Manager, Product Management Job Listing at Mastercard in Pune, MH (Job ID R-249235)

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

Manager, Product Management Who is 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 and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Join us in unlocking infinite opportunity in Mastercard's Corporate Solutions organization!

Overview
In Corporate Solutions, we empower our customer's businesses to succeed through innovative, trusted payment solutions that deliver a seamless digital-first experience around the world. We are disrupting the industry by developing world-class travel and B2B solutions for our corporate clients around the globe.

The Mastercard Commercial Card Platform, Smart Data, enables issuers and end corporate clients to manage their commercial card programs. It is the single-entry point to features and functions such as virtual payments, data integrations, account management, transaction reconciliation and reporting.

About the Role
We are looking for a visionary Product Manager with expertise in Data Science and Business Intelligence (BI) to lead our future-oriented product strategy. This role goes beyond traditional reporting, focusing on crafting and executing a BI and data science roadmap that delivers market-differentiating analytics solutions to our B2B clients. If you have a proven record in data-driven product development and a passion for leveraging advanced analytics to unlock insights, we'd love to talk.

Responsibilities
• Define and Drive Product Vision: Develop and own a strategic roadmap for data science and BI offerings. Collaborate closely with leadership to align the product vision with broader company goals.
• Market Research & Competitive Analysis: Stay abreast of the latest BI and data science trends, tools, and methodologies. Conduct market analysis to identify opportunities and innovative use cases.
• Customer Engagement: Work with clients to understand pain points and insights needs, translating these into actionable product features. Emphasize personalized, actionable intelligence for B2B partners, such as issuers and corporate credit clients.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with engineering, data science, and design teams to ensure product delivery meets customer needs. Oversee product execution from ideation to launch, ensuring timely releases and high-quality features.
• Data Science Strategy: Collaborate with data science teams on advanced analytics solutions (e.g., trend analysis, predictive models, user-defined events (UDEs)). Help the team develop data models and algorithms that provide forward-looking insights.
• BI Expertise: Guide the development of BI tools, including self-service and collaborative reporting, trend dashboards, and industry-standard metrics that cater to both high-level summaries and deep dives.
• Operational Excellence: Collaborate on CI/CD pipelines for continuous improvement and support product quality through automation, health checks, and monitoring.
• Drive tangible data-driven business outcomes at the product level, manage to a quantified scorecard continuously monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators and optimizing product performance
• Interpret and apply program vision and strategy to product strategy and roadmap for the Products they manage, clearly communicating it to key stakeholders on an ongoing basis
• Leverage the Mastercard “Studio” framework to manage the delivery of ongoing innovation and enhancements to focus Products
• Drive a user-centric culture of data driven, test and learn experimentation, continuously assessing and enhancing the Product user experience. Partner with Delivery and Servicing teams (GCC, CTS, Biz Ops) to ensure that Products are easy to deploy and deliver a great experience during operation
• Understand the Software Development Lifecycle and manage any barriers or obstacles to deliver capabilities on time
• Partner with cross-functional teams in the development of business requirements to achieve Product objectives

Qualifications
• Education: Bachelors in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Business); Master's preferred.
• Experience: 10+ years as a Product Manager with a focus on BI and data science. Experience in B2B, fintech, or SaaS industries is highly desirable.
• Technical Expertise: Proficient in data science and BI platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, and familiarity with SQL, Python, and data engineering workflows.
• Analytical Skills: Strong quantitative skills with the ability to interpret and build upon statistical analyses, data modelling, and analytics.
• Communication & Leadership: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present insights and recommendations to executive stakeholders. Experience working cross-functionally with engineering, analytics, and design teams.
• Experience working in payment industry is strongly encouraged.
• Can deliver high quality products/services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly
• Proven track record of data driven decision making and applying continuous improvement and test and learn methodologies across teams
• Comprehensive experience in Agile delivery methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Can communicate to executives, peers, and staff with impact, eloquence, and authenticity
• Innovative Mindset: A proactive and growth-oriented mindset to drive innovation and stay ahead of industry trends.

Why Join Us?
• Impact: Lead transformative projects that directly impact the business intelligence and data science landscape for top-tier clients.
• Growth: Join a forward-thinking team with ample opportunities for professional development.
• Culture: Be part of a dynamic, inclusive work environment that values creativity, diversity, and collaboration.

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.

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