Senior Specialist, Product Management

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 Overview The Open Finance Data Access team is responsible for delivering secure, reliable, and scalable access to consumer‑permissioned financial data across the Mastercard Open Finance platform. The team partners closely with engineering, platform, and external data providers to enable high‑quality integrations that meet customer, regulatory, and ecosystem expectations. Role The Product Owner, Open Finance – Data Access drives the delivery and ongoing quality of Mastercard’s Open Finance data connectivity capabilities. This role owns backlog prioritization and sprint execution for the Data Access team, translating platform strategy and business needs into clearly defined, actionable work for delivery teams. The Product Owner leads agile ceremonies, manages cross‑functional dependencies, and oversees the execution of integrations and data access initiatives with financial institutions and ecosystem partners. A key responsibility of the role is ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of data provider connectivity by identifying issues, prioritizing remediation and optimization efforts, and guiding teams to deliver against Mastercard Open Finance standards and customer expectations. All About You Strong experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in agile development environments Proven ability to prioritize and manage sprint backlogs while balancing delivery speed, quality, and long‑term platform health Experience leading integrations, APIs, or platform connectivity initiatives, preferably in financial services, data, or payments ecosystems Comfortable coordinating cross‑functional teams, facilitating agile ceremonies, and driving delivery accountability Analytical and detail‑oriented, with a focus on monitoring, improving, and maintaining the quality and reliability of data integrations Effective communicator able to work with engineering teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners 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.