Lead Product Manager-Technical-2

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
Lead Product Manager-Technical-2
Overview:
The Mastercard Authentication Program Team is looking for a new Lead Product Manager-Technical (PM-T) to drive the delivery of authentication payment solutions in a fast-paced Scaled Agile environment. The ideal candidate is passionate about both understanding the customer & the business and working with technology teams to deliver aligned business solutions.
Role:
- Act as Product Owner across the Agile development teams, working closely with internal Squads to understand formulate and document business requirements, investigating and analyzing system functionality, and guiding the aligned Product owners.
- Using the Working Backwards method, decomposes business requirements and customer experiences as part of detailed solution development, into features and functions that drive the platform/product roadmap.
- Collaborate with your PM-T colleagues and Solution Architects to understand the impact on authentication payment platforms and agree the optimal functional solution for new product features.
- Support the POs to define user stories that capture the functional requirements identified to meet the agreed solution and take responsibility for accepting user stories on build completion on behalf of the PMT team.
- Produce internal & external-facing supporting documentation and specifications using standard templates and natural language.
- Act as a key SME, central reference and information source, providing guidance and assistance in the system product and functionality decision making process.
- Take an active role in the SAFe PI Planning process, preparing features for the planning event and working through these features with your team to plan their delivery.
All about you:
The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Demonstrate the ability to complete technical systems analysis and solutioning.
- Solid business analysis skills and knowledge are essential, i.e. the ability to take high level requirements and drill these down into detailed functional requirements under your own initiative.
- Demonstrate the ability to collaboratively design solutions that both enhance the product offering, and work within the design principles.
- Comfortable working at a detailed level with interface specifications & doing related data mappings to and from APIs.
- Solid documentation skills, with the ability to define, review and evaluate requirements and identify technical/functional solutions.
- Ability to work collaboratively with development and business stakeholders within an Agile team.
- Able to communicate effectively with both business & technical audiences.
- Payment authentication experience is a plus but not essential.
- Empowerment and accountability, demonstrating independent thinking and a collaboration mindset.
- Committed to deliver on time and to quality.
- Willingness to learn.
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.