Manager, Product and Engineering Strategy | Mount Vernon, NY

Detailed Information

  • Location: Purchase, NY

  • Company: Mastercard

Product and Engineering (P&E) builds and runs the products that Mastercard provides to its customers globally covering Cards and Digital payments, Product propositions for Commercial Large Market and SME businesses, Open Banking, Disbursement & Remittances, Real Time Payments, Acceptance etc.

while constantly innovating with new offerings. Who are we? Product and Engineering (P&E) Strategy is a unique cross-product team, reporting directly to the office of the Chief Product Officer, that works across all individual product houses and corporate functions to connect individual product strategies, identify new areas for growth, define clear strategies and articulate action plans for P&E

to execute, remain competitive and win in new business ventures. P&E Strategy is divided into four focus areas/pillars - Execute, Transform, Accelerate (Inorganic Growth) and Provoke (Strategic Projects and Thought Leadership).

The last mentioned being the home for this role. What are the nuances of this role? First point to note is that P&E Strategy operates as a unit with team members remaining flexible and ready to contribute across any of the four pillars and execute against priority business problems and projects. This role will be biased towards Provoke (Strategic Projects and Thought Leadership function of P&E Strategy), where the focus is to form, manage and deliver key strategic

projects P&E undertakes that span multiple products/functions and producing thought leadership that provokes action from Mastercard to use its unparalleled platform to have an impact for its customers and beyond.

Responsibilities: - Scanning market trends/developments and informing the product strategy agenda through research, analysis, market insights etc. - Partnering and managing relationships with product leaders and their teams to help them drive their execution agenda and deliver on their objectives; - Contributing strategic thinking and delivering key payment product strategy projects for different product lines, typically owning a specific portion of the project and/or work stream; - Conducting special, ad-hoc studies for to aid leadership in developing and/or framing their solutions; - Participating and attending leadership meetings, and contribute to senior level discussions; - Creating storylines to convey key messages and taking key stakeholder groups on a transformation journey; - Identifying strengths/weaknesses/opportunities in the business and collaborating to deliver strategies that stretch multiple product lines and multiple organization functions; - Formulating points of views, drafting thought provokers and publishing deliverables to instigate action; - Structuring and managing strategic initiatives undertaken across the P&E Strategy team e.

g. thought leadership schedules and product strategy flight plans. Experience: - Relevant Bachelor's Degree (e. g. economics, business, engineering, math, etc. ); - Enterprise strategy, management consulting or MBA degree strongly preferred; - Creative background in journalism (publication of ideas), communications or other design discipline (product, service, experience or other) are of particular interest; - Direct exposure to one of the following areas: financial services, payments, financial technology, e-commerce or related areas a plus; - Business background in covering technology investments, business transformation, financial services, payments, financial technology, e-commerce are also of interest.

Skills: - Strong quantitative/analytical and problem solving skills; - Strong written and verbal communication skills; - Strong executive-level presentations skills; - Strong Power Point and Excel skills; - Strong product management and development skills will be beneficial; - Strong execution skills and ability to bring strategy and plan to life with partners will be beneficial; - Strong research skills and ability to succinctly summarize findings; - Strong ability to strategically frame challenges and opportunities.

You: - Strong intellectual curiosity and humble; - Highly motivated with strong work ethic and ability to act with urgency and flexibility to drive results; - Comfortable with managing ambiguity and prioritize multiple work assignment; - Detail oriented with excellent communication (both written and oral) and interpersonal skills. PDN-9ac78343-f3f7-476c-8cf9-63c8203b59d9

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