Director, Product Development, Online Checkout

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
Director, Product Development, Online Checkout
Overview:
Mastercard Checkout Services focuses on making payments simpler, more efficient, and more secure. We are building highly scalable digital payment experiences through our products such as Click to Pay, Secure Card on File Tokenization and Token Authentication Service.
Our vision is to enable eliminate manual entry of cards online, and enable secure and seamless checkout experiences. This Director of Product Development, with a strong technical & strategic focus, will be part of Mastercard Checkout Services team, and shape the strategic roadmap and bring innovative solutions to life towards scaling Mastercard Checkout Services.
We are looking for a top performer with entrepreneurial spirit and experience in executing complex strategic & technology projects across multiple product teams, working with exceptional colleagues around the globe. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of product strategy, innovation, and solution design. If you're passionate about shaping the future of digital payments through smart, scalable architecture and creative solutioning, join us!
Role• Lead solutioning for product discovery initiatives, exploring new product features, use cases, trends, and market opportunities that will contribute to the evolution of long-term product strategy.• Support pre-sales and partnership engagements by providing feasibility assessments, solution designing, and work in co-innovation model. • Act as the technical bridge between external partners and internal product development teams-balancing user experience, feasibility, and system constraints.• Translate customer and partner needs into scalable product capabilities and architectural designs across a variety of use cases.• Define and document technical requirements in collaboration with Product Managers, Engineering, UX, and Legal & Privacy teams.• Stay current on industry trends, security protocols, and emerging technologies relevant to digital payments and authentication.
All About You• 9+ years in product strategy, product development, or solution architecture roles - digital payments experience is a plus.• Familiarity with online checkout, tokenization, authentication, and PCI-related topics.• Strong understanding of web technologies, APIs, cloud-native architecture, and service-oriented design. • Proven experience translating abstract product goals into concrete architecture and system behavior. Hands-on experience with developer documentation, wireframes, or prototypes a plus.• Proven record of cross-functional collaboration skills with a strong focus on working across business, engineering, UX, and research teams.• Strong Problem solving with ability to interact with, build consensus and influence a variety of internal and external business partners and customers.• Strong collaboration and communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.• Proven ability to work with extremely fast paced environment, meet deadlines, and collaborate effectively across teams.• Bachelor's degree required, Advanced degree preferred.
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Total Base Pay Range
178,000.00 - 284,000.00
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 [email protected] 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
New York City, New York: $178,000 - $284,000 USD