Lead Product Manager - Technical

Mastercard • O’Fallon, MO

106d • $119,000 - $190,000

About The Position

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Product Manager – Technical to join our AI & Decisioning Platform Enablement (AI & DPE) team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technology and product strategy, and who can translate complex technical capabilities into scalable business solutions. Within AI & DPE, Product Managers Technical (PM-Ts) act as trusted advisors, partnering with market-facing product teams to enable their business goals through scalable AI and decisioning solutions. PM-Ts integrate expertise from architects, engineering PM-Ts, and technical program managers to define and execute actionable roadmaps that align with enterprise and product priorities. Beyond enablement and platform development, this role plays a critical part in articulating and promoting AI & DPE’s platform capabilities to product owners, integration teams, and business leadership. Success requires driving consistent messaging, ensuring alignment across initiatives, and providing visibility into AI & DPE’s contributions to Mastercard’s broader product strategy. This is a hybrid position based in O’Fallon, MO, requiring three days per week onsite.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a product manager or product leader with a focus on technical platforms, ideally within AI, data, or decisioning domains.
• Strong understanding of modern technology practices (APIs, microservices, cloud, data platforms) and ability to engage with engineers at a detailed level.
• Experience aligning technical capabilities with business objectives to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Interest in emerging technologies, particularly AI, decisioning, and data platforms; direct experience with AI & DPE solutions preferred.
• Ability to clearly articulate complex ideas to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Strong leadership skills with experience coaching and mentoring technical product managers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the main liaison for AI & DPE market-facing products, business integration, and other business stakeholders.
• Actively elicit feedback, manage escalations, ensure transparency, and maintain clear communications with stakeholders.
• Bridge AI & DPE business stakeholders with DMP technology teams to align on technology/platform roadmaps, internal product roadmaps, release plans, and prioritization outcomes.
• Partner with product and technology teams to deliver measurable business value and ensure AI & DPE is recognized as a strategic, value-add partner.
• Collaborate with market-facing product, business integration, and leadership teams to maintain visibility into product roadmaps and 2–3 years of demand.
• Facilitate collaboration between product, business integration, and AI & DPE technology teams to explore emerging strategic objectives and innovative ideas.
• Define, elaborate, and prioritize ideas and initiatives, including feasibility analysis, gating/approvals, business case development, and enforcement of data quality standards.
• Oversee work intake processes, including Level of Effort, Rough Order of Magnitude, and full business case estimation with Architects, Engineering, UX, and TPMs.
• Create and refine epics, build Aha! solution delivery roadmaps, support scope alignment, and partner with TPMs on project planning, PI slotting, and delivery oversight.
• Track delivery progress, manage risks, ensure value realization through demos, UAT, and feedback loops, and adjust program roadmap as needed for schedule or scope changes.
• Represent market-facing product in PI planning, participate in product councils, and support product development processes to ensure alignment with business objectives.

Benefits

• Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• Flexible spending account and health savings account
• Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
• 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees