Lead Product Manager- Technical

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 Be part of the Mastercard Technology Fraud Products team driving the evolution of Mastercard's Decision Management Platform, which serves as the core for multiple business solutions to combat fraud and validate cardholder identity. Our platform processes billions of transactions per day in tens of milliseconds using a multi-tiered, message-oriented approach for high performance and availability. Unlike traditional product roles focused on a single team, this position operates at the platform level, driving alignment, strategy, and execution across multiple engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-impact solutions. • Are you interested in building platform capabilities that operate at global scale? • Can you lead and align multiple teams toward a unified product vision and roadmap? • Do you consider yourself capable of bridging deep technical systems with business outcomes? Role • Own and drive the end-to-end product roadmap • Define product vision derived from business needs, market opportunities, and technology trends • Drive alignment across Engineering, Lead SDEs, Architects, TPMs, and stakeholders to ensure cohesive execution • Own and actively manage cross-team dependencies, and trade-offs • Provide deep technical product insight to ensure requirements align with system capabilities, scalability, and performance needs • Partner with engineering teams to influence system evolution, architectural direction, and platform scalability • Decompose complex platform initiatives into capabilities and deliverables spanning multiple teams • Resolve ambiguity and conflicts across teams to maintain delivery momentum • Ensure initiatives are delivered cohesively across teams with clear release goals and success criteria • Use data, research, runtime metrics, and customer insights to continuously refine priorities and roadmap direction • Act as the voice of owned product and accountable for product-level outcomes • Identify gaps and define new platform capabilities required to unlock business and customer value • Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform scalability and sustainability • Establish scalable mechanisms for roadmap planning, dependency management, and cross-team communication • Monitor platform performance, adoption, and operational health; incorporate learnings into future roadmap decisions • Identify risks that may impact delivery across teams and communicate effectively to leadership • Drive post-launch reviews and ensure continuous feedback loops into product planning. All About You Must Have skills • Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager working on platform products • Demonstrated ability to own and drive roadmaps across multiple teams or domains • Strong technical understanding of: ○ Distributed systems and microservices architectures ○ APIs (REST/gRPC), event-driven systems ○ High-scale, high-availability platforms • Ability to engage deeply with engineers and architects on system design, trade-offs, and constraints • Strong experience in cross-team alignment and dependency management in complex, matrixed organizations • Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills • Experience delivering large-scale, multi-team initiatives from concept to launch • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders • Experience working in Agile environments with multiple team ... (truncated, view full listing at source)