Specialist, Product Management

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
Specialist, Product Management
Specialist, Digital Acceptance Solutions Product Manager / Payments Product Specialist
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.
Overview:
The Specialist, Digital Acceptance Solutions will join the European Core Product team, which is responsible for advancing Mastercard's acceptance solutions across the Europe region.
The team works with merchants, PSPs, and channel partners across the payments ecosystem by delivering state-of-the-art acceptance solutions. We are a highly cross-functional team focused on expanding Mastercard's footprint in the acceptance solutions space and delivering best-in-class payment experiences for our customers.
The Specialist, Digital Acceptance Solutions will play an important role in supporting the evolution and execution of our acceptance product strategy, including scaling solutions such as Tokenization and Click to Pay, in line with our vision to become 100% digital by 2030.
The role requires strong coordination across regional and global product teams, the sales organization, including Digital Partnerships, as well as merchants, PSPs, and channel partners to ensure effective execution of strategy and revenue growth.
We are looking for a motivated team player who is eager to learn, intellectually curious, and excited to grow in a collaborative, high-performing environment.
This role is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys solving problems, working across teams, and building experience in digital payments and product management.
Role:• Help monitor, review, and report on key partner performance, and contribute to addressing underperformance in collaboration with commercialization, global product, and partner account teams.• Support to create and track the opportunity pipeline at product and solution level.• Assist with partner meeting preparation and presentation development, including tailored materials for key client engagements.• Support the development of solution proposals and designs for acceptance solutions partners, including merchants, PSPs, and channel partners.• Contribute with GTM strategy workstreams, including discovery and solution development workshops with customers, and help design best-in-class consumer experiences in collaboration with Product teams.• Support operational and strategic initiatives within acceptance solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams on activities such as performance analysis, optimization, and the development of key materials (for example, benefits guides and product matrices) as needed.• Track performance against defined team KPIs and assist with reporting on progress and outcomes.• Work with regional and global acceptance product and partnership teams to support the review and execution of regional priorities.• Build a strong understanding of product features to help identify and implement solutions in partnership with the Europe Product Management team.• Support and coordinate the creation of partner case studies, monitor performance, and help quantify opportunities across priority partner areas.
All About You:• A collaborative team player who is eager to learn, proactive, and comfortable building confidence while working through ambiguity.• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, contribute to workstreams, and follow through on deliverables.• Ability to build effective cross-functional relationships and collaborate with teams across the organization.• A positive attitude, curiosity, and willingness to learn.• Interest in payments, acceptance solutions, card products, and/or the fintech landscape.• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with solid analytical thinking.• Knowledge of, or interest in, acceptance solutions is a strong plus.• Early career experience in a multinational environment is helpful but not required.• Fluency in English is required; an additional European language is a plus.• Bachelor's degree required.
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.