Senior Specialist, Product Management - Commercial Connect API

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 Senior Specialist, Product Management - Commercial Connect API Role Overview The Commercial Connect API is a modern platform enabling unified access to Mastercard’s commercial payment capabilities, including virtual cards, payment flows, entity operations, controls, data attributes, and reporting. As a Product Owner, you will execute the product vision defined by senior leadership by converting strategy into detailed functional requirements and driving delivery with engineering. This role is central to ensuring clarity, consistency, and high quality execution across a broad and technically complex API surface. ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities Product Execution & Requirements • Translate leadership’s product direction into structured Epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and workflow definitions. • Ensure requirements are complete, technically sound, and aligned to intended business outcomes. • Keep the backlog healthy, prioritized, and ready for development at all times. Engineering Collaboration • Work hand in hand with engineering to break down requirements, clarify edge cases, and support architectural feasibility. • Participate in refinement, sprint planning, and delivery ceremonies to maintain alignment and unblock development. • Validate delivered functionality through acceptance testing and close partnership with QA. Cross Team Alignment & Communication • Coordinate with commercialization, program managers, integrators, and customer facing teams to support testing, onboarding, and release activities. • Provide internal stakeholders and delivery partners with clear product explanations, workflows, and API behavior guidance. • Ensure documentation, change notes, and reference materials reflect current product capabilities. Quality, Risk & Release Support • Help ensure releases meet expected quality, performance, and reliability standards. • Identify risks, surface dependencies early, and support mitigation planning. • Assist in readiness for MTF and production releases, working with engineering and operations teams. ________________________________________ Qualifications • 3+ years in product ownership, business analysis, or API-focused product delivery. • Ability to translate complex workflows into clear, testable requirements. • Comfortable partnering deeply with engineering in Agile environments. • Strong analytical thinking, written clarity, and stakeholder communication skills. • Experience with APIs, data structures, or payments is a plus but not required. ________________________________________ Success Measures • Backlog quality and readiness enable predictable engineering delivery. • Features meet acceptance criteria with minimal rework or ambiguity. • Releases are stable, well tested, and aligned to intended product direction. • Cross functional teams view the PO as a reliable, detail oriented execution partner. • Execution consistently supports leadership’s broader roadmap. 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 an ... (truncated, view full listing at source)