VP, Product Management - Technical Job Listing at Mastercard in O'Fallon, MO (Job ID R-217208)

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Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

VP, Product Management - Technical Overview
The Decision Management Program (DMP) is an internal product suite that enables intelligent decisions for market facing products. This program provides sophisticated, industry-leading intelligence with a range of capabilities that structure and apply complex business logic across the payment journey and beyond to inform and accelerate decisions at scale. This is achieved by leveraging supercomputing capabilities, AI technologies, a streaming big data cluster, high speed in-memory data caching, APIs, & UIs to enrich data and provide real-time decisions. The VP, Product Management - Technical on Mastercard's DMP team will manage roadmaps spanning across multiple internal products within the DMP suite to provide solutions that enhance products & capabilities offered by Mastercard business units (Cyber & Intelligence/Product & Engineering/Data & Services/MA Technology). This person will be responsible for managing a global team as well as staying hands-on with day-to-day execution operations.

We are looking for a VP, Product Management - Technical to join our St. Louis office.

Role:
The VP, Program Manager - Technical (PM-T) will drive successfully program outcomes by:

•Providing technical platform product management thought leadership for the organization
•Owning the long-term (3-5 years) internal product suite vision and complete platform portfolio
•Driving alignment to trade-off decisions necessary to achieve long-term strategic outcomes across multiple senior leadership levels
•Developing a culture of test and learn experimentation and innovation to solve core business and end customer needs in the platform product domain
•Building and cultivating strong internal customer relationships to establish engagement models for your team and ensure delivery is in alignment with product partner expectations
•Improving profitability margins for externally facing products
•Leading a global organization defining the structures and operating mechanisms that optimize the skills, execution methodology, and outcomes achieve by the program
•Driving a data driven and continuous learning culture across your organization and the program it supports
•Ensuring team culture consistently demonstrates alignment with leadership principles; visibly ties department decisions to leadership principles and tenets
•Defining and building your own scorecard to continuously monitor and analyze key performance indicators and use this data to drive incremental improvements across engineering, architecture, and dependency partners
•Inspecting rigorously the platform products and execution metrics of your PM-Ts using your own tech depth and business acumen to assess risks and continuously raising the delivery bar
•Strengthening and developing your managers and your PM-T staff while continuously raising the bar on performance, technical depth, program management results, and people management as you hire new PM-T's
•Managing escalations
•Demonstrating and differentiating the performance and leadership bar across multiple levels and apply to hiring decisions
•Planning and advocating for department resources


About You:
• Demonstrated success at leading global product outcomes across internal and externally facing product suites
• Demonstrated success at providing product thought leadership for programs with complex technical stacks including business rules engines, high-speed caching capabilities, big data lakes, and AI technologies
• Adept at building consensus and leading resolution of contentious roadmap tradeoff decisions across senior leadership levels
• Expert in agile & waterfall development methodologies, including managing multiple product delivery roadmaps simultaneously
• Thrives working with highly technical products in a fast-paced delivery environment
• Ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional Data Science, Development teams, and the core product business teams
• Demonstrated success at Improve program processes that accelerate delivery, drive innovation, lower costs, and improve quality across multiple program dimensions
• Passionate about customer delight In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

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