Mastercard
payments
PrincipalProductManager-Technical
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“Principal Product Manager - Technical at Mastercard. Skills: Product Strategy & Vision, Technical Product Leadership, Roadmap & Execution Ownership, Stakeholder & Customer Engagement, Leadership & Impact. Define and own the long‑term product vision and strategy for switching and authorization platforms.. Translate complex customer, business, and ecosystem needs into clear product roadmaps and priorities.”
What You'll Achieve.
Define clear outcomes and success metrics for epics, features, and user stories.
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Significant experience in Technical Product Management for large-scale, distributed, high-availability systems., understanding of real-time platforms, APIs, integration patterns, and modern software delivery practices., Proven ability to lead complex initiatives and influence senior stakeholders across a matrixed organization., Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Nice to Have
experience or familiarity with payment cryptographic and security services, EMV and authorization cryptographic flows such as ARQC, ARPC, and related issuer validation mechanisms, Account Authentication Value (AAV) and e-commerce authentication constructs, PIN-based services, including PIN validation and PIN translation, Tokenization and digital enablement services, MDES (Mastercard Digital Enablement Service), Magnetic Stripe services and legacy transaction processing concepts, Working knowledge of how cryptographic services integrate with authorization and switching platforms in a real-time payment environment.
What You'll Do.
Define and own the long‑term product vision and strategy for switching and authorization platforms.
Translate complex customer
and ecosystem needs into clear product roadmaps and priorities.
Identify and drive new platform capabilities that improve transaction reliability
Make data‑driven prioritization decisions balancing customer value
Serve as the product authority for real‑time authorization and switching systems.
Partner closely with engineering and architecture teams to influence design decisions while maintaining product accountability.
Define clear product requirements
including functional behavior and non‑functional expectations such as availability
Ensure operational readiness
and observability are integral to product delivery.
Own and manage multi‑year product roadmaps
including near‑term delivery and long‑term modernization initiatives.
and user stories with clear outcomes and success metrics.
Evaluate trade‑offs between new capabilities
technical sustainability
and operational risk.
Use in‑market performance data and platform metrics to continuously refine priorities.
Represent the voice of customers
and internal stakeholders in product decisions.
Collaborate across product
and business teams to drive alignment and execution.
Communicate complex technical and product concepts clearly to executive and non‑technical audiences.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with engineering and architecture teams to influence design decisions while maintaining product accountability.; Collaborate across product, engineering, operations, risk, and business teams to drive alignment and execution.
Communication Scope
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.; Communicate complex technical and product concepts clearly to executive and non‑technical audiences.
Process & Methodology
Own and manage multi‑year product roadmaps, including near‑term delivery and long‑term modernization initiatives., Define epics, features, and user stories with clear outcomes and success metrics.
Full Job Description
**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** ### Principal Product Manager - Technical ### About 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 help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Role Summary We are looking for a Principal Product Manager – Technical to lead product strategy and execution for global, real‑time switching and authorization platforms. In this role, you will own the vision, roadmap, and delivery of mission‑critical transaction processing capabilities that operate at massive scale with strict requirements for availability, latency, resiliency, and correctness. You will work closely with engineering, architecture, operations, and business leaders to deliver platforms that support billions of transactions and enable reliable, secure payment experiences worldwide. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad influence across teams, regions, and portfolios. What You’ll Do Product Strategy & Vision * Define and own the long‑term product vision and strategy for switching and authorization platforms. * Translate complex customer, business, and ecosystem needs into clear product roadmaps and priorities. * Identify and drive new platform c
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