Director of Product Management
Mastercard
New York, United States Posted September 27, 2026
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Salary Range
$179,000 - $318,000
Job Description
Join our team as the Director of Product Management, where you will lead the development of innovative Open Finance payment solutions. You will shape portfolio strategy, guide product development, and engage with customers and the market. This role requires strong leadership skills, a strategic mindset, and a deep understanding of AI/ML product development.
- Definir y ejecutar la visión, estrategia, hoja de ruta y prioridades de inversión para la cartera de productos, equilibrando la entrega a corto plazo con la innovación y el crecimiento a largo plazo.
- Liderar, coachar y desarrollar un equipo de gerentes de producto, estableciendo una clara propiedad, prioridades y ritmos operativos, mientras se fomenta la responsabilidad, la colaboración y el crecimiento profesional.
- Guiar los productos desde el desarrollo del concepto 0-1 a través de la entrega iterativa, el lanzamiento y la escala, asegurando requisitos claros, priorización disciplinada y una fuerte asociación con los equipos de ingeniería, ciencia de datos, diseño, operaciones y comercialización.
- Customer Focused: Understands and champions customer needs while balancing usability, risk, feasibility, and commercial impact
- Excellent executive communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to create alignment across complex global organizations
- Strategic and Decisive: Creates clarity from ambiguity, makes thoughtful trade-offs, and connects portfolio choices to customer and business outcomes
- Demonstrated success defining strategy and launching and scaling cloud-based or API-enabled products, preferably in payments, fintech, open banking, fraud, or risk
- Ability to navigate technical concepts, data-driven products, APIs, payment flows, risk decisioning, and platform dependencies
- Execution Focused: Establishes clear priorities, owners, and milestones and works with urgency to move complex initiatives forward
- People Leader: Builds an inclusive, high-performing team through coaching, candid feedback, empowerment, and accountability
- Collaborative and Influential: Leads effectively across functions and levels, including when authority is shared or indirect
- Strong understanding of AI/ML product development and experience partnering with Data Science teams to translate model capabilities into customer value
- Curious and Innovative: Asks the right questions, embraces experimentation, and identifies new ways to apply data and technology to payment challenges
- Strong customer orientation and experience engaging financial institutions, fintechs, merchants, or other enterprise clients
- Experience operating in Agile product development environments and using product planning and delivery tools such as Confluence and JIRA
- Solid product management experience, including experience leading product managers or multidisciplinary product teams
- Experience taking products from 0–1 while also managing established products with revenue, customer, reliability, and performance commitments
- Resilient: Maintains composure and momentum amid evolving requirements, competing priorities, and tight deadlines
- Proven commercial judgment, including experience with market analysis, pricing, business cases, go-to-market planning, and product profitability
- Knowledge of open banking, ACH payments, card payments, fraud, data privacy, and security practices is preferred
Required Skills
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