.
• Software Development experience: Microservices architecture, REST APIs, JavaScript, Node, Java, etc.
• First-hand experience developing against APIs and being an end-user of Developer-focused solutions.
• Strong technical orientation - Familiarity with coding - you don’t need to be a CS major, but you should have a strong quantitative and technical background and be able to navigate your way through the more complex technical requirements.
• Excellent communication skills with engineers, designers as well as leadership, both technical and non-technical.
• Excellent ability to distill user needs into actionable requirements.
• Provide technical expertise and recommendations to address specific business needs.
• Identify and escalate (when needed) risks and issues. Work with the development teams to develop mitigation strategies, communicate the impacts to leadership.
• Understand that security is a foundational piece of development that requires constant attention.
• Experienced in event driven systems (Apache Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ etc.)

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems or equivalent combination of relevant experience and education