Director, Security Platform Product Management

Mastercard•Arlington, VA

9d•$156,000 - $305,000•Onsite

About The Position

Mastercard's Security Solutions Organization is advancing a next-generation enterprise decisioning platform and related platform capabilities, including foundational data and decisioning services that support fraud, identity, authentication, cyber, financial crime, scams, and future risk domains. The Director, Platform Product Management will provide hands-on product management for priority enterprise platform workstreams. This role translates approved platform direction into documented product scope, user-backed requirements, prioritized capabilities, adoption plans, and measurable execution outcomes.

Requirements

Experience in product management, platform product management, enterprise technology, data platforms, decisioning platforms, or related product roles.
Proven ability to translate complex product direction into documented requirements, execution plans, prioritization inputs, adoption plans, and success measures.
Experience partnering with engineering, architecture, data, and platform teams on APIs, data flows, integration patterns, dependencies, constraints, and reuse opportunities.
Strong ability to write clear requirements, acceptance criteria, workflow narratives, use cases, and feature definitions.
Technical acumen to understand architecture trade-offs, data flows, platform reuse, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements.
Ability to lead through influence in highly matrixed, global organizations.
Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Business, Technology, Product Management, Engineering, Strategy, Operations, or a related discipline.

Nice To Haves

Experience in payments, fraud, identity, authentication, cybersecurity, risk management, financial crimes, scams, AI-enabled decisioning, or enterprise decision platforms.
Experience translating product strategy into requirements, prioritization rationale, implementation context, and decision-ready trade-off materials.
Familiarity with agile planning, roadmapping tools, product governance, and structured requirements management.
Experience operating in a global enterprise environment with distributed stakeholders and competing product priorities.
MBA or advanced degree preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Translate approved platform direction into documented product scope, value propositions, execution plans, and outcome measures for assigned workstreams.
Convert platform direction into clear capabilities, use cases, requirements, acceptance criteria, and success measures.
Build a deep understanding of user workflows through interviews, working sessions, and stakeholder engagement.
Prepare product recommendations on scope, sequencing, trade-offs, and capability definition.
Ensure execution details connect to platform reuse, decisioning workload integration, adoption goals, and business value.
Interview users and stakeholders to understand workflows, pain points, adoption barriers, data needs, and integration requirements.
Develop use cases, product requirements, acceptance criteria, workflow narratives, and prioritization rationale.
Clarify functional and non-functional requirements, including data inputs, outputs, latency, availability, performance, entitlement, and dependencies.
Maintain traceability from user needs to capabilities, roadmap priorities, adoption milestones, and success metrics.
Validate requirements continuously as capabilities move from concept through build, launch, and adoption.
Support roadmap development by organizing demand, clarifying trade-offs, and preparing prioritization inputs.
Coordinate roadmap inputs across product areas so shared platform capabilities are reflected in execution planning.
Identify dependencies, sequencing risks, and reuse opportunities across assigned platform workstreams.
Provide clear views of demand, commitments, risks, decisions needed, and upcoming roadmap choices.
Create transparency on scope, deferrals, dependencies, capacity constraints, and execution status.
Partner with engineering, architecture, data, and technical teams to document trade-offs, implementation constraints, and reuse opportunities.
Work directly with delivery teams during solution design and build to clarify product intent, resolve requirement ambiguity, and support execution against user outcomes.
Support integration of platform capabilities with decisioning workloads, including data, workflow, service, and consumption patterns.
Prepare trade-off recommendations that balance product value, technical feasibility, speed, scalability, and enterprise platform principles.
Maintain clear product documentation, decision inputs, handoffs, and delivery context across assigned workstreams.
Coordinate adoption planning, including target users, activation milestones, enablement needs, feedback loops, and success measures.

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
16 weeks of new parent leave
up to 20 days of bereavement leave
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
25 days of vacation time
5 personal days
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
deferred compensation for eligible roles
fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
eligibility for tuition reimbursement