VP Product Management – Market Intelligence program co-founder – Services – B&MI

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

VP Product Management – Market Intelligence program co-founder – Services – B&MI

Job Description
VP Product Management – Market Intelligence program co-founder – Services – B&MI
Overview
MasterCard Services enables customers across industries and geographies to make smarter decisions and reach better outcomes with a tailored portfolio of solutions beyond the transaction.
• We harness the power of real-time, anonymized, aggregated transaction data; powerful software platforms; and a wealth of expertise
• We empower customers to make better data-driven decisions by unlocking a holistic view of consumer behavior beyond their four walls and distilling actionable insights from data
• We work with financial institutions, retailers, telecommunications organizations, travel companies, and more
The MasterCard Services global product team is seeking a Vice President as product management co-founder of Market Intelligence program.
Market Intelligence north star:
• Market insights to understand payments and make decisions, automating/democratizing consulting.
• It also serves as one single access point and unified experience to x-sell and/or host other self-service business intelligence products
Key products part of Market Intelligence are Market Trends and Cards Lab, and the ownership of Mastercard Business Intelligence platform.
Role
• Overall
o Bears ultimate accountability for product success across all dimensions (strategic, CX, financial, GTM, achievement of KPIs, etc.)
o Shares accountability for application quality and developer productivity
• Customer and Market
o Identifies/understands customer, regulatory and market need to be solved for and ensures the engineering teams know what they need
o Assesses relevant issues with respect to addressable market opportunity, go to market approach, competitive landscape and time to market
o Co-creates value proposition to address customer need, establishes ‘North Star’
• Product Management Responsibilities
o Advises on value prop to maximize target outcomes while minimizing cost and complexity, ensures cost-effective operations
o Articulates product vision and strategy, maintains clear and achievable Roadmap
o Leads development of value proposition to address customer need, establishes ‘North Stars’
o Apportions and manages resources in line with full scope of objectives (including run stage and long-term product health and modernization)
o Oversees product managers and ensures quality of product management disciplines
o Aligns with MA new product development processes & tools
o Partners with Finance to develop pro forma financials, investment requirements, business outcomes/KPIs and expected ROI
o Actively engages with engineering team to develop and iterate outcomes, consistent with and as a champion of agile work practices
• People and Collaboration
o Develops and “raises the bar” on quality of product management talent, both within team and across broader product management community
o Engages relevant partners (design, engineering, delivery, sales, etc.) in assessing feasibility of and improving upon product value proposition
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All About You
• Experience with Product P&L management
• Strong project management skills
• Experience effectively leading teams
• Desire to roll up sleeves and make direct contributions
• Strong collaboration and ability to partner effectively with virtual, fast-paced teams
• Interest in technology and desire to apply technology to solve problems
• Strong communicator
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with senior executives
• Knowledge of the financial services industry, ideally including both retail banking and payments
• Agile product management experience with ability to influence user experience and engineer’s roadmap
• Vendor’s management experience
• Previous top consulting background strongly preferred
• 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.