Manager, Product Development

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 Manager, Product Development Overview =================================== - Within P&E, the Network Products team oversees Mastercard’s Next Gen Network initiatives (such as Network Access, Next Edge, Transaction Switching, and Network Solutions). - The vision for the Network Solutions product development team is to delight our customers and increase our revenues by enhancing our network’s capabilities, functions & reach. - Network Solutions program leverages Mastercard’s current switch, next gen switch, and Mastercard Edge Platform (“edge everywhere, run anywhere”) to build new services and generate new sources of revenues. - This position will deliver for the Network Solutions program in partnership with the cross-functional global stakeholders: Product Strategy, Product Management, Engineering, Customer delivery, Support chain community. About the Role: =================================== - Integrates business applications at an enterprise level using third-party middleware or by designing and implementing custom interfaces and mapping for those interfaces - Leads efforts to define application integration requirements, responsible for deployment, planning and execution of multi-tier application integration initiatives. - Demonstrate end-to-end ownership and partnership with Product Management and Engineering teams to design, develop, test and deliver scalable products for commercialization, ensuring the build effort concludes on time and budget, enabling a go-to-market plan focused on ease of delivery and great customer experience. -Own epic, feature, and story elaboration for assigned initiatives with guidance from team members as needed. Create epics and features within Network Solutions’ templates. Detailed story writing with functional, non-functional, and test acceptance criteria. - Ensure the integrity and consistency of the delivery of the vision across all products: capabilities, scalability, performance, speed-to-market, readiness for growth, re-usability. - Detail the epics, participate to the definition of the flows and interfaces for the product, perform joint solution design with Product Architecture and Engineering teams, structure the roadmap and propose phasing of the delivery, prioritize the backlog, define the acceptance criteria, participate to the demo, accept the features. - Produce the artifacts needed by our internal customers with consistency, quality, and care: sequence diagrams, capability training decks for product management, DevZone API articles, content to be inserted in product guide. - Demonstrate project management capabilities to elaborate a joint delivery plan with multiple squads participating in the delivery, from switch and edge. - Apply logic, reasoning, and sound decision-making skills to elaborate solutions with Engineering teams. - Elaborate the concepts and achieve clarity of thought about what will ultimately be built. - Fully understand the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting the products, including business requirements, use cases, UX, back-office systems, technical stack, interfaces and associated data flows, dependent applications/services, runtime operations (i.e. trouble management/associated support strategies), and maintenance. - Ensure replication of knowledge, share workload on initiatives, ensure mutual back-up, help the team scale, learn, and expand its scope. Major Accountabilities ========= ... (truncated, view full listing at source)