Job Description

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 Overview Mastercard Artificial Intelligence & Decision Product Enablement (AI & DPE), specifically the Decision Administration, is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to lead, guide and drive product implementation and platform modernization. AI & DPE Decision Admin enables Mastercard value-added products and services to promote a fast, secure, simple and intelligent transaction experience. As a member of AI & DPE, you?ll work on a world-class platform, powered by the most advanced Artificial Intelligence and decisioning models, to process hundreds of millions of transactions per day, in tens of milliseconds. What?s it all about and what we expect you to do day to day?

• Be customer obsessed: Develop & provide the organization with a deep appreciation for customer needs, the ecosystem, and the key market dynamics.
• Set the vision: Lead multiple teams in adoption of lean product management practices: Define, establish, and continually refine a domain product vision & objectives, establish a product charter, and create and maintain a domain roadmap.
• Define requirements: Translate product requirements into clearly defined epics, features, and stories with clear & measurable outcomes, ensuring mutual understanding.
• Manage strategic alignment across teams: Working with product owners with each scrum team, ensure backlogs are properly prioritized and refined according to anticipated business value & measurable outcomes.
• Agile Mindset: Advocate for taking an agile approach to product development through all activities from defining an epic to writing acceptance criteria on a user story.
• Lead the design and build of the product with engineering: Work closely- as one agile team- across a product domain.
• Work across cross functional teams: Work with cross functional teams to plan work, understand dependencies, and minimize time to market and errors.
• Oversee delivery and testing of product features (e.g., serving and enabling scrum teams)
• Report weekly, biweekly, monthly progress updates in concise, value-driven outlines for management and customers.

• 5+ years of product management or new product development and experience shipping high-quality products in the payments industry. Understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases.
• Experience in Lean Product management and Lean management principles and practices. Can deliver high quality technology products/services in a high growth environment where priorities shift rapidly.
• Comprehensive experience in agile delivery methodologies (scrum, Kanban, etc.), CI/CD and modern DevOps based PDLC and SDLC. Technical savviness to enable TDD and BDD.
• Track record of successful delivery of product features from design, development, deployment and customer integration.
• Superior Story, Feature and epic grooming skills, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog.
• Data driven ? ability to define measurable and SMART leading and lagging metrics for all backlog items to enable decisions and priority.
• Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting your platform products. This includes the business requirements and associated use cases, Mastercard customer