DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, DIGITAL ACCELERATION, DIGITAL LABS

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Title and Summary Director of Product Management, Digital Acceleration, Digital Labs Overview Nowadays, customers expect intuitive internet banking experiences.
To meet customer expectations, financial institutions are investing in upgrading their retail banking applications and launching new mobile apps with improved features.
As part of this movement, banks are rolling out improved digital experiences for use-cases, such as, digital eKYC, instant issuance, loyalty rewards, crypto trading, carbon tracking and donations amongst others.
This role is part of the Digital Labs & Digital Acceleration team, within Global Data and Services, and focuses on the successful documentation, standardization, execution, and scaling of a new Digital Frontend product for partner banks to deliver on these frictionless customer experiences in collaboration with approved regional Mastercard Engage partners.
This is an opportunity to be part of a highly motivated team focused on optimizing digital retail banking experiences across the globe.
We are looking for a top performer with a passion for product development and delivering on these best in class experiences whilst also playing a key role in projecting an exciting and inspiring product roadmap in partnership with our exceptional colleagues around the globe to scale up Mastercard’s Digital Frontend capabilities.
Role Liaise directly with regional and market teams to solicit and leverage feedback to build value propositions to ensure product market fit and relevancy of approach.
Define the product roadmap, versioning as well as feature-set backlog prioritization.  Research in-house/ out-source components to support decision-making on build vs partnership model, identification of vendors for 3rd party features / APIs to augment core internal offerings.
Using existing Mastercard product development methodologies, work directly with internal Mastercard core product and engineering teams to deliver last mile frontend UI/UX modules.
Working in collaboration with the Global Product Lead, develop and communicate the product requirements to our Mastercard Engage build partners engaging internal stakeholders to ensure best-in-class frontend technology is developed on time and within budget.
Estimate the design and development cost of versions including follow-on investment asks.
As needed, work with Technology, Legal, Regulatory and Pricing teams at Mastercard to trouble shoot issues and to explore opportunities to increase speed-to-market.
Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across regional Product, Customer Solution centre teams to monitor and improve the effective implementation of new frontend solutions in markets.
Identify, evaluate and prioritize business cases for new business and product opportunities, support the development of business cases for near- and mid-term opportunities and to drive Digital Frontend’s footprint and competitiveness.
Source external vendors (Design, Development) and prepare view of annual budget requirements.
Establish and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders to ensure successful project execution.
Steer the product creation as product owner via attending product sprints as key decision maker.
Reports to Global Product Lead.
All About You You have experience building technical products for financial institutions and in particular, retail banking customer facing products with a strong focus on consumer UI/UX.
Experience conducting market sizing, building business cases, developing go-to-market strategies, and creating pricing strategies a plus.
Demonstrated ability to multi-task, manage projects, establish priorities and self-motivate.
Proven ability to build and maintain strong, productive working relationships with internal stakeholders over cross-functional teams.
Experience working and building relationships with colleagues from multiple countries or markets.
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills, and ability to think strategically and translate concepts into clear, actionable strategies and tactics.
Superior communication skills (written, verbal and presentation).
Experience in business development, sales or consulting a plus.
Product competency in payment networks, technology, web services, architecture and API/SDKs, able to understand complex technical concepts, business needs, competitive offering and industry trends and apply them to real-world problems to deliver solutions.
Strong verbal communication, comfortable presenting, influencing, and negotiating at management level, able to shift gears for audiences from different business disciplines of varying technical ability.
Self-starter with a strong work ethic and highly organized, holding self and others to high standards, able to work autonomously and as part of a team, fostering a positive team culture Open and creative; comfortable with uncertainty in a changing/fast paced environment.
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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