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
Product Management, Summer Internship Program 2026 - Lisbon, Portugal
Who is Mastercard?
At Mastercard, we’re powering economies and empowering people, building a sustainable economy where everyone prospers. Our Product teams transform bold ideas into innovative solutions that address complex global challenges—ranging from digital currency and cybersecurity to financial inclusion. They develop strategies that not only meet business goals but also anticipate customer needs, all while driving positive social impact. Through collaboration, continuous learning, and a commitment to building a more inclusive and sustainable world, our Product professionals are redefining how people and businesses interact with payments globally.
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.
Make an impact as an Associate Product Specialist Summer Intern
As an Associate Product Specialist Summer Intern, you will be assigned to a business unit where you will learn, develop new skills, and gain valuable on the job experience. You will have the chance to gain an understanding of how Mastercard develops business cases for new product opportunities, develops scalable customer-centric products, and sees those projects through to go-to-market. We are looking for passionate and talented interns, who share our vision for developing scalable customer-centric products with agility and excellence.
The Mastercard Intern Program is a comprehensive 10-week program where students will gain hands on real work-life skills while having fun and contributing to a global company. As an intern, you will be challenged with completing projects that will enhance your skills as well as contribute to the department’s goals and objectives.
Program Components:
Impactful assignments that drive business results
Networking sessions and leadership speaker series
Volunteer and team building experiences
As an Associate Product Specialist Intern, you may:
Partner with your team to manage tasks across the product life cycle
Assist in establishing and monitoring progress against key milestones in the development and implementation process
Work with various product lines and technologies
Provide competitive landscape, trends, consumer insights, research and end-to-end program analytics
Engage with the business and engineering teams to track progress and identify dependencies and risks
Contribute to inspiring product visions, derived from market and customer needs, and evolving technology trends
Identify and measure product and business metrics to increase adoption and understand customers’ ongoing needs
Conduct iterative experiments to identify and prioritize key features for inclusion with product releases and product roadmap
Project management of strategic initiatives
Work on potential product areas such as: Analytics, APIs, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptocurrency/Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Loyalty, Marketing, Open Banking, or Payments (e-commerce, in store, etc.).
Projects other Associate Product Specialist Interns have worked on:
Antonia worked on a product that helps customers assess their cyber risk. Her team needed to understand the performance of new features, so she built a dashboard tool to analyze user engagement and inform future product improvements.
Thomas developed a competitive analysis of a business intelligence product to understand market offerings and how Mastercard’s product compared. His analysis helped the team identify which features to accelerate on their roadmap.
Sarah worked with stakeholders and customers to understand the analytics needed for our application, then developed the roadmap for incorporating a 3rd-party data analytics tool into the app experience.
All About You
Undergraduate degree with expected graduation date between December 2027 – July 2028
Available to work full-time from June through August (2026) in the country where the position is located.
Outstanding record of academic achievement
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Excel, PPT)
Interested in payment processing, APIs and system integrations, data analytics (SQL/BI tools), agile product development, and emerging technologies including AI, cybersecurity, blockchain, and open banking.
High energy level; flexible, adaptive and strong collaborator
Well planned, organized & structured to manage time & work effectively
Application Process
Submit your application
If eligible, receive invitation for a digital interview; this includes answering pre-recorded interview questions that advance your application
If recommended to advance, receive invitation for final round interview(s); you will have the opportunity to meet with us virtually to learn more about our business and culture
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.