Manager, Product Management - Developer Experience Strategy

Mastercard•Purchase, NY

About The Position

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 Management - Developer Experience Strategy Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Services within Mastercard is responsible for acquiring, engaging, and retaining customers by managing fraud and risk, enhancing cybersecurity, and improving the digital payments experience. We provide value-added services and leverage expertise, data-driven insights, and execution Overview The Global Open Finance and Developer Experience team is responsible for developing and building the future of open finance and a developer-first approach that propels innovation. The Manager, Developer Experience Product Management (Strategy) will be responsible for supporting the development of our strategy & commercialization efforts for Mastercard APIs, while helping to accelerate developer-first culture across the enterprise. This role is responsible for driving the vision of our developer platform, ensuring it fully reflects and unlocks the benefits and growth that APIs can deliver across Mastercard. • Do you enjoy working on complex business problems? • Are you adept at communicating complex ideas effectively? • Have you ever successfully influenced others on your strategic point of view? • Are you motivated by a dynamic, changing business environment and its opportunities and challenges? • Are you excited about the potential of APIs? Role We are looking for an energetic professional who is willing to jump into an ever-evolving team and hit the ground running. The Manager will have a proven track record of working effectively in a team to drive to successful outcomes, exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills, and strong written and verbal communication skills. More specifically, the candidate will be responsible for:

Requirements

Strong business and financial intuition; Consulting experience at a top firm a plus
Excellent organizational skills
Initiative-taker, results driven and brings a dynamic and forward‑moving mindset
Track record of accomplishments impact in professional, academic, and/or personal setting
Experience managing a team, and influencing teammates towards an objective
Ability to execute against multiple initiatives and excel in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.
Ability to structure ambiguous problems, break down complex asks into tangible steps
Ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
Experience working on a cross-functional team/project to come up with the best solution
Strong problem-solving analytical skills and comfortable using data to support thinking/ recommendations
Be a good collaborator and listener, influencer and able to navigate a matrixed organization and /reporting structure. Be able to navigate ambiguity with ease.
Strong communication skills, executive presentations in both written/ oral communications

Nice To Haves

Huge plus if you have expertise in working with API based products and solutions

Responsibilities

Leading projects or work streams related to API growth and commercialization, including developing executive-ready presentations, generating research insights, undertaking complex analysis to support recommendations
Bringing competitor insights & market trends to help identify opportunities to better meet customer or channel needs
Building compelling business cases and gaining buy-in to ensure execution
End to end strategic narrative shaping (i.e., Identifying key issues, defining problem statements, evaluating options and formulating tactical action plans)
Leading KPI tracking and measuring impact of efforts
Accelerating API enablement (e.g., new product development, education)

Benefits

Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: 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; and many more.
Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

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