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
Lead Product Manager – Technical
Who is Mastercard?
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.
Technology at Mastercard
What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.
And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.
Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what’s next.
Payment Enablement Program
The Payment Enablement program provides a suite of value-added switching services to each qualified transaction processed by Mastercard, increasing the security, accessibility, and simplicity of data for participating customers. We are an agile development organization with teams distributed globally across technology hubs in the U.S. and India. We are looking for a Lead Product Manager – Technical focused on Strategy.
Role & Responsibilities
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' cultural values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Lead Product Manager - Technical focused on Strategy, you are expected to perform the following strategic responsibilities:
• Develops and articulates the long-term strategic vision for payment enablement and value-added services, ensuring alignment with Mastercard’s broader business objectives.
• Leads cross-functional strategic planning sessions to identify market trends, competitive threats, and opportunities for innovation or differentiation within the platform.
• Drives the creation and communication of strategic roadmaps, ensuring clear prioritization of initiatives based on business impact, customer value, and market needs.
• Owns and maintains Initiatives and Epics in AHA
• Partners with business leaders, product teams, and external stakeholders to define and validate the strategic direction of the platform and related products.
• Evaluates and champions new business models, partnerships, and go-to-market strategies to expand Mastercard’s reach and relevance in the digital payments ecosystem.
• Monitors industry developments, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies; synthesizes insights to inform strategic recommendations and product positioning.
• Identifies and mitigates strategic risks that could impact platform growth or adoption, providing guidance to senior leadership on critical decisions.
• Facilitates executive-level presentations and strategy updates, ensuring stakeholders are aligned and informed on progress, pivots, and achievements.
• Coordinates and supports organizational change initiatives, ensuring teams are equipped and engaged to deliver on strategic priorities.
• Mentors team members in strategic thinking, business analysis, and leadership skills
All About You
• Passionate about shaping the future of payments and driving impactful business strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to think big-picture and connect market insights to actionable strategies.
• Experience leading strategic initiatives in technology, payments, or financial services, preferably with a platform or ecosystem focus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to synthesize complex data and trends into clear recommendations.
• Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders and building consensus across diverse teams.
• Exceptional communication skills; able to convey strategy and vision to executives, partners, and technical teams with clarity and credibility.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments; adaptable and resilient in driving change.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with complete independence and autonomy
• Proven track record of data driven decision making and applying continuous improvement methodologies across your team
• Can debate the product merits with business teams, architects, engineers, and designers to make the right trade-off decisions
• Experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.)
• Bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, engineering, computer science, or a related field preferred, or equivalent work experience
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $130,000 - $221,000 USD